Retrospect (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Ain't it rum? said Dan one day,Yarning while he worked awayAt his model, all but done,Of the clipper ship Keemun ...
Poems about clipper (21 Poems)
Pictures (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Some likes pictures o' women, said Bill, "an' some like 'orses best,"As he fitted a pair of fancy shackles on ...
Johnnie Chanteyman (Bill Adams Poems)
Johnnie Parrot, Johnnie Parrot, I'll not hear againThat old voice of yours a-ringin' down the windy rain,When the ocean morning's ...
They Made Sails (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In the old raftered loftWhere the winds blowLike thin querulous voicesOut of long ago,And the cobwebs swayTo and fro, to ...
Deep Sea Plunderings (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If one could be mine for the askingOf all the ships there be,The great and small and swift and tallThat ...
Stowaway (Bill Adams Poems)
I crossed the gangway in the winter's raining,Late in the night, when it was dreary dark;The only sounds the rain's ...
Sou’ Spain (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Are you coming, Johnnie Bowline, Have you had your fill of fun? Are you ready, Johnnie Bowline,Now your pay-roll's spent ...
Casey An’ Me (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
First I knowed Casey him an' me was young,An' many a yard we h'isted, an' many a stave we sungIn ...
There Goes Thermopylae (Bill Adams Poems)
I seen her once for just a jiff; it was a misty day,Wi' sea birds mewin' i' the rain an' ...
Daft Maggie (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
DON'T go there at cockshut. None on us goBy yon track, for it's haunted. Didn't you know-Up on Scragg Head ...
Packet Rat (Bill Adams Poems)
'Ow would you like to be a packet rat,Wiv no place anyw'ere to 'ang your 'at?Wiz two bare feet most ...
Elegy (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
So the Ol' Man's gone, said Bill — "ol' Cap'n Warren I signed with onst in the clipper ...
To The Lubber Poets (Bill Adams Poems)
Scented soap and lily handsA long farewell to you!I'm away to foreign landsWith a hard-case crew.Luck to you, my gemmy ...
With brutus in st. jo (Eugene Field Poem)
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
Governors On Sominex (David Berman Poem)
It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors. They'd closed ...
A Boston Ballad, 1854. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early; Here's a good place at the corner-I must stand ...
Faces. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
Song of the Open Road. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
The Wanderer (John Masefield Poems)
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
The Yarn of the Loch Achray (John Masefield Poems)
The Loch Achray was a clipper tall With seven-and-twenty hands in all. Twenty to hand and reef and haul, A ...
Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw (Thomas Lux Poems)
gnawing through a shinbone, a high howl inside of which a bloody, slashed-by-growls note is heard, unlike that sound, and ...