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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Halkett, John

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​HALKETT, Bart. (Commander, 1837.)
Sir John Halkett, born in Jan. 1805, is eldest son of Admiral of the Blue Sir Peter Halkett, Bart., G.C.H. (who commanded the Circe frigate in the action off Camperdown, and died in Oct. 1839), by Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Todd, Esq. One of his uncles, John Halkett, Esq., was late Governor of the Bahamas, and First Commissioner of West India Accounts; and a second. Sir Alex. Halkett, K.C.H., a Lieut.-General in the Army.
This officer passed his examination in 1825; was made Lieutenant, 20 Oct. 1827, into the Challenger frigate, Capt. Joseph Harrison; served next, from Nov. 1828 until Dec. 1829, in the Ariadne 28, commanded in the Atlantic by Capt. Fred. Marryat; and, on 15 Feb. 1836, was appointed to the Melville 74, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father, on the West India station. He has not been employed since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 4 Aug. 1837.
Sir John Halkett, a Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Fife, married, in April, 1831, Amelia Hood, daughter of Colonel Conway, by whom he has issue. Agents – Collier and Snee.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hackett, John

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​HACKETT. (Captain, 1838. h-p., 16; h-p., 32.)
John Hackett entered the Navy, 16 Dec. 1799, as A.B., on board the Raisonnable 64, Capts. Chas. Boyles, John Dilkes, and Wm. Hotham, in which ship, after participating, as Midshipman, in the battle of Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801, he cruized on the Downs station until Jan. 1805. On next joining, in May, 1806, the Argo 44, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, he proceeded to the coast of Africa, and thence to the West Indies, where, in March, 1808, having removed to the Cerberus 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, he witnessed the capture of the islands of Marie-galante and Desirade. Soon after his return to England Mr. Hackett, on 26 Sept. in the latter year, was promoted, from a Master’s Mateship in the Semiramis 36, Capt. Wm. Granger, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Ned Elven brig, Capt. Rich. Jas. Lawrence O’Connor, with whom he served, in the North Sea and Baltic, until March, 1809. Obtaining a similar appointment, 1 May following, in the Renard sloop, Capt. Hew Steuart, he had an opportunity of attending the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren; but it was not until 11 May, 1811, that, after a re-employment, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Charger brig, and Caesar 80, commanded in the Channel and off Lisbon by Lieut. Jas. Askey and Capt. Wm. Granger, as also in the Barfleur 98, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, he succeeded in procuring his first Admiralty commission. He then served for a very brief period in the Diadem 64, Capt. John Phillimore, and was next appointed, 18 Aug. 1812, and 16 Jan. 1814, to the Success troop-ship, Capt. Thos. Barclay, and Epervier of 18 guns and 117 men, Capt. Rich. Walter Wales, employed on the North America and West India station. The latter vessel, on 29 April, 1814, had the misfortune, after a desperate engagement of an hour, in which, besides being fearfully damaged, she sustained a loss of 23 men killed and wounded, to be taken by the U.S. sloop Peacock of 22 guns and 185 picked seamen, 2 only of whom were hurt. Among the Epervier’s wounded on the occasion was Mr. Hackett, who, about the middle of the action, had his left arm shattered, and received a severe splinter-wound in the hip, but whose gallantry would hardly suffer him to be carried below. He was ultimately, at the expiration of a short servitude in the Gloucester 74, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and Henry Stuart, promoted to the rank of Commander by commission bearing date 2 Sept. 1828. His last appointment was, 4 Nov. 1833, to the Jaseur 16, which sloop he paid off, on her return from the Mediterranean, in the spring of 1837. His services, as connected, during a portion of that period, with the civil war in Spain, were rewarded with the first ​class of the order of Charles III. He attained his present rank 28 June, 1838.
Capt. Hackett is in the receipt of a pension for his wounds of 182l. 10s. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hale, Jeffrey

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​HALE. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Jeffrey Hale entered the Navy 9 May, 1815 : passed his examination in 1822; and obtained his commission 8 June, 1826. He has not been since employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Halford, Charles

