The Three Ships (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I ...
HER sails are furled and her anchor's down. The lamps are lighted in Melbourne town; I'll spend my money on ...
Come all you young seamen, take heed now to me,A hard case old sailorman bred to the sea,As had sailed ...
When the night winds blow in from the open sea,And darkness sifts down in the busy street,That's always the lonesomest ...
Oh, have you been to Rio Grande, or yet to 'Frisco town,Or west away to Mobile Bay where they roll ...
I ain't no glutton for work, said Bill, "though I done my whack in my day,An' I'd never say 'No' ...
Some likes pictures o' women, said Bill, "an' some like 'orses best,"As he fitted a pair of fancy shackles on ...
IWe shipped a sea on Christmas night — On Christmas night, on Christmas night! — From ...
When the day's trick is over and the running lights are lit,And the rigging fore and aft is trim and ...
Are you coming, Johnnie Bowline, Have you had your fill of fun? Are you ready, Johnnie Bowline,Now your pay-roll's spent ...
Where are you bound for, Sailorman, sailormanWith the missis and the dog And your big spreets'l flopping?"Maldon, Manningtree,West ...
'When this 'ere war is done (says Dan) an' all the fighting's through,There's some will pal with Fritz again as ...
I coom all der vay from Liverpool roun' der HornTo 'Freesco; ve voss hunder an' fifty day on der passage;Forty ...
Along about six in th' mornin',When th' drippin' sun turns out o' bed,An' reveille's gone, an' th' decks are astir,An' ...
What do I see and hear of an April morning?Many a ridge and furrow, headland and bay,Many a ship bound ...
So they couldn't save the old Frenchie at the finish,Bill said, "an' now she's gone —Gone, an' left the little ...
All coiled down, an' it's time for us to go;Every sail's furled in a neat harbour stow;Another ship for me, ...
Oh, sailed you by the Goodwins,Oh, came you by the Sound?And saw you there my true love.That was homeward bound?"Oh, ...
"The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat"-- A Diversity of Creatures The Soldier may forget his Sword, The Sailorman ...
The sailorman's child And the girl of the witch-- They can't be defiled By touching pitch. The sailorman's son Had ...
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