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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "OH, DON'T I LOVE MY BILLY", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At cruel fate I am a railer
Last Line: For the sake of billy
Subject(s): Love;sailing & Sailors;sea; Ocean


A BALLAD OF BODING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams
Last Line: Yet kept high festival above sun and moon and star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Life Choices; Monsters; Dreams; Sailing & Sailors


A BALLAD OF JOHN SILVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull
Last Line: A little south the sunset in the islands of the blest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


A BALLAD WITH A SERIOUS CONCLUSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowd about me, little children
Last Line: "would have run the other way."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Childhood; Ocean


A CHANNEL RHYME, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Start point and beachy head
Last Line: Goodwin sands are worst of all!
Subject(s): English Channel; Sailing & Sailors


A COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We reached the place by night
Last Line: For the cottage by the water.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails


A DARK NIGHT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How I long to pull the old man in
Last Line: How dark it is; how far I am from shore.
Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean


A GRAIN OF SALT, by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the wimming doubly blest
Last Line: And sail and sail -- and let 'er knit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails


A MOTHER'S SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little ships of whitest pearl
Last Line: Whales.
Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Pearls; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails


A PEACE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a voice across the nation like a mighty ocean-hail
Last Line: He sends us sailing on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Hope; Kentucky; Sailing & Sailors; Voices; Optimism


A POOR FRENCH SAILOR'S SCOTTISH SWEETHEART, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot forget my joe [jo]
Last Line: Is bible and charm for me.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


A PRAYER FOR THE SAILOR, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Outside my window howls the wind
Last Line: May find his way to shore.
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


A QUEEN IN THE SEA, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous flood
Last Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous sea.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


A SAILOR BOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes I think I'd like to roam
Last Line: Where mother and her kisses are.
Subject(s): Absence; February; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation


A SAILOR CHANTEY (ON BARK 'PESTALLOZI' OFF TRISTAN D'ACUNHA ISLANDS), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Six hearty husky lads were we, / able to cope with storm and sea
Last Line: And here we are to sea once more!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails


A SAILOR'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We kissed good-bye in the gloaming
Last Line: "till the trump of the judgment-day!"
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation


A SAILOR'S YARN, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the tale that was told to me
Last Line: As would go and lie to a poor marine.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


A SAINT OF CORNWALL, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know who saint mawes was, but he
Last Line: Like a good old master mariner whose sailing days are done.
Subject(s): Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Theology


A SEA SONG, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old albion sat on a crag of late
Last Line: "that's as hereafter may be."
Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs


A SEA-SONG FROM THE SHORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail! Ho!
Last Line: Though I never sailed back again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


A SIMPLE PASTORAL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aurora, lady grey, / hides her face in blushes
Last Line: To our falls and risings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English Navy


A SOLITUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand
Last Line: Beneath the coil of dull dense waves and hours?
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


A SONG IN TIME OF ORDER, 1852, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Push hard across the sand
Last Line: The kingdoms are less by three.
Variant Title(s): A Song In Time Of Order: 1852
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Ocean


A SONG OF DELOS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song was heard of old - a low, sweet song
Last Line: -- oh, linger, seamen, linger on the oar!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


A SONG OF THE CRUISE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the sun and the rain, and the rain and the sun!
Last Line: But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Sun; Ocean


A TRUTHFUL SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I tell this tale, which is strictly true
Last Line: Both: we tell these tales, which are strictest true, etc.
Subject(s): Bricklayers; Buildings & Builders; Sailing & Sailors; Shipbuilding; Seamen; Sails


A VISIT FROM NEPTUNE, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the good ship iroquois
Last Line: As o'er the deep we rolled.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


A WEATHER PROPHET, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun as clear as a raindrop of fire slipt
Last Line: Home.
Subject(s): Drowning; Prophecy & Prophets; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weather; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


A WILD NIGHT, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm is sweeping o'er the land
Last Line: That struggle with the sea!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


A WORD FOR THE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men, born of the land that for ages
Last Line: God save the commonweal!
Subject(s): England; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English


A YARN OF DAYS, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now 'ere's a yarn as is true,' said dan
Last Line: "an' they give 'im a pair o' binoculars along o' savin' bill!"
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


A-ROVING (CHANTY), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In amsterdam there dwelt a maid
Last Line: "I'll go no more a-roving / with you, fair maid"
Variant Title(s): The Fair Maid Of Amsterdam
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


ACROSS THE SEA OF LIFE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gazed into a maiden's eyes
Last Line: Engulfed in glory light.
Subject(s): Boats; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


ADMIRAL EVANS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wide seas search for him. But vain their quest
Last Line: They fashioned him to fight — still fights he on!
Subject(s): Evans, Robley Dunglison (1846-1912); Sailing & Sailors; War; Seamen; Sails


ADMIRAL, HAIL!, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Admiral, admiral
Last Line: Freedom and peace is the end of your quest!
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails


