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 ...
While wind and rain drive through the half-stripped trees,Fanners and flails go merrily in the barn.Each brook and river sweeps ...
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
IIt was off the coast of the Terre aux Boeufs(And the breeze was brisk and the sea was rough)That Gaspard ...
The Loch Achray was a clipper tallWith seven-and-twenty hands in all.Twenty to hand and reef and haul,A skipper to sail ...
THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPE.CHANGE the vision. Now no more Gorgeous smile both sea and sky;Sunset mimics now no shore Where bright ...
I.OF all the joys that brighten suffering earth, What joy is welcomed like a new-born child? What life so wretched, ...
THE SAMPO LOST IN THE SEA.Louhi, hostess of Pohyola,Called her many tribes together,Gave the archers bows and arrows,Gave her brave ...
Round Se?m's isle the black waves boilOn the rough, rough rocks below,And none can tell the date or timeSince they ...
AN acorn fell from an old oak tree,And lay on the frosty ground"O, what shall the fate of the acorn ...
AN ARMENIAN LEGEND'Tis sunset, and the wind is blowing fair;Her anchor soon the good ship will be weighing,Toward the cross ...
" By Casey's Occidental Rooms, when the sun is getting low, The chattering crowds of Chinatown along the pavements go, ...
Loudly roared the English cannon, loudly thundered back our own,Pouring down a hail of iron from their battlements of stone,Giving ...
And up the stream of days he seem'd to float,And twice seven years was toiling for his wife:And all his ...
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
IN a weary land of exile there has come to me a token,A wreath of pearly mistletoe around a holly ...
She'd carried coal on her last voyage,So she was thick wi' fleas;An' there was cockroaches in every crevice,An' them small ...
A FLOATING, a floating Across the sleeping sea, All night I heard a singing bird Upon the topmast tree. "Oh, ...
I. Dark was the dawn, and o'er the deep The boist'rous whirlwinds blew; The Sea-bird wheel'd its circling sweep, And ...
Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand, And wondrously created by the Almighty's command; And the works of the Almighty ...
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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