Category: History - British
_Oh hear! Oh hear! Across the sullen tide, Across the echoing dome horizon-wide, What pulse of fear Beats with tremendous boom? What call of instant doom, With thunder-stroke of terror and of pride, With urgency that may not be denied, Reverberates upon the heart’s own drum Co...
_But some came not with break of light, Nor looked upon the saffron dawn; They keep the watch of endless night, On the soft breast of Ocean borne. O waking England, rise and pra...
4. CHAPTER IV_Oh, have you ever seen a foundered horse, His great heart broken by a task too great For his endurance, but unbroken yet His spirit--striving to complete his course, Failing at...
2. CHAPTER II_Sleep on, O Drake, sleep well, In days not wholly dire! Grenville, whom nought could quell, Unquenched is still thy fire. And thou that hadst no peer, Nelson, thou needst not f...
6. CHAPTER VIEnough, perhaps, has already been written to show how intimately the Cunard Company was bound up with every phase, not only of our mercantile, but our naval effort at sea; how i...
3. CHAPTER IIIWe have confined ourselves so far to the adventures of the Cunard vessels that were used in the early stages of the war for purely combatant purposes. They were, as has been see...
1. CHAPTER I_Oh hear! Oh hear! Across the sullen tide, Across the echoing dome horizon-wide, What pulse of fear Beats with tremendous boom? What call of instant doom, With thunder-stroke of...