Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAYS WITHOUT ALLOY, by JEAN INGELOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I sit on market-days amid the comers and the goers Last Line: Then you pull'e haul'e, pull'e haul'e, yoy! Heave, hoy! Subject(s): Markets | ||||||||
When I sit on market-days amid the comers and the goers, Oh! full oft I have a vision of the days without alloy, And a ship comes up the river with a jolly gang of towers, And a "pull'e haul'e, pull'e haul'e, yoy! heave, hoy!" There is busy talk around me, all about mine ears it hummeth, But the wooden wharves I look on, and a dancing, heaving buoy, For 'tis tidetime in the river, and she cometh - oh, she cometh! With a "pull'e haul'e, pull'e haul'e, yoy! heave, hoy!" Then I hear the water washing, never golden waves were brighter, And I hear the capstan creaking - 'tis a sound that cannot cloy. Bring her to, to ship her lading, brig or schooner, sloop or lighter, With a "pull'e haul'e, pull'e haul'e, yoy! heave, hoy!" Will ye step aboard, my dearest? for the high seas lie before us. So I sailed adown the river in those days without alloy. We are launched! But when, I wonder, shall a sweeter sound float o'er us Than yon "pull'e haul'e, pull'e haul'e, yoy! heave, hoy!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SELLING SPIEL ON MAXWELL STREET by CARL SANDBURG TONE PICTURE (MALIPIERO: IMPRESSONI DAL VERO) by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA by ALLEN GINSBERG TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A TRADE by EDWARD CARPENTER MADONNA OF THE MARKETPLACE by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER A GHETTO CATCH by LELAND DAVIS IN THE LITTLE OLD MARKET-PLACE (TO THE MEMORY OF A.V.) by FORD MADOX FORD THE COTTAGER'S COMPLAINT, ON .. ENCLOSING SUTTON-COLDFIELD by JOHN FREETH THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 29 by HAN SHAN ECHO AND THE FERRY by JEAN INGELOW GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL by JEAN INGELOW |
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