Afternoon Rain in State Street (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cross-hatchings of rain against grey walls, Slant lines of black rain In front of the up and down, wet stone ...
Cross-hatchings of rain against grey walls, Slant lines of black rain In front of the up and down, wet stone ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
1895 There's a Legion that never was listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, ...
Eyes of grey -- a sodden quay, Driving rain and falling tears, As the steamer wears to sea In a ...
(Non-commissioned Officers in Charge of Prisoners) When by the labor of my 'ands I've 'elped to pack a transport tight ...
Beyond the narrows of the Inner Hebrides We sailed the cold angry sea toward Barra, where Heaval mountain Lifts like ...
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
Look at my knees, That island rising from the steamy seas! The candles a tall lightship; my two hands Are ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
One night when I went down Thames' side, in London Town, A heap of rags saw I, And sat me ...
The Boastful Crow and the Laughing Jack Were telling tales of the outer back: "I've just been travelling far and ...
A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Concerning the burning of the steamship ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
'Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of November, Which the people of Dundee and ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a terrible ...
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
Ye landsmen, all pray list to me, While I relate a terrible tale of the sea, Concerning the screw steamer ...
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on July the 14th day, That an alarming accident occurred in the River ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
'Twas in the village of Ruily there lived a bonnie lass With red, pouting lips which few lasses could surpass, ...
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