The Whitest Man I Know (J Milton Hayes Poems)
HE'S acruisin' in a pearler with a dirty nigger crew,Abuyin' pearls and copra for a stingy Spanish Jew,And his face ...
Poems about copra (7 Poems)
Merchandise (J Milton Hayes Poems)
MERCHANDISE! Merchandise! Tortoiseshell, spices,Carpets and Indigo sent o'er the highseas;Mothero'Pearl from the Solomon IslesBrought by a brigantine ten thousand miles.Rubber ...
Listen Sailor (Hamish Maclaren Poems)
Listen, sailor, listen! Who is this that callsIn the shadowed nutmeg island, under the blue wallsOf those Moluccan mountains, where ...
Hides And Tallow (Edwin James Brady Poems)
HERE ain't a lavender ditty, Sung by a sweet-scented cove; Here ain't no wine-inspired, witty Story of Honour and Love. ...
The Yarn Of The Blue Star Line (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
When I was a lad and went to seaIn Seventy-seven or six maybe,There was ten tall ships on MerseysideDid sail ...
Coastwise (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The ships that trade foreign, to London they bearTheir cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,Their bales and their gunny-sacks, tea-chests ...
Lumber (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If I'd got to choose aloneOne of all the freights I've known —All my cargoes live and dead,Bacon pigs and ...