AFTER JUTLAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The city of god is late become a seaport town
Last Line: The sailor he is home from sea to go back no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War


AIR: 'CAPTAIN JINKS', by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm captain hans of the submarines
Last Line: I'm in the german navy!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Sailing & Sailors; Submarines; Seamen; Sails; Submarine Warfare; U-boats


ALL AT SEA (THE VOYAGE OF A CERTAIN UNCERTAIN SAILORMAN), by FREDERICK MOXON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a certain sailorman who sat beside the sea
Last Line: "I must ha' told the one belongs to my twin brother bill!"
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


AMBOYNA: SONG OF THE SEA FIGHT, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who ever saw a noble sight
Last Line: As this so brave, so bloody sea fight.
Subject(s): Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs


AN ELFIN CRUISE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas a merry day as we sailed away
Last Line: "a platter round for a boat we found, / and we made a sail of a glove"
Subject(s): Mythology;sailing & Sailors


AN END PIECE, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close the book and say good-bye to everything
Last Line: As over the hill comes the morning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Change; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


AN IMPETUOUS RESOLVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When little dickie swope's [or, scrope's] a man
Last Line: Ferever an' ferever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Sailing & Sailors; Childhood


AN INVITATION, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, pretty one, where will you sail?
Last Line: I'm afraid!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails


ANCESTORS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know my fathers braved the sea
Last Line: Indoors, a stormy day!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Sailing & Sailors


ANDREW ROSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "andrew rose, the british sailor"
Last Line: Like they did young andrew rose
Subject(s): Sadism;sailing & Sailors


ARS GUBERNANDI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy subtlest gift is steersmanship, o sea!
Last Line: Skills not that day when rigid moorings break.
Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


AT PARTING, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a place I must go when my songs are done
Last Line: And sail till you come to a star!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


AT THE NAVAL EXHIBITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What pulse but throbs, what heart but quicker beats
Last Line: Only the seamen voiceless are and dumb.
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Pride; Sailing & Sailors; Strength; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect


ATLANTIS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the chill seas of yesterday
Last Line: Why in the world were you ever begun?
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 21, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Argonauts without a ship
Last Line: Cry aloud, and so awoke me.
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Germany; Jason; Sailing & Sailors; Germans; Seamen; Sails


AUGUST (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A day of torpor in the sullen heat
Last Line: Within the arms of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): August; Nature; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime


AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate
Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


AZURE ISLANDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shipmen, sailing by night and day
Last Line: One of thy murmuring fountains.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


BALLAD FOR CAPE HENRY DAY, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: From blackwall, hard by london town, on a bleak december
Last Line: Adventurers, -- and comrades, across three hundred years!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages


BALLAD OF THE CALLIOPE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the far samoan shore
Last Line: A cheer that english-speaking folk should echo round the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Pacific Ocean; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


BALLAD OF THE GOLDEN VANITY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's I have got a ship in the north country
Last Line: And they sunk him in the lowlands low
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;sailing & Sailors


BALLADE OF AUGUST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now, when the street-pent airs blow stale
Last Line: Neath other skies, 'mid stranger men!
Subject(s): August; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


BARACAROLLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay
Last Line: Sink sail! For such a dream as love is lost before the waking.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


BATH AFTER SAILING, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From ten to five we whacked the waves
Last Line: Of flirting with immersion
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


BECALMED, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the equator / pauses the good ship
Last Line: Rest finding never.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


BEN BLUFF, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ben bluff was a whaler, and many a day
Last Line: "take a whale for a wife, -- not a wife for a whale!"
Subject(s): Greenland; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails


BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride
Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time.
Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas
Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


BILL BOWLS THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bill bowels was an amiable gentle youth
Last Line: And they were taken on board and landed safe in fair england.
Subject(s): Boats; Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Valor; Bravery; Ocean


BILLY IN THE DARBIES, FR. BILLY BUDD, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good of the chaplain to enter lone bay
Last Line: I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


BOATING IN AUTUMN, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away and away I sail in my light boat
Last Line: And need not fear the greed of the evening wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


BOATMEN OF THE SKY, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The south-bound geese sail honking past
Last Line: Grim boatmen of the sky.
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


BOREAS, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He threw the pine tree in the fiord
Last Line: A sort of roving fellowship.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Sailing & Sailors; Vikings


BOS'N HILL, by JOHN ALBEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind blows wild on bos'n hill
Last Line: To join the bos'n's crew.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


BOY BRITTAN [FEBRUARY 8, 1862], by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Boy brittan - only a lad a fair-haired boy - sixteen
Last Line: "my darling, thou shalt rest!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1862); Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


BRIDEGROOM DICK (1876), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunning ourselves in october on a day
Last Line: Dick drinks from your eyes and he finds no lack!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


