Sailor-Man (Edwin James Brady Poems)
'ARF a pint for me, old party -- thank'ee, mister -- 'ere's yer 'ealth --'Opes y'll live to be a ...
'ARF a pint for me, old party -- thank'ee, mister -- 'ere's yer 'ealth --'Opes y'll live to be a ...
WE brought our old tub over With lumber, from the Sound One sinner jammed and crippled, A silly bo'sun drowned; ...
HERE ain't a lavender ditty, Sung by a sweet-scented cove; Here ain't no wine-inspired, witty Story of Honour and Love. ...
WE have other tales for telling, we have other songs to sing, Who have looped the planet's waters in a ...
BLAZ1N' STAR, from Boston city -- Yankee goods and kerosene; Foreign crew and cook and master; stout, old-fashioned brigantine. Hamburg-built ...
POWER o' ploughs and clothes-pegs in her, pork and beans for ev'ry sinner, Pork and beans for captain's dinner --Pass ...
THE round world glows in its green and rose, And the full buds burst to bloom: The earth is ours ...
YOU can dunnage casks o' tallow; you can handle hides an' horn; You can carry frozen mutton; you can lumber ...
THEY slewed her in to dump her load, And cleaned her aft and fore; They turned her out to take ...
LIKE star points in the ether to guide a homing SoulTowards God's Eternal Haven; above the wash and roll,Across and ...
YANKEE packet's down the water --Blow, my bully boys, blow;Third mate loved the skipper's daughter -- Blow, my bully boys, ...
WITH tallow casks all dunnaged tight, with tiers on tiers ol bales, With cargo crammed from hatch to hatch, she ...
HER sails are furled and her anchor's down. The lamps are lighted in Melbourne town; I'll spend my money on ...
A MERMAID'S not a human thing, An' courtin' sich is folly; Of flesh an' blood I'd rather sing, What ain't ...
CLIPPER ship, the Pride of Commerce, loading now with hides and wool, Advertised to sail on Monday -- stevedore must ...
JACK BOWLIN wuz the joker's name, A sailor chap wuz 'e, Who left his ship, the Golden Flame ,To run ...
OH, we all was tired o' waiting in the spring of eighty-three, When The Duke came up the 'arbour an' ...
WE shipped him at the Sandwich Isles --'Fore God, he's mostly nose! We've fetched him full eight thousand miles To ...
WHERE are now the Captains Of the narrow ships of old Who with valiant souls went seeking For the Fabled ...
A BLISTERED span of blazing sand, A burning arch of sky . . . Despair and Death on either hand ...
'TWAS down in Honolulu, Way off one night afar, The sea-breeze comin' cooler Across the coral bar, When Lulu's eyes ...
With the lifting of the curtain, Distance, dim, but grimly certain, Breaks my vision of a city, populous and great, ...
It came upon us sudden; six solid hours it blewAs if a thousand devils had gallivanted throughThe portholes of Perdition; ...
FOR the grey-nurse knows the barb-hook As the codfish kens the line, And the bull-whale's blood is fountained Where the ...
WE sing no song of Right or Wrong, Or War, or Fame, or Duty; Our chanty free it still shall ...
Now two have met, now two have met, Who may not meet again- Two grains of sand, two blades ...
WHEN first I met Dolores I swore -- a 'prentice kid --'Er Spanish eyes was glories: Gord 'elp me! So ...
ON the beach at Otahai You remember, you and I, And the rollers on the bars, And the moonlight and ...
NOW at the window, side by side, We sit and take our ease, And watch the ebb and flow of ...
WHAT did the captain say to the cook When the ship went down the river? "I've left my girl in ...
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