The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
That boy I took in the car last night, With the body that awfully sagged away, And the lips blood-crisped, ...
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...
The black bull bellowed before the sea. The sea, till that day orderly, Hove up against Bendylaw. The queen in ...
A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Concerning the burning of the steamship ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken ...
A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold, About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold; Who struggled hard in the ...
Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Concerning the barque "Wm. Paterson" that was ...
'Twas on the 8th of January 1881, That a terrific gale along the English Channel ran, And spread death and ...
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
Ye landsmen, all pray list to me, While I relate a terrible tale of the sea, Concerning the screw steamer ...
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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