The Yarn Of The Blue Star Line (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
When I was a lad and went to seaIn Seventy-seven or six maybe,There was ten tall ships on MerseysideDid sail ...
Poems about liverpool (21 Poems)
A Ship In A Bottle (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In a sailormen's restaurant Rotherhithe way,Where the din of the docksides is loud all the day,And the breezes come bringing ...
Lieutenant Shellback R.N.R. (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
He has learnt the ways of the ships at seaIn most of the sorts of ships there be, —In most ...
Nets Below The Gangway (Edwin James Brady Poems)
FOR the grey-nurse knows the barb-hook As the codfish kens the line, And the bull-whale's blood is fountained Where the ...
The China Sea (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Did you see the poor old hooker, by the ocean wharf she lay?Her decks are foul with harbour grime, she ...
Billy’s Yarn (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Oo seen her off? . . . "Me," says the tide,"I 'ad to, for why, there was no one ...
Old Limejuicer (Bill Adams Poems)
She'd carried coal on her last voyage,So she was thick wi' fleas;An' there was cockroaches in every crevice,An' them small ...
Limey (Bill Adams Poems)
She's a Liverpool ship, an' becalmed on the Line;Ain't it hell when a Liverpool sailor must dine?Salt pork an' pea ...
Merchantmen (1917) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
All honour be to merchantmen,And ships of all degree,In warlike dangers manifoldWho sail and keep the sea, —In peril of ...
Home Round The Horn (Bill Adams Poems)
It's blowing up squally, it's piping like hell,And the packet she rolls till she tinkles her bell;Oh, I hope it ...
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 Old Shellback (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
By Murphy's Hotel as I loitered alongI heard an old shellback a-singing his song,A crazy old chorus, a song of ...
Olaf Of The Grain Fleet (Bill Adams Poems)
I coom all der vay from Liverpool roun' der HornTo 'Freesco; ve voss hunder an' fifty day on der passage;Forty ...
Armed Merchantmen: (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
By the Liverpool Docks at the break of the day,I saw a flash packet, bound westward away;And well did I ...
The Unbeloved (Charles Lamb Poems)
Not a woman, child, or man inAll this isle, that loves thee, C—-ng.Fools, whom gentle manners sway,May incline to C—-gh,Princes, ...
The Traveler (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?—That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in ...
Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina (Amy Lowell Poem)
GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL, DIED SUDDENLY OF "STRANGER'S FEVER" NOV'R 5th 1843 AGED 22 He died of ...
Jack Dunn of Nevertire (Henry Lawson Poem)
It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run; ...
In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Five-and-twenty years have gone Since old William pollexfen Laid his strong bones down in death By his wife Elizabeth In ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
The Burning of the Steamer City of Montreal (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Concerning the burning of the steamship ...