Resurrection (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Down at Devine's Hotel — where night and dayThe noises of the harbour find their way,The endless stir of ships ...
Down at Devine's Hotel — where night and dayThe noises of the harbour find their way,The endless stir of ships ...
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
In Daly's Bar, when night is come, and the lighted gas-lamps glow,All red and gold the drinks do shine, and ...
A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade,And she went by the name of the Captive Maid . . .Built ...
If ghosts should walk in Deptford, as very well they may,A man might find the night there more stirring than ...
He has learnt the ways of the ships at seaIn most of the sorts of ships there be, —In most ...
If I was a bloke as could paint,Bill said, "which I ain't,Lord! The pictures I'd doOf ships runnin' freeIn the ...
FOR the grey-nurse knows the barb-hook As the codfish kens the line, And the bull-whale's blood is fountained Where the ...
In Lady Dock, in Lady Dock, the ships from far and wideLay down their loads of fragrant deals the dusky ...
Yonder she sails on her paper sea —Masts just a trifle too tall, maybe —Chain-plates and whiskers, all, in short,That ...
Signing on in the Emerald IsleUp comes a bloke in shellback style,All fish hooks spunyarn and Stockholm tar,Fist like a ...
Oh, some will save their Navy pay and take their ease ashoreAnd some will sit at an office desk and ...
By Murphy's Hotel as I loitered alongI heard an old shellback a-singing his song,A crazy old chorus, a song of ...
All that sort o' guff, said Bill, "they may keepAbout 'ow nice it is bein' buried at sea,For I don't ...
See her come bearing down, a tidy craft! Gaily her topsails bulge, her sidelights burn! There's jigging in her rigging ...
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