Souls Of The Ships (John Joy Bell Poems)
One afternoon when the sun was hotI takes a snooze on the quay;An' a kink in my neck I must ...
One afternoon when the sun was hotI takes a snooze on the quay;An' a kink in my neck I must ...
Some folk calls me a gabbart, they do, - My owner calls me a lighter.There's many a craft wi' a bigger ...
The other afternoon as I was settin' on the quay(As is my custom when the days is not to cold ...
Doin' my best at eight-an'-a-half,Shovin' the sea aside—Ye're welcome to look, ye're welcome to laugh—I've neither much paint nor pride.But ...
There's a big boat boomin' in the black, wet night,Roarin' like to raise this town ;There's a small one pipin', ...
Why, yes, sir, she is like a big fiddle-case,An' her funnel's ridickelous tall,An' the state o' her riggin's a blushin' ...
DEY was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an' de pot;De pot was des a-bilin' an' de skillet sho' ...
Oh, them days on Red Hoss Mountain, when the skies wuz fair 'nd blue,When the money flowed like likker, 'nd ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv,And there befell the episode I now perpose to ...
Us two wuz boys when we fell out,— Nigh to the age uv my youngest now;Don't rec'lect what't wuz about, ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
Us two wuz boys when we fell out,-- Nigh to the age uv my youngest now; Don't rec'lect what't wuz ...
A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And ...
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