BY STUBBORN STARS: SONNET 1, by KENNETH LESLIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver herring throbbed thick in my seine
Last Line: Straight through the air my mooring line to you.
Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


BY THE NORTH SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea, wind and sun, with light and sound and breath
Last Line: My song to the sea.
Subject(s): Death; North Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


CABIN-KID, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your old man's a sailor, I suppose?
Last Line: I'll get revenge-a sailor too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


CAP'N STORM-ALONG, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather
Last Line: Your old cap'n storm-along's lord of us all.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


CAPTAIN BING, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain bing was a pirate king
Last Line: It took him unawares!
Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank
Subject(s): Disasters; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


CAPTAIN JONES'S MISADVENTURE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain jones was five-feet ten
Last Line: Had carried away his pennant!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


CAPTAIN MORROW'S THANKSGIVING, by LILLIE E. BARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the waves the petrel sped
Last Line: Well led by captain morrow.
Subject(s): Holidays; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Thanksgiving Day; Seamen; Sails


CAPTAIN ORTIS' BOOTY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain ortis (the tale I tell)
Last Line: Well -- half a hero was captain ortis!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


CAPTAIN TEACH ALIAS BLACK BEARD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Edward teach was a native of bristol, and sailed from that port
Last Line: Of any such pirates as the inhuman black beard.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


CAPTAIN TOM AND CAPTAIN HUGH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You're wantin' to hear about them two
Last Line: And so I think I'll say good-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


CAPTAIN WOLF, by LILIAN BURLEIGH MINER    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Puts his pipe in his mouth, and hangs out all the clothes.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


CHART 1203, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever works a storm to windward, sails
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


CLOUD SONG, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silken sails in silver galleons
Last Line: From your merchandise of dreams!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wales; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen


CLOUDS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O clouds, ye are ships in the infinite blue
Last Line: Where you float.
Subject(s): Harbors; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make
Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


COMMENT, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A woman seldom knows the east
Last Line: She moans to feel them move beneath the heart.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Women


CONQUEST, by LOUIS LEON DE JEAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wake! Bold spirit of columbus!
Last Line: Are the boys who sail the breeze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Air
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


CRUX VIA CAELORUM: 1, by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loudly the winds do blow
Last Line: Than is a sailor for a little gold?
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


DARIEN, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The waves swing hushed to the blue sky-line
Last Line: The double world grows one—at darien!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


DARK SAILORS, by BEULAH MAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dark sailors lurch through alleys of the town
Last Line: Where no voice echoes and no white gull flies.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


DAVID GWYN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: David gwyn was a briton bold who pined a slave in the hulks of spain
Last Line: Nay, to each of us all is his life assigned, his work, his fate, his allotted part.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail
Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea?
Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails


DEAR SAVIOUR PILOT ME, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As sails my fragile bark
Last Line: When dawns the light of day!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


DEATH, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Haul up the anchor, captain old, o death, for it is time
Last Line: And hail the unknown dark to find a shore beyond the deep!
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


DESPAIR, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I came down the hillside
Last Line: I've lost it all.
Subject(s): Despair; Love; Sailing & Sailors


DIRECTION, by ANNETTE TEMIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a harbor where no boatman's cry
Last Line: Upon some object not yet wholly known.
Subject(s): Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


DIRGE FOR A SAILOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the bourns of time and sleep
Last Line: This sailor's requiem!
Subject(s): Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean


DISTANCE TRAVELED, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit!
Last Line: At the foot of the mountain.
Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


DOWN AT THE DOCKS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down at the docks-when the smoke clouds lie
Last Line: With a secret tide to a secret sea.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


DOWN TIME'S QUAINT STREAM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or schedule of the tide
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Tides; Wind


DREAMLAND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up anchor! Up anchor! / set sail and away!
Last Line: Are thine for a day.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes
Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


EIGHT VOLUNTEERS, by LANSING C. BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Eight volunteers on an errand of death
Last Line: Eight men! Who speaks?
Subject(s): Heroism; Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Patriotism; Sailing & Sailors; Spanish-american War (1898); Heroes; Heroines; Seamen; Sails


ELEGIAC SONNET: 69. WRITTEN AT EXMOUTH, ON SEEING A SEAMAN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clouds, gold and purple, o'er the westering ray
Last Line: Tho' poor and plunder'd, he absolves his fate!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand
Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR BURIED ASHORE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He who but yesterday would roam
Last Line: Whose will the water's will!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Funerals; Sailing & Sailors; Burials


EPITAPH ON A YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sailor! If vigour nerve thy frame
Last Line: Such tears will not disgrace the brave! --
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sailing & Sailors; War; Seamen; Sails


ERIE WATERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dash of yellow sand
Last Line: With flying clouds and tossing gulls that weave and interlace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Waves; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


EVANESCENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing ships! Passing ships!
Last Line: Must daily mourn some vanished hand.
Subject(s): Life; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


