Retrospect (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Ain't it rum? said Dan one day,Yarning while he worked awayAt his model, all but done,Of the clipper ship Keemun ...
Ain't it rum? said Dan one day,Yarning while he worked awayAt his model, all but done,Of the clipper ship Keemun ...
Yonder she sails on her paper sea —Masts just a trifle too tall, maybe —Chain-plates and whiskers, all, in short,That ...
When the day's trick is over and the running lights are lit,And the rigging fore and aft is trim and ...
If one could be mine for the askingOf all the ships there be,The great and small and swift and tallThat ...
'There's a deal o' ports,' said Murphy, 'an' I guess I've sampled most,Round about the Gulf o' Guinea, and up ...
Signing on in the Emerald IsleUp comes a bloke in shellback style,All fish hooks spunyarn and Stockholm tar,Fist like a ...
When th' dawn is jest a-breakin',An' th' runnin' lights are dim,An' th' risin' sun is makin'Streaks scross th' ocean's rim;When ...
I don't know who Saint Mawes was, but he surely can't have beenA stiff old stone gazebo on a carved ...
O shipmates all, as you lay sleeping(Blow, boys, blow!)Across the world the day came creeping(Blow, boys, bully boys, blow!)With a ...
When the time comes, as it will, that I go to sea no longer — Though maybe, please the ...
Shipmates o' mine, are you sleeping fair an' sound, Mates fair an' foul, friend an' foe,Lyin' where lost ships ...
Hans Dans an' me was shipmates once, an' shared the wind an' weather,An' many a job o' work in them ...
'When this 'ere war is done (says Dan) an' all the fighting's through,There's some will pal with Fritz again as ...
A pub there is of far renown,A pub that seamen knowIn every street of SailortownOr sea where they in ships ...
I was shipmates with Sorrow in a day gone by;We shared the wheel and look-out, old Sorrow and I:Good times ...
In from the seaLone as could be,Who should I meet with but Billy Magee --Billy MageeAs was shipmates with meOnce ...
DEAR partner of my soul, adieu!I go! and see, the ship's in view--The streamers flutt'ring play,The hardy crew unbend each ...
1. I am thirty this November. You are still small, in your fourth year. We stand watching the yellow leaves ...
Out of the fires of the sunset come we again to our own We have girdled the world in our ...
A mile behind is Gloucester town Where the flishing fleets put in, A mile ahead the land dips down And ...
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
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