One of the Bo’sun’s Yarns (John Masefield Poems)
Loafin' around in Sailor Town, a-bluin' o' my advance,I met a derelict donkyman who led me a merry dance,Till he ...
Loafin' around in Sailor Town, a-bluin' o' my advance,I met a derelict donkyman who led me a merry dance,Till he ...
WE was in the " Blue Dragon,' Sid 'Awkins and me,When all of a sudden, "Here, Ernie," says he,"There are ...
I'm standin' at the corner uv the Lane -- The Land called Spadgers -- waiting fer 'is jills.The night's come ...
'Ere! 'Ave a 'eart! 'e sez. "Why, love a duck! A 'uman bein' ain't a choppin' block!There ain't no ...
Thus it happened .... Let me mention, lest I raise an unsought quarrel, This occurred in times long vanished, in ...
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
Well, I've done my bit o' scrappin',And I've done in quite a lot;Nicked 'em neatly wiv my bayonet,So I needn't ...
She never nagged; she never said no word; But sat an' looked at me an' never stirred. I could ...
A sight that gives me much distress Is George without his trousers,Garbed, scantily, in bathing dress Proscribed by saintly Wowsers,And ...
Once have we bashed him on the head; Twice have we stabbed him deep;Thrice have we left him there for ...
Stripped to the buff they circled round, And jagged and swung and crossed;To uppercut and smash and pound No chances ...
schnyder schnyder the bouncing spider had a song wound up inside her she'd had it taped on a silken spool ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
When once the sun sinks in the west, And dewdrops pearl the evening's breast; Almost as pale as moonbeams are, ...
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey's Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the ...
It was while we held our races -- Hurdles, sprints and steplechases -- Up in Dandaloo, That a crowd of ...
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