The Wreck of the Hesperus (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear ...
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say! And she was built for the herring-trade, But ...
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Down Time's quaint stream Without an oar We are enforced to sail Our Port a secret Our Perchance a Gale ...
Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, - On Apuleius' Golden ...
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
1. Mother, my Mary Gray, once resident of Gloucester and Essex County, a photostat of your will arrived in the ...
A Wintertide we had been wed When Jan went off to sea; And now the laurel rose is red And ...
To Dawson Town came Percy Brown from London on the Thames. A pane of glass was in his eye, and ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
It was the steamer Alice May that sailed the Yukon foam. And touched in every river camp from Dawson down ...
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice. Here under the ...
A lot of us were on the bark: Some framed a sail for windy weather, The others strongly and together ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
The Loch Achray was a clipper tall With seven-and-twenty hands in all. Twenty to hand and reef and haul, A ...
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