FANTASIA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am a sea-flower
Last Line: And let the good ship go.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


FAREWELL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, and when forth
Last Line: Sail, a hopeless sailor?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


FARTHER SHORES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Their ships sailed on-sailed on; was left
Last Line: Whose ships sailed on and far away.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


FRANCIS DRAKE; A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-morrow, winter. / still the winds are foul
Last Line: Drake. Christ comfort me!
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tragedy; Ocean


FROM THE CANTEEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sailor, we shall miss you
Last Line: In the peaceful days!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


FULL MOON, by BRENDA DE BUTTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How can I sleep with the moon at the full?
Last Line: ... Then in the dawning come satisfied home.
Subject(s): Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


GHOST SHIP, by ROBERT NEALEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I did not even then quite understand
Last Line: She quickly sailed away and soon grew dim.
Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


GOD'S MARINER; FOR THE NEW ENGLAND CONVALESCENT REST HOME, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leagues from the light by the harbor side
Last Line: Who helps the storm-tossed brave the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): God; Sailing & Sailors


HALO BLADE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Simple, it said be mouth
Last Line: Into long tinge remembered
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


HARBOR WATCH, by GRACE TOWNSEND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will go down to the wharf to see
Last Line: Watching the slanted sails.
Subject(s): Harbors; Sailing & Sailors


HAWAII BOUND: 1. TRUTH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All ashore that's going!'
Last Line: Amid an earthquake shock.
Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Hawaii; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HECUBA: A CHORUS, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath
Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains!
Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 1. THE SEA'S SALUTATION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The immense life of the sea, out of remote horizons
Last Line: Passing, under the clatter of wheels and of crowding feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): London; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Tides; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901)


HOMELAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My adirondack mountain home
Last Line: Where roots have struck down deep.
Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HOMESICK, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shipwrecked in this grimy town, the worst / luck I have had
Last Line: Oh! Tomorrow I'll be sailing out to sea.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


HOMING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The waves come racing to my boat
Last Line: To kiss my love.
Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; War; Male-female Relations; American Navy


HOW I SAILED ON THE LAKE TILL I CAME TO THE EASTERN STREAM, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of spring water, - thirty or forty miles
Last Line: And staggers up the bank to pluck wistaria flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


HOW THE SAILOR RODE THE BRUMBY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was an agile sailor lad
Last Line: To many still bring tears
Subject(s): Animals;horses;sailing & Sailors


HOW'S MY BOY?, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho, sailor of the sea!
Last Line: "how's my boy -- my boy?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney
Subject(s): Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


I SAILED UP A RIVER WITH A PLEASANT WIND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The cape never rounded, nor wandered o'er
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


IMAGES OF MY DREAMS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wooded hill overshades the river's placid brim and in its tranquil
Last Line: Cloud-wrack grim. . . . And still more images will come, alas, to die!
Subject(s): Dreams; Sailing & Sailors; Nightmares; Seamen; Sails


IMPRESSIONS, by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tattered eucalyptus trees
Last Line: Arbutus springs from snowy bed!
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


IN GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My matins are remembered well
Last Line: Yet singing like a thousand birds.
Subject(s): Drowning; Sailing & Sailors; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


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


IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER, by CLARA GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: No more he sits, with book and pen
Last Line: And no more we walk earth's way.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


IN THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS, by K. L. SILLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blue are the skies in the land of our fathers
Last Line: Sailing the ocean of blue.
Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Judaism; Ocean


IN THE SHADOWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sailing to the leeward
Last Line: Down the stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


INCANTATION, by RAMONA GRAHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thirty-six hours from singapore
Last Line: Look what has happened me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cooke, W. R., Mrs.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


INFINITY, by DORA E. BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When on pretentious seas I would embark
Last Line: Except the vastness of the starlit sea.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


INLAND, by JOAN DARETH PROSPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: He used to talk of ships, and I remember
Last Line: (god! How I'm still missing him!)
Subject(s): Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


IOLAIRE; LINES WRITTEN IN THE NORTH DEA ON BOARD THE S.Y. IOLAIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This was the land that the norseman plough'd!
Last Line: The phantom hosts of the norsemen glide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vikings; Ocean


IT'S DIFFERENT NOW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In good old days upon the sea
Last Line: Him if he's lost or won!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


JACK ROY, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kept up by relays of generations young
Last Line: Heroic in thy levity wert thou, jack roy.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


JAPAN, -- OLD AND NEW, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The son of a japanese lord am I
Last Line: That foreigners brought japan.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Soul; Japanese


JOHN MARR, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since as in night's deck-watch ye show
Last Line: To hear your chorus once again!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


JUAN CABRILLO, by BELLE WILLEY GUE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You must have dreamed of many sights and sounds
Last Line: Remembering that far september day.
Subject(s): Portugal; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


