The Bay-Fight (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...
All day they loitered by the resting ships,Telling their beauties over, taking stock;At night the verdict left my messmate's lips,"The ...
Written For Mr. Bryant's Seventieth BirthdayOur ship lay tumbling in an angry sea, Her rudder gone, her mainmast o'er the side;Her ...
At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay,On board of the Cumberland, sloop-of-war;And at times from the fortress across the bayThe ...
Now the last, long rays of sunsetTo the tree-tops are ascending,And the ash-gray evening shadowsWeave themselves around the earth.On the ...
Between the green bud and the redYouth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
THEY slewed her in to dump her load, And cleaned her aft and fore; They turned her out to take ...
In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I ...
PALE ocean rock! that, like a phantom shape, Or some mysterious spirit's tenement, Risest amid this weltering waste of waves, ...
AIR--_"He 's dear to me, though far frae me."_ The tempest is raging And rending the shrouds; ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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