Modern Moses (James Madison Bell Poems)
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
1922: the stone porch of my Grandfather's summer houseI"I won't go with you. I want to stay with Grandpa!"That's how ...
Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth,Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love,But where life throngs and seethes without ...
When I was a lad I went to seaAnd they made a cabin boy of me.Yo ho, haul away, my ...
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
'ARF a pint for me, old party -- thank'ee, mister -- 'ere's yer 'ealth --'Opes y'll live to be a ...
Down at Devine's Hotel — where night and dayThe noises of the harbour find their way,The endless stir of ships ...
HER sails are furled and her anchor's down. The lamps are lighted in Melbourne town; I'll spend my money on ...
They called 'em from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
They called them from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
When I was a lad and went to seaIn Seventy-seven or six maybe,There was ten tall ships on MerseysideDid sail ...
A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade,And she went by the name of the Captive Maid . . .Built ...
He has learnt the ways of the ships at seaIn most of the sorts of ships there be, —In most ...
(Notice to Mariners: "North Atlantic Ocean, — derelict reported")I left her headed for Lord-knows-where, in latitude forty-nine,With a cargo of ...
She'd carried coal on her last voyage,So she was thick wi' fleas;An' there was cockroaches in every crevice,An' them small ...
She struck one night on a sunken ledgeOff the Scillies, homeward bound,Four months out for the Surrey DocksWith deals from ...
Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth, Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love, But where life throngs and ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
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