Arthur Conan Doyle Brown Poems
- 1. A Voyage
1909
Breathing the stale and stuffy air
Of office or consulting room,
... - 2. The Bay Horse
Squire wants the bay horse,
For it is the best.
Squire holds the mortgage;
Where's the interest?
... - 3. The Home-coming Of The 'eurydice'
[Lost, with her crew of three hundred boys, on the last day of her voyage, March 23, 1876. She foundered off Portsmouth, from which town many of the boys came.]
Up with the royals that top the white spread of her!
Press her and dress her, and drive through the foam;
... - 4. The Old Gray Fox
We started from the Valley Pride,
And Farnham way we went.
We waited at the cover-side,
But never found a scent.
... - 5. Empire Builders
Captain Temple, D.S.O.,
With his banjo and retriever.
"Rough, I know, on poor old Flo,
But, by Jove! I couldn't leave her."
... - 6. The Passing
It was the hour of dawn,
When the heart beats thin and small,
The window glimmered grey,
Framed in a shadow wall.
... - 7. The Farnshire Cup
Christopher Davis was up upon Mavis
And Sammy MacGregor on Flo,
Jo Chauncy rode Spider, the rankest outsider,
But HE'D make a wooden horse go.
... - 8. The Wanderer
With acknowledgment to my friend Sir A. Quiller-Couch.
'Twas in the shadowy gloaming
Of a cold and wet March day,
... - 9. A Lay Of The Links
It's up and away from our work to-day,
For the breeze sweeps over the down;
And it's hey for a game where the gorse blossoms flame,
And the bracken is bronzing to brown.
...