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​HALFORD. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
Charles Halford entered the Navy, 13 Jan. 1801, as A.B., on board the Caesar 80, Capts. Jahleel Brenton and Hugh Downman, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, under whom, in July following, he fought as Midshipman in the actions off Algeciras and Cadiz. In Nov. 1802, after having been for a short time transferred to the Hercule 74, Capt. Solomon Ferris, lying at Portsmouth, he rejoined Capt. Brenton, as Master’s Mate, in La Minerve of 48 guns; and on 2 July, 1803, he had the misfortune to be on board that frigate when she took the ground under the batteries of Cherbourg, and was compelled, in spite of a desperate and sanguinary resistance, to strike her colours. He was accordingly detained a prisoner in France until May, 1811, at which period, having been deprived of his parole, he succeeded in effecting his escape from the citadel of Verdun, where he had been placed in close and rigorous confinement. He was promoted to the rank he now holds 21 March, 1812; and from 15 of the ensuing April until 2 Aug. 1815, was employed in the Valiant 74, bearing the flag of the late Sir Manley Dixon on the North Sea and American stations. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Haggard, Henry Vachell

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​HAGGARD. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Henry Vachell Haggard passed his examination 6 Sept. 1841; and served as Mate, on the Home and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley, Sappho 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Hope, and Winchester 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Josceline Percy. He was promoted, 8 June, 1846, to a Lieutenancy in the Crocodile 8, commanded on particular service by Capt. Gower Lowe; with whom, since 18 of the following Nov., he has been employed on board the Resistance troop-ship.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Halahan, Thomas

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​HALAHAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Halahan entered the Navy, at the commencement of 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Redwing 18, Capts. Thos. Ussher, Edw. Augustus Down, and Sir John Gordon Sinclair, stationed in the Mediterranean, where, during a servitude of six years in that vessel, he figured, part of the time as Midshipman, in a variety of brilliant operations. He was subsequently employed with Capt. Ussher and Sir John Poo Beresford, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the Undaunted 38, and Duncan 74, on the same and the Brazilian stations. He has not been afloat since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 27 Feb. 1815. Agent J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hadaway, Cumberland

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​HADAWAY. (Commander, 1846.)
Cumberland Hadaway entered the Navy 14 April, 1810; passed his examination in 1816; and was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 5 Feb. 1828, in the Heron 18, Capts. John Alex. Duntze and Jas. Burney, stationed in South America, whence he returned home and was paid off in March, 1830. His subsequent appointments were – 27 Oct. 1840, to the Impregnable 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest, of which ship, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, he served for a considerable time as First-Lieutenant – 25 Sept. 1843, in the latter capacity, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Jones on the coast of Africa, where he continued until the early part of 1845 – and, 20 Oct. 1845, again as Senior, to the Albion 90, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, forming part of the Channel squadron. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846; and is now on half-pay.
# A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems/A Double Ballad of August

A DOUBLE BALLAD OF AUGUST.
(1884)
All Afric, winged with death and fire, Pants in our pleasant English air. Each blade of grass is tense as wire, And all the wood's loose trembling hair Stark in the broad and breathless glare Of hours whose touch wastes herb and tree. This bright sharp death shines everywhere; Life yearns for solace toward the sea.
Earth seems a corpse upon the pyre;
The sun, a scourge for slaves to bear. All power to fear, all keen desire,
Lies dead as dreams of days that were
Before the new-born world lay bare
In heaven's wide eye, whereunder we
Lie breathless till the season spare:
Life yearns for solace toward the sea.
Fierce hours, with ravening fangs that tire
On spirit and sense, divide and share
The throbs of thoughts that scarce respire,
The throes of dreams that scarce forbear One mute immitigable prayer
For cold perpetual sleep to be
Shed snowlike on the sense of care.
Life yearns for solace toward the sea.
The dust of ways where men suspire
Seems even the dust of death's dim lair.
But though the feverish days be dire
The sea-wind rears and cheers its fair
Blithe broods of babes that here and there
Make the sands laugh and glow for glee With gladder flowers than gardens wear.
Life yearns for solace toward the sea.
The music dies not off the lyre
That lets no soul alive despair.
Sleep strikes not dumb the breathless choir
Of waves whose note bids sorrow spare.
As glad they sound, as fast they fare,
As when fate's word first set them free
And gave them light and night to wear.
Life yearns for solace toward the sea.
For there, though night and day conspire
To compass round with toil and snare
And changeless whirl of change, whose gyre
Draws all things deathwards unaware,
The spirit of life they scourge and scare,
Wild waves that follow on waves that flee
Laugh, knowing that yet, though earth despair,
Life yearns for solace toward the sea.
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# A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems/A Ballad at Parting

