Kelly Ingram (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
His name was Kelly Ingram; he was Alabama's son,And he whistled "Yankee Doodle," as he stood beside his gun;There was ...
Poems about overboard (21 Poems)
Packet Rat (Bill Adams Poems)
'Ow would you like to be a packet rat,Wiv no place anyw'ere to 'ang your 'at?Wiz two bare feet most ...
The Adventures of Jonah (Doris Clore Demaree Poems)
Go down to Nineveh! said God to Jonah."Tell the people there to stop their wickedness.""But I don't want to go ...
Continued – II (George Meredith Poems)
Oracle of the market! thence you drewThe taste which stamped you guide of the inept. -A North-sea pilot, Hildebrand yclept,A ...
The Last Chantey (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"And there was no more sea." Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim Calling to the Angels ...
1985 (Brooks Haxton Poem)
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. ...
Gioconda And Si-Ya-U (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
Paying The Captain (Russell Edson Poem)
We get on a boat, never mind if it sinks, we pay the captain by throwing him overboard. And when ...
Richard Coeur de Lion (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion, Is a name that we speak of with pride, Though he only lived six months in ...
Every Time I laugh Aloud (An Ode to Short People) (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Every time I laugh aloud, who springs to mind but Johnnie Howard? Cathartic laughter eases stress which Johnnie causes in ...
Siren Song (Margaret Atwood Poem)
This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men ...
Responsibilities – Introduction (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain Somewhere in ear-shot for the story's end, Old Dublin merchant "free of the ...
The Aged Pilot Man (Mark Twain Poems)
On the Erie Canal, it was, All on a summer's day, I sailed forth with my parents Far away to ...
Athabaska Dick (Robert William Service Poems)
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
Old Schooldays (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Awake, of Muse, the echoes of a day Long past, the ghosts of mem'ries manifold -- Youth's memories that once ...
The Rum Parade (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Now ye gallant Sydney boys, who have left your household joys To march across the sea in search of glory, ...
An All-Night Sea Fight (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
The Wreck of the Columbine (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
Wreck of the Schooner Samuel Crawford (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
The Yarn of the Loch Achray (John Masefield Poems)
The Loch Achray was a clipper tall With seven-and-twenty hands in all. Twenty to hand and reef and haul, A ...