The Amber Whale: A Harpooneer’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
THEY who say the bush is dull are not so very far astray,For this eucalyptic cloisterdom is anything but gay;But ...
(Reprinted from "The Political Nursery," midsummer number, 1898)AT midnight Death dismissed the chancellor,But left the soul of Bismarck on his ...
The man who had never heard of Frank Sinatra: he livedA perfectly ordinary life in America. Born in 1915,He followed ...
The householder issuing to the streetIs adrift a moment in that ice stiffExterior. 'PeninsulaLow lying in the bayAnd wooded-' Native ...
Too far for you to seeThe fluke and the foot-rot and the fat maggotGnawing the skin from the small bones,The ...
I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of themorning:The moon, dwindled and ...
Hi, it's a funny world! This mornin' when I wokeI saw red robin on the fence, an' heard the words ...
Darwin, that diffident wise patient manWho proved that men were monkeys as they are,When working out how apes and men ...
In a breaker's yard by the Millwall Docks,With its piled-up litter of sheaveless blocks,Stranded hawsers and links of cable,A cabin ...
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt,And rotted down by indifferenceAnd impotent revolt like Indignation Jones?Why, with all of my ...
Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah heave her short again! Over, snatch her over, there, and hold her on the ...
I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
Here lies the body of Lois Spears, Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Willard Fluke, Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of ...
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt, And rotted down by indifference And impotent revolt like Indignation Jones? Why, with ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories