The Old Fiddle (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
By Chinese Charley's junk-store, by the Panama Saloon,Where 'longshore loafers lean and spit, at morning, night, and noon, —All among ...
Poems about bombay (21 Poems)
Nitrates (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
All alone I went a-walking by the London Docks one day,For to see the ships discharging in the basins where ...
Mandalay 1 (Billy Bennett Poems)
By an old whitewashed PagodaLooking Eastwards to the WestThere's a Burma girl, from BermondseySits in a sparrow's nest.She's as pretty ...
Bumboats (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
I've had a whirl at games of chance From Bombay 'round to Cork,I've sensed the ways of high finance ...
Mandalay 2 (Billy Bennett Poems)
On the banks of the River Schlemozzle, Mid the deserts and sands of Dundalk,I've hunted wild llamas in purple pyjamas,I've ...
Bill Brewster (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In Burke's Saloon, among the crowd,I heard Bill Brewster boasting loud,Boasting loud and boasting longA lot of longshore stiffs among.And ...
An Ocean Tramp (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
To-morrow and to-morrow, (O the slashing of the foam along the furrow!)We'll loosen from the jetty when ...
The Tow-Rope Girls (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Oh, a ship in the Tropics, a-foaming along, With every stitch drawing, the Trade blowing strong, The white caps around ...
Seafarer (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Bright plates and pannikinsTo sail the seas around,And a new donkey's breakfastFor the outward bound! Shanghaied in San FranciscoWe brought ...
The Parsee Woman (Cale Young Rice Poems)
(_At Bombay_)Cast me out from among you, I will not see my childLaid aloft where the vultures May clamour for ...
The Indian Myna (C J Dennis Poems)
Gimme the town an' its clamour an' clutter; I ain't very fond of the bush;For my cobbers are coves of ...
The Wander-Light (Henry Lawson Poem)
And they heard the tent-poles clatter, And the fly in twain was torn - 'Tis the soiled rag of a ...
Dedication (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
The Song of the Cities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
The Post That Fitted (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry An attractive girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
Dedication (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
Gioconda And Si-Ya-U (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Nocturne of the Wharves (Arna Bontemps Poem)
All night they whine upon their ropes and boom against the dock with helpless prows: these little ships that are ...
The Bombay Train Song (John Matthew Poems)
He hangs on dangling handholds As the train sways and careens Endless nondescript buildings unfold Their secrets as the tired ...
October 12 (David Lehman Poems)
My bag was missing at the airport "Just one bag?" "Yes, but it meant a lot to me" I had ...