Souls Of The Ships (John Joy Bell Poems)
One afternoon when the sun was hotI takes a snooze on the quay;An' a kink in my neck I must ...
One afternoon when the sun was hotI takes a snooze on the quay;An' a kink in my neck I must ...
A rare good life I've surely had In fifty year at sea;A finer life, I tell ye, lad, I don't believe could ...
The love and the hate of the sea, The kiss and the curse of the wind For years have been murmured and ...
There's always a ship comes into the ClydeOn the grim last night o' the year,Whatever the wind, whatever the tide,And ...
I've never traveled for more'n a day,I never was one to roam,But I likes to sit on the busy quay,Watchin' ...
There's snow, there's hai'l wi' the Nor'-West Gale, There's sleet and there's rattling rain,There's many a gust o' the spindrift dust On ...
Glad folk and sad folk, rich folk and poor,Folk that doubt if they'll come back and folk that whisper "sure!"Leaving ...
Not finely-shaped, not satin smooth, not white, But labour worn, and spare, and rather red,It lay within a troubled pool of ...
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