A BALLAD AT PARTING.
Sea to sea that clasps and fosters England, uttering evermore
Song eterne and praise immortal of the indomitable shore,
Lifts aloud her constant heart up, south to north and east to west,
Here in speech that shames all music, there in thunder-throated roar,
Chiming concord out of discord, waking rapture out of rest.
All her ways are lovely, all her works and symbols are divine,
Yet shall man love best what first bade leap his heart and bend his knee;
Yet where first his whole soul worshipped shall his soul set up her shrine:
Nor may love not know the lovelier, fair as both beheld may be,
Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea.
Though their chant bear all one burden, as ere man was born it bore;
Though the burden be diviner than the songs all souls adore; Yet may love not choose but choose between them which to love the best.
Me the sea my nursing-mother, me the Channel green and hoar,
Holds at heart more fast than all things, bares for me the goodlier breast,
Lifts for me the lordlier love-song, bids for me more sunlight shine,
Sounds for me the stormier trumpet of the sweeter strain to me.
So the broad pale Thames is loved not like the tawny springs of Tyne:
Choice is clear between them for the soul whose vision holds in fee
Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea.
Choice is clear, but dear is either; nor has either not in store
Many a likeness, many a written sign of spirit-searching lore,
Whence the soul takes fire of sweet remembrance, magnified and blest.
Thought of songs whose flame-winged feet have trod the unfooted water-floor
When the lord of all the living lords of souls bade speed their quest;
Soft live sound like children's babble down the rippling sand's incline,
Or the lovely song that loves them, hailed with thankful prayer and plea;
These are parcels of the harvest here whose gathered sheaves are mine, Garnered now, but sown and reaped where winds make wild with wrath or glee
Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea.
Song, thy name is freedom, seeing thy strength was born of breeze and brine.
Fare now forth and fear no fortune: such a seal is set on thee.
Joy begat and memory bare thee, seeing in spirit a twofold sign,
Even the sign of those thy fosters, each as thou from all time free,
Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea.
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# A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems/A Ballad of Sark

Previously printed in The English Illustrated Magazine, August 1884, p. 693.
A BALLAD OF SARK.
High beyond the granite portal arched across
Like the gateway of some godlike giant's hold
Sweep and swell the billowy breasts of moor and moss
East and westward, and the dell their slopes enfold
Basks in purple, glows in green, exults in gold.
Glens that know the dove and fells that hear the lark
Fill with joy the rapturous island, as an ark
Full of spicery wrought from herb and flower and tree.
None would dream that grief even here may disembark
On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea.
Rocks emblazoned like the mid shield's royal boss
Take the sun with all their blossom broad and bold.
None would dream that all this moorland's glow and gloss
Could be dark as tombs that strike the spirit acold
Even in eyes that opened here, and here behold
Now no sun relume from hope's belated spark
Any comfort, nor may ears of mourners hark
Though the ripe woods ring with golden-throated glee,
While the soul lies shattered, like a stranded bark
On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea.
Death and doom are they whose crested triumphs toss
On the proud plumed waves whence mourning notes are tolled.
Wail of perfect woe and moan for utter loss
Raise the bride-song through the graveyard on the wold
Where the bride-bed keeps the bridegroom fast in mould,
Where the bride, with death for priest and doom for clerk,
Hears for choir the throats of waves like wolves that bark,
Sore anhungered, off the drear Eperquerie,
Fain to spoil the strongholds of the strength of Sark
On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea.
Prince of storm and tempest, lord whose ways are dark,
Wind whose wings are spread for flight that none may mark,
Lightly dies the joy that lives by grace of thee.
Love through thee lies bleeding, hope lies cold and stark,
On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea.
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# A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems

First published in 1884, this transcription is of the second edition, published in the same year. A number of the works it contains had previously been published in periodicals. Where this is the case, the details are included for each work based on A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1912), by Thomas James Wise, in 2 volumes.
A
MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY
AND OTHER POEMS
LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET
A
MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
SECOND EDITION
London CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1884
[All rights reserved]
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems/A Ballad of Appeal

A BALLAD OF APPEAL
to christina g. rossetti
Song wakes with every wakening year
From hearts of birds that only feel
Brief spring's deciduous flower-time near:
And song more strong to help or heal
Shall silence worse than winter seal?
From love-lit thought's remurmuring cave
The notes that rippled, wave on wave,
Were clear as love, as faith were strong;
And all souls blessed the soul that gave
Sweet water from the well of song.
All hearts bore fruit of joy to hear,
All eyes felt mist upon them steal
For joy's sake, trembling toward a tear,
When, loud as marriage-bells that peal,
Or flutelike soft, or keen like steel,
Sprang the sheer music; sharp or grave,
We heard the drift of winds that drave,
And saw, swept round by ghosts in throng,
Dark rocks, that yielded, where they clave,
Sweet water from the well of song.
Blithe verse made all the dim sense clear
That smiles of babbling babes conceal:
Prayer's perfect heart spake here: and here
Rose notes of blameless woe and weal,
More soft than this poor song's appeal.
Where orchards bask, where cornfields wave,
They dropped like rains that cleanse and lave,
And scattered all the year along,
Like dewfall on an April grave,
Sweet water from the well of song.
Ballad, go bear our prayer, and crave
Pardon, because thy lowlier stave
Can do this plea no right, but wrong.
Ask nought beside thy pardon, save
Sweet water from the well of song.
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# A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems/A Solitude

Previously printed, under the tentative title "Near Cromer", in Home Chimes, January 2nd, 1884, p. 8.
A SOLITUDE.
Sea beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand,
Here ivory smooth, here cloven and ridged with flow
Of channelled waters soft as rain or snow,
Stretch their lone length at ease beneath the bland
Grey gleam of skies whose smile on wave and strand
Shines weary like a man's who smiles to know
That now no dream can mock his faith with show,
Nor cloud for him seem living sea or land.
Is there an end at all of all this waste,
These crumbling cliffs defeatured and defaced, These ruinous heights of sea-sapped walls that slide
Seaward with all their banks of bleak blown flowers
Glad yet of life, ere yet their hope subside
Beneath the coil of dull dense waves and hours?
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# A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems/A New-Year Ode/Notes

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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Simkin, Thomas Allen

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​SIMKIN. (Retired Commander, 1841. f-p., 16; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Allen Simkin is brother of Lieut. John Simkin, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Oct. 1800, as A.B., on board the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. Sir Thos. Troubridge, flag-ship off Brest of Earl St. Vincent and Hon. Wm. Cornwallis; and from March, 1802, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 7 Nov. 1806, was employed as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Jan. 1801) in the Alarm 32 and Amazon 38, both commanded by the present Sir Wm. Parker. In the Alarm he conveyed a body of German troops from Lymington to Holland; and in the Amazon he brought the Duke of Kent home from Gibraltar, assisted at the capture of the privateers Le Félix of 16 guns and 96 men and Principe de la Paz of 24 guns, 4 swivels, and 160 men, joined in the very spirited pursuit of a French frigate into Toulon, accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in search of the combined squadrons of France and Spain, and took part, 13 March, 1806, in a long running fight, which terminated in the surrender to the London 98 and Amazon, whose loss extended to 4 men killed and 5 wounded, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. His last appointments afloat were – 19 Nov. 1806, for three years, to the Glatton 50, Capts. Thos. Seccombe, Henry Hope, John Clavell, and Geo. Miller Bligh, in the Mediterranean – 11 Dec. 1809, to the Gibraltar 80, Capt. Robt. Plampin, in Basque Roads – and in Feb. 1812 and June, 1813, to the Muros 12, Capt. Jas. Aberdour, and Rosamond 20, Capts. Robt. Campbell and Edw. Stopford, both on the Newfoundland station, whence he returned in Jan. 1815. From 16 May, 1835, until the early part of 1837 he held command of a station in the Coast Guard. He accepted his present rank 12 Oct. 1841.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Simmons, Chestney

