To The Lubber Poets (Bill Adams Poems)
Scented soap and lily handsA long farewell to you!I'm away to foreign landsWith a hard-case crew.Luck to you, my gemmy ...
Scented soap and lily handsA long farewell to you!I'm away to foreign landsWith a hard-case crew.Luck to you, my gemmy ...
Droppin' down to Rio on a buckin' wooden tramp;Takin' water for'r'd till her rotten planks were damp;Pitchin' like a bronco ...
My dearest, trust me! I may err and fail In many ways, through mere humanity, And draw a tide of ...
Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell ...
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
1895 There's a Legion that never was listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, ...
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
The boards of the cabins against the wind off the ocean sanded and buffeted boards bent to the touch The ...
The windward island, southern end, easterly beach early in the morning, before the hotel stirred pool chairs turned to the ...
A heavy husk thick dark shell no obstacle for one with a will to live a need to grow, warm ...
We were alone with our thoughts Warm breezes off the southerly ocean murmur of sea foam on a soft expanse ...
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons ...
I. Dead and gone, the days we had together, Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone Round them, flown as flies ...
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