The Amber Whale: A Harpooneer’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore -No doubt you have heard the name before -Was a boy who never would shut a ...
Neither the most agreeable Argentines,Nor the race tracks on the Pampas,Have the power to distract from his bad moodThe Consul ...
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
BLAZ1N' STAR, from Boston city -- Yankee goods and kerosene; Foreign crew and cook and master; stout, old-fashioned brigantine. Hamburg-built ...
The Western Ocean rolls and roarsFrom Sandy Hook to Europe's shores,From Fastnet Light to Portland, Maine,And Newport News and back ...
The ships that trade foreign, to London they bearTheir cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,Their bales and their gunny-sacks, tea-chests ...
Wherever British drumbeats sound,Unending 'round the world; Wherever in some land new-found,Our starry flag's unfurled; Where'er the sun is known ...
Five boats there was, says Bristol Tim, "in the steamship Albacore — She used to sail on the Far East ...
I want to go back to Singapore And ship along the Straits,To a bungalow I know beside Penang; Where cocoanut ...
We will go no more to Shaemus, at the Nip, for sly innuendo and an Oporto Flip, the rough but ...
They grouped together about the chief, And each man looked on his fate, Should ever the sound of a restless ...
We're all buying SpitfiresAs fast as we can buySpitfires and HurricanesFor battles in the sky . . . The girls ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An' Donkin' o' the Jail; An' Blake, ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I ...
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