Red Sky (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Red Sky at night, sailor's delight or so the tale goes; but I wonder what those sailors would have made ...
Red Sky at night, sailor's delight or so the tale goes; but I wonder what those sailors would have made ...
Swing high and swing low While the breezes they blow - It's off for a sailor thy father would go; ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
I'll tell you the story of Jonah, A really remarkable tale; A peaceful and humdrum existence he had Until one ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
The mind, with its own eyes and ears, May for these others have no care; No matter where this body ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many ...
When the Astronomer stops seeking For his Pleiad's Face -- When the lone British Lady Forsakes the Arctic Race When ...
The Things that never can come back, are several -- Childhood -- some forms of Hope -- the Dead -- ...
Just lost, when I was saved! Just felt the world go by! Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, ...
A little bread -- a crust -- a crumb -- A little trust -- a demijohn -- Can keep the ...
Good Night! Which put the Candle out? A jealous Zephyr -- not a doubt -- Ah, friend, you little knew ...
Will there really be a "Morning"? Is there such a thing as "Day"? Could I see it from the mountains ...
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses -- past the headlands -- Into deep ...
When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I ...
The sea took a sailor to its depths.-- His mother, unsuspecting, goes and lights a tall candle before the Virgin ...
"Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? ...
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where ...
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend ...
To the maiden The sea was blue meadow, Alive with little froth-people Singing. To the sailor, wrecked, The sea was ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
When melancholy Autumn comes to Wembley And electric trains are lighted after tea The poplars near the stadium are trembly ...
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white. Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear ...
It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors. They'd closed ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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