The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Poems about cargo (31 Poems)
Roads (Amy Lowell Poem)
I know a country laced with roads, They join the hills and they span the brooks, They weave like a ...
Poor Honest Men (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
The Merchantmen (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
The Coastwise Lights (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
The Ballad of the “Bolivar” (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
Albert Down Under (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
Such is the Force of Happiness — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Such is the Force of Happiness -- The Least -- can lift a Ton Assisted by its stimulus -- Who ...
My Eye is fuller than my vase (Emily Dickinson Poem)
My Eye is fuller than my vase -- Her Cargo -- is of Dew -- And still -- my Heart ...
How sick — to wait — in any place — but thine (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How sick -- to wait -- in any place -- but thine -- I knew last night -- when someone ...
After the Sun comes out (Emily Dickinson Poem)
After the Sun comes out How it alters the World -- Waggons like messengers hurry about Yesterday is old -- ...
White Nassau (Bliss Carman Poem)
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
Song For The Last Act (Louise Bogan Poem)
Now that I have your face by heart, I look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Diving into the Wreck (Adrienne Rich Poems)
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put ...
Tulips (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in I am ...
Three Women (Sylvia Plath Poems)
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
The Maori’s Wool (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The Maoris are a mighty race -- the finest ever known; Before the missionaries came they worshipped wood and stone; ...
My Soviet Passport (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
I'd tear like a wolf at bureaucracy. For mandates my respect's but the slightest. To the devil himself I'd chuck ...
The Terrific Cyclone of 1893 (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of November, Which the people of Dundee and ...
The Wreck of the Barque Wm. Paterson of Liverpool (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Concerning the barque "Wm. Paterson" that was ...
The Wreck of the Steamer Storm Queen (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye landsmen, all pray list to me, While I relate a terrible tale of the sea, Concerning the screw steamer ...
The Wreck of the Thomas Dryden (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
As I stood upon the sandy beach One morn near Pentland Ferry, I saw a beautiful brigantine, And all her ...
Wreck of the Schooner Samuel Crawford (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
The Burning of the Ship Kent (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a harrowing ...
The Burning of the Steamer City of Montreal (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Concerning the burning of the steamship ...
Cargoes (John Masefield Poems)
QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes ...