The Fighting Merchantmen (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
A capital ship for an ocean tripWas the Walloping Window Blind.No gale that blew dismayed her crewOr troubled the captains ...
"'T IS of a gallant Yankee ship that flew the stripes and stars, And the whistling wind from the west-nor'-west ...
Oh, a ship in the Tropics, a-foaming along, With every stitch drawing, the Trade blowing strong, The white caps around ...
She hauled through the dock-gates when morning was youngAnd chill on the water the river mist hung,And the chaps on ...
A devil serves our mastersAnd warps to their desireThe flexing of our sinews,Our hearts' corroding fire;Old as the mists of ...
So the Ol' Man's gone, said Bill — "ol' Cap'n Warren I signed with onst in the clipper ...
My sad heart leaks at the poop,My heart covered in filthy shag:They squirt it with jets of soup,My sad heart ...
Dear Nan, at thy command I string a sonnet, And must in rhyme surpass the Italian skill, Full fourteen lines ...
whirligig twister dancer prancer st vitus's quester chancer romancer the inkman cometh from that nether world where dream and coincidence ...
The ocean heaves around us still With long and measured swell, The autumn gales our canvas fill, Our ship rides ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
Florence, rejoice! For thou o'er land and sea So spread'st thy pinions that the fame of thee Hath reached no ...
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull, And we flew the pretty colours of the crossbones ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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