Contents of the Foremost Trail by Cicely Fox Smith
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, UK, (c) 1899,
One of Miss Fox Smith's earliest publications it lacks the polish of much of her later works.
There is a strong theme of patriotic fervour running through many of the poems included here and the key to this would seem to lie in 2 (probably connected) causes.
In 1897, when Miss Fox Smith would have been 15 or 16 Britain was celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It is assumed (by this writer) that Miss Fox Smith would have gone to London to see some of the festivities and whilst there to have visited the Museum of the Royal United Service Institution (see the poem of that name). The exhibits, taken with the general atmosphere in the capital, cannot fail to have affected a young girl from the provinces. The outpouring of verse that followed seem to confirm the hypothesis.
A Cavalry Soldier [p26-27] oldpoetry.com/
A Coral Island [p68-69] oldpoetry.com/
A Worshipper [p84] oldpoetry.com/
Early Spring [p78-79] oldpoetry.com/
Empire Makers [p39-40] oldpoetry.com/
For England [p47-48] oldpoetry.com/
Franklin [p49] oldpoetry.com/
Good Hope [p45-46] oldpoetry.com/
Her majesty's Forces [p19-21] oldpoetry.com/
His Going Forth Is From The End Of Heaven [p87] oldpoetry.com/
In The Museum of the Royal United Service Institution [p6-7] oldpoetry.com/
Lords Of The Sea [13-14] oldpoetry.com/
Man The Conqueror [p28-29] oldpoetry.com/
Our Distant Kin [p56] oldpoetry.com/
Out and Away [p50-51] oldpoetry.com/
Pro Patria [p8-9] oldpoetry.com/
Roving Men [p10-12] oldpoetry.com/
Song For St. George's Day [p 55] oldpoetry.com/
Songs Of The City [p72-75] oldpoetry.com/
Sons Of The English [p15-16] oldpoetry.com/
St Paul's [p3-5] oldpoetry.com/
Stand Firm [p24-25] oldpoetry.com/
The Bugle [p41-42] oldpoetry.com/
The Charge of the 21st Lancers [p43-44] oldpoetry.com/
The Clouds [p82-83] oldpoetry.com/
The Foremost Trail [p1-2] oldpoetry.com/
The Four Buglers [p70-71] oldpoetry.com/
The King's Kraal [p17-18] oldpoetry.com/
The Lament Of Maeldune [p76-77] oldpoetry.com/
The Last Trek [p34-35] oldpoetry.com/
The Loss Of The Birkenhead [p30-31] oldpoetry.com/
The Maids Of The Northern Lights [p80-81] oldpoetry.com/
The Men Who May Not Sleep [p36-38] oldpoetry.com/
The Path Of The English [p22-23] oldpoetry.com/
The Rhyme Of The Four Strong Men [p59-67] oldpoetry.com/
The Rock [p85-86] oldpoetry.com/
The Roll Call [p32-33] oldpoetry.com/
The Ship of State [p52] oldpoetry.com/
True Blue (song for Music) [p53-54] oldpoetry.com/
Westminster Tower [p57-58] oldpoetry.com/
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