A Dream Of Bric-A-Brac (John Hay Poems)
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
Sally is the laundress, and every SaturdayShe sends our clean clothes up from the wash, and Nurse puts them away.Sometimes ...
DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERSNow, while our soldiers are fighting our battles,Each at his post to do all that he ...
O'er a small suburban borough Once an eagle used to fly,Making observations thorough From his station in the sky,And presenting the appearance Of ...
They called 'em from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
They called them from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
When I was a lad and went to seaIn Seventy-seven or six maybe,There was ten tall ships on MerseysideDid sail ...
Stormy's dead, I heard them say, "he's dead and gone to rest";Of all the skippers I have known old Stormy ...
She wasn't much to brag about, she wasn't much to see,A rusty, crusty hooker as a merchant ship could be;They ...
Oh, some will save their Navy pay and take their ease ashoreAnd some will sit at an office desk and ...
What is it makes a man follow the sea?Ask me another! says Billy Magee:"Maybe it's liquor and maybe it's love ...
In the grey and dusty morn, Dreaming Jane arose, And from silent room to room With her duster goes. Slipping ...
Half a score o' sailormen that want to sail once more,Cruising round the waterside with the Peter at the fore!Half ...
I took a small path leading up a hill valley, finding there a temple, its gate covered with moss, and ...
Heavens above! here's an old tie of your-- Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground. Ha! Ha! Ha! What children ...
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