LAUGH OF A SAILOR, by LILLIAN S. RING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dimpled waves of the ocean
Last Line: But never a thought of me!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


LEE FORE BRACE, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was ten men hauling on the lee fore brace
Last Line: That night in the wild horn sea!
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The


LES CASQUETS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the depth of the waters that lighten and darken
Last Line: The love of the heart of the sea.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You gave the youngster into my care. - he's dead
Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt."
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails


LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You put the kid in my care. He's dead
Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt."
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails


LIGHT LOVER, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear?
Last Line: Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Feminism


LORD ARNALDOS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The strangest of adventures
Last Line: "who sail away with me."
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black at that depth
Variant Title(s): Pacific Lament
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Battles; World War Ii; Naval Warfare; Second World War


LOVE AT SEA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We are in love's land today
Last Line: Imitated from theophile gautier.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


LOVE DISPOSED OF, by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here goes love! Now cut him clear
Last Line: Now that he is gone.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years
Last Line: Remembering.
Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


LUX IN TENEBRIS, by JOSEPH KLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was night
Last Line: Asail on a blue-black sky. ...
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


MAINSAIL HAUL, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't want none of 'is stuff,' said bill
Last Line: "to make me think o' mike my pal, now mike 'e's dead an' gone."
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


MAN SAILS THE DEEP A WHILE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your colours still shall fly
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seeking


MARINER'S HYMN, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Launch thy bark, mariner! / christian, god speed thee!
Last Line: Heaven is thy home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


MARINERS, FR. SHIPS IN HARBOUR, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men who have loved the ships they took to sea
Last Line: And a lone ship that rides there with the moon.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


MAXIMUS, IN GLOUCESTER SUNDAY, LXV, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Osmund dutch, and john gallop, mariners, their wages
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins
Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins.
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


MERCHANTMEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago I stood by the sea
Last Line: The fated ship that I loved so well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Merchants; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead
Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


MIDNIGHT SAILING, by ELYDIA SHIPMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pier is dark; and shadows creep
Last Line: And she was too late to say good-bye.
Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Parting


MINED, by JOEL T. ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wearily, wearily, crawled the ship
Last Line: As a woman shakes her hair.
Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The


MOONRISE ON THE ANTARCTIC, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge white icebergs silently
Last Line: Voyaging onward without sound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Antarctica; Death; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The


MR. PETER'S STORY: THE BAGMAN'S DOG, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a litter, a litter of five
Last Line: He'll be, in all likelihood, blowing up mine!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Dogs; Sailing & Sailors


MUTINY, by HEINZ RETTIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night was stilled, the shadows filled
Last Line: A-rockin' like a rocker.
Subject(s): Mutiny; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime


MY SHIP, by CONSTANCE V. FRAZIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the harbor at break of day
Last Line: And sank in a sea of gleaming stars.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Seamen; Sails


MYSTERIES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bound to the earth in its headlong flight
Last Line: What does it mean to live and die?
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean


NAMESAKES, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But where's the brown drifter that went out alone?
Last Line: Ah, fare you well, my sailor.
Subject(s): Hearts; Sailing & Sailors; Wind


NEMESIS, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The man who invented the women's waists that button down
Last Line: Of the man who invented the backstairs waist and he sank with the leaky boat!
Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W.
Subject(s): Boats; Enemies; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


NIGHT SAILING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver web across the sky
Last Line: How shall we miss the starry web?
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails


NIGHT VOYAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no climate for stars. But upon earth
Last Line: On a necessitous planet? Can the stars answer?
Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


O TO SAIL, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O to sail with thee, my dear
Last Line: Far from heart-ache, far from heart-break, on the great heart-healing sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Togetherness


OCEAN VOICES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sea-birds sing on the mossy crag
Last Line: Are the waters of shim'ring blue.
Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


OCEANO NOX, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! How many mariners, how many captains
Last Line: Of the blindman singing in the corner of an old bridge.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 16. THE SAME SKY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never thought until one night I' the / dark
Last Line: And asked them to guide well my dear one's barque.)
Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


ODES I, 14. THE SHIP OF STATE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh ship! New billows sweep thee out
Last Line: That gird those glittering cyclades.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


ODES SUNG IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MARINE SOCIETY: 1, by ANNE (HUGHES) PENNY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Social virtue's liberal plan
Last Line: Her foes shall bend beneath her yoke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Christian, Mrs. Thomas
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth


ODES SUNG IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MARINE SOCIETY: 2, by ANNE (HUGHES) PENNY    Poem Text                    
First Line: See these happy youths, now made
Last Line: The golden band of social love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Christian, Mrs. Thomas
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth


OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth
Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh.
Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails


OLD COMMODORE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Od's blood! What a time for a seaman to skulk
Last Line: "shall kill, till they grapple him at sea"
Subject(s): Death;sailing & Sailors;sea; "dead, The;ocean;


OLD SAILORS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I loved a ship from early boyhood days
Last Line: And a new crew is born for aeons more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


