The Winged Mariners (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Through the wild night, the silence and the dark, Through league on league of the uncharted sky, Lonelier than ...
Poems about aback (21 Poems)
Squareheads (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I never did 'ave no use for Germans (said Bill the bosun to me,As he sat on the after hatchway ...
The Clyde-Built Clipper (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
A ship there was, and she went to sea(Away O, my Clyde-built clipper!)In eighteen hundred and seventy-three,Fine in the lines ...
Poor Jack (Charles Dibdin Poems)
Go, patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see,'Bout danger, and fear, and the like;A water-tight boat and good sea-room ...
A Rover Chanty (Arthur Conan Doyle Poems)
A trader sailed from Stepney town - Wake her up! Shake her up! Try her with the mainsail! A trader ...
I have been a Foster (D. Cooper Poems)
I have been a foster Long and many a day. Foster will I be no more— ...
The Two Ships (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
As I stand by the cross on the lone mountain's crest, Looking over the ultimate sea,In the gloom of ...
Sonnet V (George Gascoigne Poems)
All were too little for the merchant's hand, And yet my bravery bigger than his book; But when this hot ...
Lovers (Edward Thomas Poems)
The two men in the road were taken aback.The lovers came out shading their eyes from the sun,And never was ...
from imperfect Eden (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
Madge: Ye Hoyden (Eugene Field Poem)
At Madge, ye hoyden, gossips scofft, Ffor that a romping wench was shee-- "Now marke this rede," they bade her ...
A catchy phrase (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It was called Farm Fantastic, a catchy phrase, and potentially a day's wasted sweat. Even after the event I can't ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
87. The Twa Dogs (Robert Burns Poems)
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...
The Haggis Of Private McPhee (Robert William Service Poems)
"Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? It fair maks me hamesick," says Private McPhee. "And whit ...
Sea Change (Robert William Service Poems)
I saw a Priest in beetle black Come to our golden beach, And I was taken sore aback Lest he ...
A Death Song (William Morris Poems)
What cometh here from west to east awending? And who are these, the marchers stern and slow? We bear the ...
In Arthur’s House (William Morris Poems)
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
The Earthly Paradise: The Lady of the Land (William Morris Poems)
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt) (William Morris Poems)
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...