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 took dead Cromwell from his grave, And stuck his head on high;The Merry Monarch and his men, They laughed as they ...
When the ship is but a speckTo the landsman's feeble eye,Sailors, lying on the deck,Feel at home with sea and ...
We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to ...
I I stood once where these rows of deep piazzas Frown on the harbor from their columned pride, ...
October 21: 1805Heard ye the thunder of battle Low in the South and afar?Saw ye the flash of the death-cloud ...
… Oceanward I am ever yearning,Where far it rolls in its calm and grandeur,The weight of mountain-like fogbanks bearing,Forever wandering ...
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
The "Bride" o' Leith swings out to sea, Breasting the snow-white foam,And the pier is thronged with waving hands, ...
IWe shipped a sea on Christmas night — On Christmas night, on Christmas night! — From ...
There's ships that bring us cargoes, but not of our desire, Their ladings hail from all the ports 'twixt ...
If it console thee, Sweet, to be aware That not alone thy grievous load is borne, That every golden eve ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
A mile behind is Gloucester town Where the flishing fleets put in, A mile ahead the land dips down And ...
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