The North Atlantic Trade (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As I was walking beside the docks I met a pal o' mineI sailed with once on the Colonies' run ...
As I was walking beside the docks I met a pal o' mineI sailed with once on the Colonies' run ...
When the night winds blow in from the open sea,And darkness sifts down in the busy street,That's always the lonesomest ...
She wasn't much to brag about, she wasn't much to see,A rusty, crusty hooker as a merchant ship could be;They ...
Did you see the poor old hooker, by the ocean wharf she lay?Her decks are foul with harbour grime, she ...
(Notice to Mariners: "North Atlantic Ocean, — derelict reported")I left her headed for Lord-knows-where, in latitude forty-nine,With a cargo of ...
"A great while ago there was a schoolboy who lived in a cottage by the sea,And the very first thing ...
I don't know who Saint Mawes was, but he surely can't have beenA stiff old stone gazebo on a carved ...
I seen her once for just a jiff; it was a misty day,Wi' sea birds mewin' i' the rain an' ...
Cruel is the sea, and the hardest thing of allIs her taking and her leaving, and the way it seems ...
They are fighters, but they're not the hero kind;They are just a gang of grimy sailormen.They're the knights of crank ...
The sea's a place for sailormen in fair or stormy weather;'Round the world and back again they're all good mates ...
If ever you've heard it ringing, wild from the mast and clear,If you've seen the watches running, their faces blanched ...
Lovely is the white town, and smiling it liesWith little green gardens underneath the blue skies,Days so full of sunshine, ...
A pub there is of far renown,A pub that seamen knowIn every street of SailortownOr sea where they in ships ...
Along the wharves in sailor town a singing whisper goesOf the wind among the anchored ships, the wind that blowsOff ...
There's a dark an' dirty wineshop on a waterfront I know,An' a cross-eyed Dago keeps it — or he kep' ...
In from the seaLone as could be,Who should I meet with but Billy Magee --Billy MageeAs was shipmates with meOnce ...
To-night the dark came stormy down,The sun went red to rest;And fleets of clouds like battleshipsFilled all the burning West.The ...
All that sort o' guff, said Bill, "they may keepAbout 'ow nice it is bein' buried at sea,For I don't ...
Half a score o' sailormen that want to sail once more,Cruising round the waterside with the Peter at the fore!Half ...
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
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