Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris (Amy Lowell Poem)
Dear Virgin Mary, far away, Look down from Heaven while I pray. Open your golden casement high, And lean way ...
Dear Virgin Mary, far away, Look down from Heaven while I pray. Open your golden casement high, And lean way ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
When, foot to wheel and back to wind, The helmsman dare not look behind, But hears beyond his compass-light, The ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
Gulls perched on the pilings a cormorant coursing low toward the open sea a breeze inland from the Atlantic up ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town, A brick path led to a mulberry- scanty ...
Now that I have your face by heart, I look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince ...
I can make out the rigging of a schooner a mile off; I can count the new cones on the ...
See her come bearing down, a tidy craft! Gaily her topsails bulge, her sidelights burn! There's jigging in her rigging ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of ...
where we live the flowers of the clocks catch fire and the plumes encircle the brightness in the distant sulphur ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
WHEN the sea is everywhere from horizon to horizon .. when the salt and blue fill a circle of horizons ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
'Twas on the 8th of January 1881, That a terrific gale along the English Channel ran, And spread death and ...
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
'Twas on the 18th of August in the year of 1798, That Nelson saw with inexpressible delight The City of ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips, And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the ...
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