A Valediction (John Masefield Poems)
We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to ...
We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to ...
Luff up, boys! clew up, and furl every sail;Clear the cables—let all fly, and clew;Though rocks are a-lee, she will ...
"East and by South, half South; steady there, steady.Down fore and mizen-top-gallant-sails. Yo! HaulThe lee-sheet taught. Yo, b'lay. All hands ...
Oh, soon she'll bite the swell, the breeze is singing,Sandy Hook is dropping fast astern!Come, walk her up, my boys, ...
I I stood once where these rows of deep piazzas Frown on the harbor from their columned pride, ...
"A MARINER sat on the shrouds one night; The wind was piping free; Now bright, now dimmed was ...
Come all you sons of Freedom, a chorus join with me,I'll sing a song of heroes, and glorious liberty.Some lads ...
Stormy's dead, I heard them say, "he's dead and gone to rest";Of all the skippers I have known old Stormy ...
Go, patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see,'Bout danger, and fear, and the like;A water-tight boat and good sea-room ...
Poor Tom Brown from Nottingham, Jack Williams and poor JoeThey were three gallant poacher boys their country well does knowAnd ...
I crossed the gangway in the winter's raining,Late in the night, when it was dreary dark;The only sounds the rain's ...
Rouse out, you sleepers! Come, now, rise and shine!How would you like to hear that cry again?You rolled into your ...
There's a wind up and a sighing along the waterside,And we're homeward bound at last on to-night's full tide:Round the ...
It's blowing up squally, it's piping like hell,And the packet she rolls till she tinkles her bell;Oh, I hope it ...
Old man Stitch-away, old man Sails,With his long grey beard, he's hard as nails;His teeth are yellow, and his eyes ...
I coom all der vay from Liverpool roun' der HornTo 'Freesco; ve voss hunder an' fifty day on der passage;Forty ...
I though I heard the old man say — "Aye, aye, roll along home! — Bound home for old England ...
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
See her come bearing down, a tidy craft! Gaily her topsails bulge, her sidelights burn! There's jigging in her rigging ...
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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