7 Days on the Sea (May Swenson Poems)
Monday The world is a ball of water. See, it is round-sided. I move across its topside, upon the world, not in it. The boat ...
Monday The world is a ball of water. See, it is round-sided. I move across its topside, upon the world, not in it. The boat ...
THAT night I think that no one slept; No bells were struck, no whistle blew,And when the watch was changed I ...
A poet had a cat. There is nothing odd in that- (I might make a little pun about the Mews!) But what is ...
Written For Mr. Bryant's Seventieth BirthdayOur ship lay tumbling in an angry sea, Her rudder gone, her mainmast o'er the side;Her ...
Where leap the long Atlantic swells In foam-streaked stretch of hill and dale,Where shrill the north-wind demon yells, And flings the spindrift ...
We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull,And we flew the pretty colours of the cross-bones and ...
One very rough day on the Pride of the Fray In the scuppers a poor little cabin-boy lay, When the Bosun drew ...
I I stood once where these rows of deep piazzas Frown on the harbor from their columned pride, ...
When the night winds blow in from the open sea,And darkness sifts down in the busy street,That's always the lonesomest ...
If you've ever stood a midwatch in the cavern of the night,With the sea wolves racing past you in a ...
Last night in the Baltic Tavern tapI met, Mike said, "a longshore chapAnd said, 'Don't sailorin' look queerWith all them ...
Swashin' down the quarter-deck, scuppers runnin' free,All th' gang in workin' white, happy as c'n be;Smell o' coffee comin' through ...
We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull, And we flew the pretty colours of the crossbones ...
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