A Whaler’s Confession (Harry Kemp Poems)
Three long years a-sailing, three long years a-whaling,Kicking through the ice floes, caught in calm or gale,Lost in flat Sargasso ...
Three long years a-sailing, three long years a-whaling,Kicking through the ice floes, caught in calm or gale,Lost in flat Sargasso ...
When you've failed with ordered people, when you've sunk neck-deep againIn the sluggish wash and jetsam of the slackened tides ...
I am eighty years old and somewhat,But I give to God the praiseThat they made a sailor of meIn the ...
Men stood like dolls about the seething deck;White as the foam their faces shone, whose fleckTongued far up the long ...
Going down to sea in shipsIs a glorious thing,Where up and over the rolling wavesThe seabirds wing;Oh, there's nothing more ...
When I was a lad I went to seaAnd they made a cabin boy of me.Yo ho, haul away, my ...
When there wakes any wind to shake this place,This wave-hemmed atom of land on which I dwell,My fancy conquers time, ...
When Ham and Shem and JaphetThey walked the capstan roundUpon the strangest vessel,Was ever outward bound,The music of their voicesFrom ...
We couldn't make him out; he seldom spoke;We never caught him smiling at a joke —And yet he was a ...
I'd like to return to the world again,To the dutiful, work-a-day world of men, —For I'm sick of the beach-comber's ...
All hands on deck, below there!The storm is coming soon,The clouds tramp on in panicAcross the swirling moon.The wind pipes ...
There blossomed into golden day another rosy morn:The ship-wrecked sailor woke, and watched again, of hope forlorn,From his high, purple-misted ...
Shanghaied! . . . I swore I'd stay ashoreAnd sail the wide, wide seas no more! . . .Shanghaied! Shanghaied!Shanghaied — ...
Beyond the blue rim of the world,Washed round with languid-lapsing seas,Where the Wind's wings were ever furledThe Ancients dreamed Hesperides.Ship ...
The fog fell: lamps were filled and lit;They glimmered in mid-day, —And, step by step, men went abroadInto a world ...
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