Five Visions Of Captain Cook (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
ICOOK was a captain of the AdmiraltyWhen sea-captains had the evil eye,Or should have, what with beating krakens offAnd casting ...
Poems about admiralty (17 Poems)
Hunting Of The Snark: Preface (Lewis Carroll Poems)
PREFACE If—-and the thing is wildly possible—-t he charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive ...
Lines. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
To the Memory of George Kilpatrick, Esq., Surgeon of the ExpeditionAppointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the ...
London Siren (Alan Pryce-Jones Poems)
I sat at a high window till sleep despaired of meAnd all the anger in this small roomShook me for ...
A Ballad of Sir John Franklin (George Henry Boker Poems)
"O, WHITHER sail you, Sir John Franklin? Cried a whaler in Baffin's Bay. To know if between the land ...
The Rhyme Of The (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I ...
Palace Square (Benedikt Livshits Poems)
Hooves in the air, and the archOf a scarletstoned throat,And the fatal firepoolOf buildings drugged on sunset:Foreigners expelledFrom the kingdom ...
My Reward for Being, was This (Emily Dickinson Poems)
343My Reward for Being, was This.My premium-My Bliss-An Admiralty, less-A Sceptre-penniless-And Realms-just Dross-When Thrones accost my Hands-With "Me, Miss, Me"-I'll ...
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
The Song of the Dead (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges -- They that look still ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Macavity: The Mystery Cat (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's ...
My Reward for Being, was This. (Emily Dickinson Poem)
My Reward for Being, was This. My premium -- My Bliss -- An Admiralty, less -- A Sceptre -- penniless ...
Preface to Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...