Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-ey’d Susan: A Ballad (John Gay Poems)
I.All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd, The streamers waving in the wind, When black-ey'd Susan came aboard. Oh! where shall I ...
I.All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd, The streamers waving in the wind, When black-ey'd Susan came aboard. Oh! where shall I ...
HERE 's the old cruiser, 'Twenty-nine,Forty times she 's crossed the line;Same old masts and sails and crew,Tight and tough ...
This is the tale that was told to me,By a battered and shattered son of the sea-To me and my ...
THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIPShe is on her way, a goodly ship, With her tacklings loosed, her pilot gone;Behind, beneath, around, the deep, And ...
O! Say, lovely Nan! can you lie in a hammock?When the mountain-waves rage, can you swing in a hammock?As the ...
"All hands unmoor," the hoarse-voiced boatswain cries,And the rough tars stand to their posts. Some flingThe capstan bars around; a ...
Now o'er the deep the wind blows fresh and free,And hope beams joyful in the settler's eye;Madeira's isle lies westward ...
"East and by South, half South; steady there, steady.Down fore and mizen-top-gallant-sails. Yo! HaulThe lee-sheet taught. Yo, b'lay. All hands ...
APOEM,WRITTEN ON THAT COAST, AND ADDRESSED TO ITS PROPRIETOR,SIR JOHN STANLEY. THEE, STANLEY , thee, our gladden'd spirit hails,Since Life's ...
A TALE. JACK HARDY long for lovely NANCY Had sigh'd sincere, on sea and shore;She danc'd, she sung, she drest ...
" AS we lay musing in our beds, So well and so warm at ease, I thought upon those lodging-beds ...
A capital ship for an ocean tripWas the Walloping Window Blind.No gale that blew dismayed her crewOr troubled the captains ...
A CHEER to keep our hearts up, A cup to drown our tears, And we'll talk of those who perished, ...
She'd carried coal on her last voyage,So she was thick wi' fleas;An' there was cockroaches in every crevice,An' them small ...
Rouse out, you sleepers! Come, now, rise and shine!How would you like to hear that cry again?You rolled into your ...
A capital ship for an ocean trip,Was the "Walloping Window-blind";No gale that blew dismayed her crewOr troubled the captain's mind.The ...
I seen her once for just a jiff; it was a misty day,Wi' sea birds mewin' i' the rain an' ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Young Ben he was a nice young man, A carpenter by trade; And he fell in love with Sally Brown, ...
Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
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