Haunted By Tigers (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
NATHAN BEANS and William Lambert were two wild New England boys,Known from infancy to revel only in forbidden joys.Many a ...
NATHAN BEANS and William Lambert were two wild New England boys,Known from infancy to revel only in forbidden joys.Many a ...
The shipping-office clerks are 'short,' the manager is gruff-'They cannot make reductions,' and 'the fares are low enough.'They ship us ...
The China Coast's a dumping ground And the South Sea gets its shareOf the kind of men that don't make goodThe ...
Here, where the thoroughfares meet at an angleOf ninety degrees (this angle is right),You may hear the loafers that jest ...
"I - At The Post-Office It was a gray, midwinter afternoon.A noisy wind pursued the fine hard flakesOf blinding snow, ...
HER sails are furled and her anchor's down. The lamps are lighted in Melbourne town; I'll spend my money on ...
A MERMAID'S not a human thing, An' courtin' sich is folly; Of flesh an' blood I'd rather sing, What ain't ...
On the banks of the River Schlemozzle, Mid the deserts and sands of Dundalk,I've hunted wild llamas in purple pyjamas,I've ...
THE weather had been sultry for a fortnight's time or more, And the shearers had been driving might ...
'Twas a dirty night, 'twas a dirty trickWhen our ship turned over in the AtlanticIt was the schooner Hesperous - ...
Dickey, we've trained and fit and died,Yes, drilled and drunk and bled,And shared our chuck and our bunks in life.Why ...
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?—That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in ...
Cool black night thru redwoods cars parked outside in shade behind the gate, stars dim above the ravine, a fire ...
I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house Of one room and one window and one ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw, And set the blooming world a-work for me, Like such as ...
I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, lived ...
Thoughts, go your way home. Embrace, depths of the soul and the sea. In my view, it is stupid to ...
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