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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANDY BATTLE'S AND NOD'S SONG, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Once and there was a young sailor, yeo ho!
Last Line: And waits for his sorrowful end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Once and there was a young sailor, yeo ho!
Last Line: And waits for his sorrowful end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Once and there was a young sailor, yeo ho!
And he sailed out over the say
For the isles where pink coral and palm-branches blow,
And the fire-flies turn night into day,
Yeo ho!
And the fire-flies turn night into day.
But the Dolphin went down in a tempest, yeo ho!
And with three forsook sailors ashore,
The Portingals took him where sugar-canes grow,
Their slave for to be evermore,
Yeo ho!
Their slave for to be evermore.
With his musket for mother and brother, yeo ho!
He warred wi' the Cannibals drear,
In forests where panthers pad soft to and fro,
And the Pongo shakes noonday with fear,
Yeo ho!
And the Pongo shakes noonday with fear.
Now lean with long travail, all wasted with woe,
With a monkey for messmate and friend,
He sits 'neath the Cross in the cankering snow,
And waits for his sorrowful end,
Yeo ho!
And waits for his sorrowful end.
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