Old Rochon (Maurice Thompson Poems)
IIt was off the coast of the Terre aux Boeufs(And the breeze was brisk and the sea was rough)That Gaspard ...
IIt was off the coast of the Terre aux Boeufs(And the breeze was brisk and the sea was rough)That Gaspard ...
1862'T is midnight: through my troubled dreamLoud wails the tempest's cry;Before the gale, with tattered sail,A ship goes plunging by.What ...
O'ER the waste of waters cruising,Long the General Monk had reigned;All subduing, all reducing,None her lawless rage restrained:Many a brave ...
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
HERE 's the old cruiser, 'Twenty-nine,Forty times she 's crossed the line;Same old masts and sails and crew,Tight and tough ...
Some folk calls me a gabbart, they do, - My owner calls me a lighter.There's many a craft wi' a bigger ...
For many years I've watched the ships a-sailing to and fro,The mighty ships, the little ships, the speedy and the ...
A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi--half-moon of carcass and jutting legs, eyesalready milky ...
You that have been first in war To meet that menace of the sea,The sunken craft that ne'er before Hath tried death's ...
It was the steamship Dinkinbar,From the Gulf of MexicoFor Liverpool in time of warWith a thousand mules below,And a bunch ...
A MERMAID'S not a human thing, An' courtin' sich is folly; Of flesh an' blood I'd rather sing, What ain't ...
Oh, have you been to Rio Grande, or yet to 'Frisco town,Or west away to Mobile Bay where they roll ...
When you've marshalled your navies and gloried your fillIn the latest they show of invention and skill,The lion in strength ...
They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In ...
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