Homeward Bound (Edwin James Brady Poems)
WITH tallow casks all dunnaged tight, with tiers on tiers ol bales, With cargo crammed from hatch to hatch, she ...
WITH tallow casks all dunnaged tight, with tiers on tiers ol bales, With cargo crammed from hatch to hatch, she ...
There was an agile sailor ladWho longed to know the bushSo with his swag and billy-canHe said he'd make a ...
Now 'ere's a yarn as is true, said Dan, "An' you can't say that o' most:I was in the packet ...
When I was a lad No more than a nipper ...
A girlish voice like a silver bellRang over the sparkling tide, "A race! a race!" She was under the ...
I ain't no glutton for work, said Bill, "though I done my whack in my day,An' I'd never say 'No' ...
Some likes pictures o' women, said Bill, "an' some like 'orses best,"As he fitted a pair of fancy shackles on ...
Signing on in the Emerald IsleUp comes a bloke in shellback style,All fish hooks spunyarn and Stockholm tar,Fist like a ...
If ever you've heard it ringing, wild from the mast and clear,If you've seen the watches running, their faces blanched ...
When spring returns with western gales,And gentle breezes sweepThe ruffling seas, we spread our sailsTo plow the watery deep.Cape Cod, ...
I launched her with my small remaining bandand, putting out to sea, we set the mainon that lone ship and ...
Fare you well, you Sydney girls, time for us to go!The Peter's at the fore truck, and five thousand bales ...
The trawl of unquiet mind drops asternGreat lucid streamers bar the sky ahead(bifurcated banners at a tourney)light alchemizes the brass ...
Men who have loved the ships they took to sea, Loved the tall masts, the prows that creamed with foam,Have ...
The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The ...
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
1 Faster, faster, 2 O Circe, Goddess, 3 Let the wild, thronging train 4 The bright procession 5 Of eddying ...
The Youth Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, Let the wild, thronging train The bright procession Of eddying forms, Sweep through ...
THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And ...
On the Erie Canal, it was, All on a summer's day, I sailed forth with my parents Far away to ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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