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Subject: ANCHORS
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First Line: Oft I must strive with wind and wave
Subject(s): Anchors


ANCHOR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I war with the wind, with the waves I wrestle
Last Line: Grimly I grip them. Guess what I'm called
Subject(s): Anchors; Riddles


ANCHOR LIFTS, by UNKNOWN+299    Poem Source                    
First Line: An anchor lifts, a ship is leaving
Last Line: The night could hear her insides turn
Subject(s): Anchors; Farewell; Ships And Shipping


ANCHOR SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah, heave her short again!
Last Line: Oh, we're bound for mother carey where she feeds her chicks at sea!
Subject(s): Anchors


ANCHORS, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a breaker's yard by the millwall docks
Last Line: "for the outward bound!"
Subject(s): Anchors


I LOVE ALL THINGS THAT CLUSTER ROUND THE SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love all things that cluster round the sea:
Last Line: And drop their anchors in the quiet bay.
Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Disasters; Harbors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Water; Ocean


IN HARBOR (ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND), by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One cannot call it sorrow any more
Last Line: That might as well have stopped and anchored there.
Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


SAIL-BOAT (BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI), by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: All day your snowy sails, rose marigold
Last Line: With music of a magic ocean shell.
Subject(s): Anchors; Flowers; Marigolds; Sea; Ocean


SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to watch them rocking to and fro
Last Line: To find the rushing high-ways of the sea.
Subject(s): Anchors; Harbors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


THE ANCHORSMITHS, by CHARLES DIBDIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like etna's dread volcano, see the ample forge
Last Line: To save from adverse winds and waves the gallant british fleet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr.
Subject(s): Anchors


THE FORGING OF THE ANCHOR, by SAMUEL FERGUSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, see the dolphin's anchor forged! 'tis at a white heat now
Last Line: Among!
Subject(s): Anchors


UP AND DOWN I GO, MY STOCK, by LAWRENCE SAIL    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Riding under the bright stars
Subject(s): Anchors; Riddles


WEIGHING ANCHOR, by MABEL F. MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Reality, unloose that steady grip
Last Line: Break round her bows, and it is time for going.
Subject(s): Anchors; Sonnet (as Literary Form)