OLD STORMY, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stormy's dead,' I heard them say, 'he's
Last Line: And she took and drowned herself at last, the night old stormy died.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The


OLD TRINITY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was a merchant, and that was a belle
Last Line: Sorrow and ecstasy, hatred and love.
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Passion; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


ON THE VERGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here begins the sea that ends not till the
Last Line: From the shore that hath no shore beyond it set in all the sea.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


ON THE WATERFRONT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lollin' on a dock-pile, pipe a-draggin' slow
Last Line: All the ships upon the sea, an' all the things I know!
Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


ON THE WATERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our boat drifts in the heart of heat
Last Line: Oh! Fly from the enchanted sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


ORIENT TO OCCIDENT, 1906, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep
Last Line: For you the ship's machinery, for me the guiding helm!
Subject(s): Asia; Explorers; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology


OTHER LITTLE SHIPS, by EDNA BINTLIFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh you little, wand'ring little
Last Line: Leaving you, alone.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Solitude; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness


OUTWARD BOUND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sailing, sailing, / over the waters and over the world
Last Line: Our eeriest fancies, strangest fears.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


OUTWARD BOUND, by NOWELL OXLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a waterfall I'm leaving
Last Line: We shall go not forth again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxland, Noel
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War


PAIN IN A PLEASURE BOAT, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shove off there! Ship the rudder, bill - cast off! She's under way!
Last Line: Well, heaven be praised! But I'll not go a-sailing any more!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


PARTING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon elves dance upon the lake
Last Line: Across the sea!
Subject(s): Farewell; Longing; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Parting


PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home
Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca.
Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 10. THE OCEAN'S SPECTRE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But I upon the ship's edge was lying
Last Line: "why, doctor, are you mad?"
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 5. THE SONG OF THE OCEANIDES, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadows of evening o'er ocean are falling
Last Line: And long I sat in the darkness, with weeping.
Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


PITCH O' PINE SONNETS: 1. JOHN'S MARY, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John's mary ripened golden as the wheat
Last Line: Why mary sought a sailor, -- and left john to weep.
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


PLAYING IT SAFE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sail not too far to be safe, o licinius!
Last Line: Close to your chest.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Danger; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


PLYMOUTH HARBOUR, by EMILY N. HOXIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I little thought to see red sails
Last Line: In devon hills at dawning.
Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


POEM: 10, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wald noght spare for to speke, wist I to spede
Last Line: For when þe stode in powre strenkith -- þe war all to stout.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; War


POPULAR SONG OF TUSCANY: 3, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Passing across the billowy sea
Last Line: They said that I had given it thee
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


QUO ABEO?, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading
Last Line: Alone, alone!
Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


RAINY DAY, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The patient rain falls in a hush
Last Line: After the sails come down.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


RE-VOYAGE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What of the days when we two dreamed together?
Last Line: My lone canoe and I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Summer; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness


READY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers
Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails


RECOMPENSE, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the green fir-tips meet the sapphire sky
Last Line: For you can sing.
Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages


RED SNAILS, by MAE BAKER HENLINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mere pin points on the horizon
Last Line: Red sails when the journey's done!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sun; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun
Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean


RESCUE, RESCUE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I need you like a sailor needs
Last Line: The rescues succeed without regrets.
Subject(s): Desire; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


RETROSPECT, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ain't it rum?' said dan one day
Last Line: "what he likes best -- till it goes?"
Subject(s): Harbors; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


REUBEN JAMES, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three ships of war had preble when he left the naples shore
Last Line: For god never ranks his sailors by the register of earth!
Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); James, Reuben; Navy - United States; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Tripoli; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails


REVISIONIST POEM: MACHADO, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor and desperate men
Last Line: And the fear of drowning
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Fear; Drowning


ROMANCE (SEAMEN'S STRIKE), by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Proud legions strode the valley of the days
Last Line: Their surly clamour for a louseless bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Labor Unions; Sailing & Sailors; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


ROSAMUND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One soweth and another reapeth
Last Line: Too true! Too true!
Subject(s): Death; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Spain; Women; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


SAILING, by DOROTHY ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swiftly cutting through the water
Last Line: Nor sigh; but sing and laugh with me.
Subject(s): Boats; Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails


SAILING, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Helping her with her knots
Last Line: Together against the breakers
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


SAILING, by RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair luna shines bright
Last Line: Ere they sink in life's ocean so wide.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


SAILING BEYOND SEAS (OLD STYLE), by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought the stars were blinking bright
Last Line: Did mourn, and mourn, and mourn.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


SAILS OF MURMUR, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose blade runs through beam
Last Line: If it please the dawn
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


SALT WIND, by EVELYN MARA    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is something in the wind that blows
Last Line: Calls louder to the dead.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The


SAN DIEGO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the college san fernando, in the state of mejico
Last Line: ^1^ the yucca, or spanish bayonet.
Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Missions & Missionaries; Sailing & Sailors; San Diego, California; Soldiers; Declaration Day


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 1. SAILBOATS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating
Last Line: Heeling and tossing about in the estuary.
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


SARK OF THE LEEWARDS, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wreck of all that's solid, big and fine'
Last Line: "again the choice was mine, all mine! Amen."
Subject(s): Fate; Sailing & Sailors; Destiny; Seamen; Sails


SATURDAY NIGHT AT SEA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mother stood by the pebbled shore
Last Line: "pledge gayly back in ruddy wine."
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


SEA DREAMS, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sailor, sailor, why must you go
Last Line: Playing with dreams by the sea.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Tides; Water


SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat
Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest.
Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck
Last Line: Twill be memorial day.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day


SEA-GRASSES: DEDICATION, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you, my shipmates and my brothers, who
Last Line: These songs -- this log-book of a long-past cruise.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


SEA-GRASSES: L'ENVOI, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the sweet solitude which poets love
Last Line: Leaves all things for the muses' magic cup.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


SEA-SECRETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little one, woman-one, whither are you sailing?
Last Line: Is my heart your haven, or his?
Subject(s): Fidelity; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


SETH, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seth was right in holding to
Last Line: Had been a banner for his eyes.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


SHEKLA: A VISION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shekla's magic island lay
Last Line: Writes this tale of shekla here.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Heaven; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore


SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]"
Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee
Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence
Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean


SIX SAILORS, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


SO LONG, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All coiled down, an' it's time for us to go
Last Line: An' so long, sailorman . . . Good luck to you.
Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Parting


SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 4. WIND OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind of the sea, come fill my sail
Last Line: And bear me away! -- away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Wind; Ocean; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


SOMETIMES, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I long for a lazy isle
Last Line: Back to the whirl again!
Subject(s): Rest; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


SONG A SCHOLAR AND HIS MISTRESS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, look! I see - I see my love appear!
Last Line: [they run out together hand in hand.
Subject(s): Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails


SONG FOR COLUMBUS DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I took my three little trusty boats
Last Line: The niña, and santa marie.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


SONG OF THE MARINERS, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The miser will hold his darling gold
Last Line: And are ready for death whene'er it may come.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


SONG OF THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far out, blue ocean! O'er thy wave
Last Line: Shall tread earth by my side.
Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean


SONG OF THE SHIPS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great ships go a-shouldering
Last Line: And sail no more, no more!
Subject(s): Decay; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence; Beach; Coast; Shore


SONG OF THE SUNBURNED SAILORS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the sea their hearts they vow. They will not come again. And
Last Line: Would they have really come?
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs


SONG OF THE WANDERING KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My ornaments are sword and spear
Last Line: May bid these knightly lips kiss thee
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Journeys;trips


SONG ON THE WATER (2), by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As mad sexton's bell, tolling
Last Line: Moonily.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Love; Seamen; Sails


SONNET: 11. OUTWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide
Last Line: Go gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair!
Subject(s): Blessings; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


SONNET: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor judge me light, tho' light at times I seem
Last Line: Whom easy taste, the golden pilot, steered.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Light; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you
Last Line: With thinking of your woe!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Spain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails


SPARTA, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed of sparta...Of the withered hill
Last Line: On athens of the everlasting light.
Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Sparta, Greece; Towns; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


SPREAD THE SHEET TO THE WIND, by HUGH C. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spread the sheet to the wind, let's away, let's away!
Last Line: Spread the sheet to the wind, let's be merry to-night.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


STANLEY WARE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as sinks the new year's sun
Last Line: Hours celestial — stanley ware!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The


STANZAS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When thou at eventide art roaming
Last Line: I think of thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


STARDUST, by ALICE WILBUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I loved a lad with summer eyes
Last Line: To a lad in far shanghai?
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


STEEL RAILS, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sailed out o' sunderland with a cargo o' rails
Last Line: An' he'll sail out o' sunderland with steel rails no more!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


SUNRISE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dim light to the sou'ward
Last Line: Climbs up out of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Dawn; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sunrise; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


SUTHERLAND'S GRAVE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night long the sea out yonder - all night long the wailful sea
Last Line: In the leaves above the sailor buried ninety years ago.
Subject(s): Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Sutherland, Forby (d. 1770); Tombs; Tombstones; Seamen; Sails


TACKING SHIP OFF SHORE, by WALTER MITCHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The weather-leech of the topsail shivers
Last Line: Eight bells have struck, and my watch is below.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


TALE: 20. THE BROTHERS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Than old george fletcher, on the british coast
Last Line: Without a hope in life -- without a wish to die.
Subject(s): Brothers; Sailing & Sailors; Half-brothers; Seamen; Sails


