the Noster was a ship of swank
(as gallant as they come)
until she hit a mine and sank
just off the coast of Sum
precisely where a craft of cost
the Ergo perished later
all hands(you may recall)being lost
including captain Pater
(E. E. Cummings)
More Poetry from E. E. Cummings:
- Puella Mea (E. E. Cummings Poems)
- The Eagle (E. E. Cummings Poems)
- Young Woman of Cambridge, (E. E. Cummings Poems)
- listen (E. E. Cummings Poems)
- voices to voices,lip to lip (E. E. Cummings Poems)
- Ballad of the Scholar's Lament (E. E. Cummings Poems)