Bound for Sourabaya! (Charles Henry Souter Poems)
OH, the moon shines bright, and we sail to-night, And we're bound for Sourabaya! So it's 'Farewell, Jane!' for ...
Poems about hatches (21 Poems)
The Turtle’s Sermon (George Johnston Poems)
An old and crafty terrapin,Who lately found his speech,Like many another simple lout,Concluded he could preach.And so he waddled to ...
The (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
What says the Lizard, Swinging high his shining spear? . . ."Pass along, my lady, I've known, ye ...
Bill The Dreamer (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Some day when I'm rich (said Bill) I'm going to leave the sea,Sail an' steam alike 'll see the livin' ...
Bound For Sourabaya! (Charles Henry Soutar Poems)
OH, the moon shines bright, and we sail to-night, And we're bound for Sourabaya! So it's 'Farewell, Jane!' for we're ...
Strike For Indonesian Freedom (Bartlett Adamson Poems)
Yet once more, my fellow-workers! Yet once more you lead the van,Armed with all unselfish motives, fighting for your fellowman.Never ...
The Fire-Room Crew (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
They are fighters, but they're not the hero kind;They are just a gang of grimy sailormen.They're the knights of crank ...
Bound Away (Bill Adams Poems)
A three-skysail yarder with her hatches battened down,And the grey sky up above her, and the Mersey's muddy brownA-rippling at ...
The Tempest Is Raging (David Vedder Poems)
AIR--_"He 's dear to me, though far frae me."_ The tempest is raging And rending the shrouds; ...
Tom Bowling (Charles Dibdin Poems)
Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling,The darling of our crew;No more he'll hear the tempest howling,For death has ...
The Coming Day (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
IN dream I saw a vision of the world Caught in mid-space, a heavy-laden ship Panting and bounding in a ...
The Vagabond (Henry Lawson Poem)
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
The Rhyme of the Three Sealers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
The Mary Gloster (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
The Legend of Evil (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I This is the sorrowful story Told when the twilight fails And the monkeys walk together Holding their neighbours' tails: ...
The Galley-Slave (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
The Derelict (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
And reports the derelict Mary Pollock still at sea. SHIPPING NEWS. I was the staunchest of our fleet Till the ...
Cain and Abel (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Cain and Abel were brothers born. (Koop-la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised corn. (Koop-la! Come along! ...
Growltiger’s Last Stand (T. S. Eliot Poems)
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
84. Address to the Deil (Robert Burns Poems)
O THOU! whatever title suit thee- Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie, Clos'd ...