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​SIMMONS. (Lieut., 1819. f-p., 27; h-p., 9.)
Chestney Simmons entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Snipe 14, commanded at first by Lieuts. Chas. Champion and Nathaniel Ratsey, and next by Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis. In that vessel he served on the Baltic and Home stations until Dec. 1814 – the last 14 months in the capacity of Midshipman. He joined next the Plover 18, Capt. John Skekel, at Newfoundland; passed his examination 18 Sept. 1816; and as a reward for his exertions in the Coast Blockade, as Mate of the Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Aug. 1819. Since 17 Dec. 1828 he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
He married, 10 July, 1840, Julia Frances Stanley, daughter of the Rev. Rich. Blackett De Chair, of Sheperdswell, co. Kent.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Simonds, Richard Smith

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​SIMONDS. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Richard Smith Simonds was born 9 July, 1788, at Islington, co. Middlesex.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 June, 1803, as a Volunteer, on board the Defence 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, in which ship, after serving for about 15 months in the North Sea, he proceeded off Cadiz, then pursued the combined squadrons of France and Spain to the West Indies, and, on his return, fought at Trafalgar. In Dec. 1805 he removed as Midshipman (a rating he had attained about May, 1804,) to the Sparrow 16, Capt. Hon. Wm. Pakenham, lying at Sheerness. He next, in May, 1806, joined the Antelope 50, Capts. Henry Bazely and Edw. Galwey; under the former of whom we find him employed in the Downs in escorting the East India trade to and from St. Helena, and in conveying the Earl of Caledon and suite to the Cape of Good Hope. Under Capt. Galwey he was for some time stationed off Oporto, where he was daily in the habit of landing, and witnessed the arrival of the first detachment of British troops. In April, 1809, he was transferred to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship in the Channel of Admirals Lord Gambier, Fras. Pickmore, and Sir Harry Burrard Neale; by the last mentioned of whom (having passed his examination 4 Oct. 1809) he was nominated, 27 Aug. 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the Courageux 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield. While on the books of the Caledonia he was lent, with the greater part of the crew, to the Spencer 74, for the purpose of accompanying the expedition to the Scheldt, where he took an active part in all the operations, and was constantly detached on boat-service. On rejoining the Caledonia, in which ship, deducting four months passed on board the Courageux, he continued until May, 1811, he united in the defence of Cadiz, assisted in carrying powder to Fort Matagorda, and was once very nearly taken prisoner. He contributed also to the cutting out of two brigs under a battery on the coast of France; on which occasion the Marines spiked the enemy’s guns and brought off a small brass field-piece. Besides being otherwise actively employed in her boats, he aided in the Caledonia in preventing the escape of four French frigates from Rochefort. In the course of 1811-12 he was received in succession on board the Christian VII. 80, Impregnable 98, and Victory 100, bearing the flags, off Flushing and in the Baltic, of Admirals Wm. Young and Sir Jas. Saumarez. From July in the latter year until promoted by the Admiralty to his present rank, 20 Nov. following, he served as Acting-Lieutenant with the flotilla under Capt. Hew Steuart at the defence of Riga, and accompanied during that period a highly-successful expedition against the French and Prussians at Mittau, on the river Aa. His last appointment was, for a few months in 1813, to the York 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, attached to the Flushing fleet.