The Lifeboat (George Robert Sims Poems)
Been out in the lifeboat often? Ay, ay, sir, oft enough.When it's rougher than this? Lor' bless you! this ain't ...
Poems about shipmate (20 Poems)
My Dream. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I had a dream this morning off Madeira,About my poem and its publication.Methought it was still-born, and I could hear ...
A Ballad (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
With A Serious ConclusionCrowd about me, little children-- Come and cluster 'round my kneeWhile I tell a little story That happened once ...
Cicely Fox Smith (Old Poetry Poems)
Cicely Fox Smith1st February 1882Happy 125th Birthdayhttp://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Miss_Cicely_Fox_SmithThis month sees the 125th anniversary of the birth of a remarkable lady who ...
The Briny Grave (Henry Lawson Poems)
You wonder why so many would be buried in the sea,In this world of froth and bubble,But I don't wonder, ...
A Whaler’s Confession (Harry Kemp Poems)
Three long years a-sailing, three long years a-whaling,Kicking through the ice floes, caught in calm or gale,Lost in flat Sargasso ...
The Captive Sailor (Christian Milne Poems)
A TALE. JACK HARDY long for lovely NANCY Had sigh'd sincere, on sea and shore;She danc'd, she sung, she drest ...
Sally Brown (Edwin James Brady Poems)
HER sails are furled and her anchor's down. The lamps are lighted in Melbourne town; I'll spend my money on ...
Squareheads (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I never did 'ave no use for Germans (said Bill the bosun to me,As he sat on the after hatchway ...
A Ship In A Bottle (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In a sailormen's restaurant Rotherhithe way,Where the din of the docksides is loud all the day,And the breezes come bringing ...
Bill Brewster (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In Burke's Saloon, among the crowd,I heard Bill Brewster boasting loud,Boasting loud and boasting longA lot of longshore stiffs among.And ...
The Seaman’s Hour (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
When the day's trick is over and the running lights are lit,And the rigging fore and aft is trim and ...
Streets (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Many streets have the citiesNear and far,Underneath the tropic sunAnd Northern star . . .Wide streets and narrow streets,Grim streets ...
Packet Rat (Bill Adams Poems)
'Ow would you like to be a packet rat,Wiv no place anyw'ere to 'ang your 'at?Wiz two bare feet most ...
Hastings Mill (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As I went down by Hastings Mill I lingered in my goingTo smell the smell of piled-up deals and feel ...
Man In The Sea (Bill Adams Poems)
If ever you've heard it ringing, wild from the mast and clear,If you've seen the watches running, their faces blanched ...
Sailor Town (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Along the wharves in sailor town a singing whisper goesOf the wind among the anchored ships, the wind that blowsOff ...
Shipmate Sorrow (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I was shipmates with Sorrow in a day gone by;We shared the wheel and look-out, old Sorrow and I:Good times ...
On Visiting The Spot Where Captain Cook And Sir Joseph Banks First Landed In Botany Bay (Barron Field Poems)
Here fix the tablet. This must be the place Where our Columbus of the South did land. He saw the ...
Hudson’s Last Voyage (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...