The Shooting Of Dan McGrew (Billy Bennett Poems)
A bunch of the boys were whooping it upIn the Malamute Saloon; An American guy from Peckham Rye Was playing ...
A bunch of the boys were whooping it upIn the Malamute Saloon; An American guy from Peckham Rye Was playing ...
If ghosts should walk in Deptford, as very well they may,A man might find the night there more stirring than ...
The smell of arnica is strong, And mother's time is spentIn rubbing father's arms and back With burning ...
All the ships of the world come here, Rest a little, then set to sea; Some ride ...
All honour be to merchantmen,And ships of all degree,In warlike dangers manifoldWho sail and keep the sea, —In peril of ...
Along the wharves in sailor town a singing whisper goesOf the wind among the anchored ships, the wind that blowsOff ...
By the Liverpool Docks at the break of the day,I saw a flash packet, bound westward away;And well did I ...
Not here the grace of the sonnet's flow,The blithe ballade and the smooth rondeau,The minstrel's tale and the wooer's sighs,And ...
Wet, streaming sand, and the tide going down;Boats on the beach, and the sails patched and brown,And the heath-smoke hanging ...
And they heard the tent-poles clatter, And the fly in twain was torn - 'Tis the soiled rag of a ...
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds -- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
Little bits of memories, most over forty years old bouncing up against one another spilling into my present consciousness a ...
Liner Notes - (from Love Is A Dog From Hell) My friend Jenny is really worried that people are going ...
Liner Notes - (From Love Is A Dog From Hell) Emotional Idiocy is obviously a theme close to my heart ...
Liner Notes - (from No More Mister Nice Girl) I was having a foul day. Some geezer harrassed me on ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
RINGS of iron gray smoke; a woman's steel face . looking . looking. Funnels of an ocean liner negotiating a ...
'Ye have robb'd,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end, Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead: ...
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