TALES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often at sea, when fishing nets are down
Last Line: Still keep their fairies singing on the weirs.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ireland; Sailing & Sailors; Anglers; Irish; Seamen; Sails


TARPAULING JACKET, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a young jolly brisk sailor
Last Line: And fiddle and dance to my grave
Subject(s): Death;drinks & Drinking;love;sailing & Sailors; "dead, The;


THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Without rudder, without sail
Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate!
Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean


THE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proud, o proud in his oaken hall
Last Line: Who had fought, bravely fought the good fight.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE AERIAL CITY, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But proffers no pinions to fly.
Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea
Last Line: Sea.
Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE BALLAD OF BAZILE BORGNE, by IDA COLE BARTLATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Always the river called to him
Last Line: Arms unseen now cling to him!
Subject(s): Boats; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE BALLAD OF GREGORIE, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, I have now an argosy, a-sailing on the sea
Last Line: You'll live in peace and plenty on an island all your own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


THE BALLAD OF MACINDOE, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Macindoe was a scotchman-had other failings, too
Last Line: But I never believed the tale.
Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


THE BALLADE OF THE GOLDEN HORN, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were mariners long agone
Last Line: And die for a glimpse of the golden horn.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Yale University; Seamen; Sails


THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 18th of august in the year of 1798
Last Line: That thanksgiving should be returned to god for the victory complete.
Subject(s): Death; Guns; Nile (river); Sailing & Sailors; Victory; War; Dead, The


THE BEST KICK, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met a gentleman keen on walking
Last Line: "count me in on it, lad,"" said I."
Subject(s): Flight; Sailing & Sailors; Walking; Flying; Seamen; Sails


THE BOATMAN'S SONG, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down-stream 'tis all by moonlight
Last Line: Long in the sand remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE BOATMEN, by THEOPHILE DE VIAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darling little winged boys are clinging to our skulls
Last Line: Above a ship with such a prize betwixt her stern and bow.
Alternate Author Name(s): De Viau, Theophile
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors


THE BRANDED HAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome home again, brave seaman!
Last Line: In the van of freedom's onset, the coming of that hand?
Subject(s): Freedom; Punishment; Sailing & Sailors; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs


THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal
Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery


THE CAPTAIN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Solemn he paced upon that schooner's deck
Last Line: Riding at anchor, by a meeting-house.
Subject(s): New London, Connecticut; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE CARPENTER'S STORY, by ARCHIE BINNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well,' said chips, 'I was once in a barquentine'
Last Line: "you can't please a sailor no ways!'"
Subject(s): Carpenters; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE COLD WAVE OF 32 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is cold, o thaliarchus, and soracte's crest is / white
Last Line: Hurry, o my thaliarchus, let us go that to there place.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in
Last Line: That vampire conger eel.
Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


THE CORD, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why knot the amoret again? Lass, is loving worth the pain? The
Last Line: Snapped in two. Who pulled too hard? In faith, 'twas you!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE CORSAIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea
Last Line: Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Corsairs' Song;song Of The Corsairs;song Of The Rover
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE CRESCENT MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As though the power that made the nautilus
Last Line: And sailing onward ever seems at rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


THE CURE OF LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the fields are violet with heat in the mid-autumn evenings fair
Last Line: And you would know that day how great a thing is love.
Subject(s): Clergy; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Seamen; Sails


THE DEATH DANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O arone a-ree, eily arone, arone!
Last Line: O, o, arone, a-ree, eily arone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


THE DEATH OF COLMAN, by THOMAS FROST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas juet spoke - the half moon's mate
Last Line: One choking thought -- the loneliness!
Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); Native Americans; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness


THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sky of gold, a sea of blue
Last Line: Long island keeps the devil.
Subject(s): Devil; Legends; Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Sailing & Sailors; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Seamen; Sails


THE DOCK DREAMERS, by HARVEY MCKENZIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down at the docks on his lonesome beat
Last Line: Those gallant ships of his sailing days.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE DOG-WATCH, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweep on, the wave is curled with foam
Last Line: My native ground.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE END, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well now, these mariners - sailors, captains
Last Line: -o let them roll, parvenu landlubbers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


THE ENGLISHMAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a sailor in the woods
Last Line: With painted eyes to sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; English; Seamen; Sails


THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade
Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain.
Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails


THE FIRST AMERICAN SAILORS, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five fearless knights of the first renown
Last Line: Upon american sailors.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595); Sailing & Sailors


THE FLYING-FISH SAILOR, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The western ocean rolls and roars
Last Line: That waits for the flying-fish sailor!
Subject(s): Prostitution; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Ocean


THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: WITH A YO, HO, HO, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O could I sing as you have fought
Last Line: How to battle, to conquest, to glory, we dart!
Subject(s): Battleships; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Sailing & Sailors; Victory


THE FOREIGN SAILOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is what I heard from a foreign sailor
Last Line: Whispering, and gesturing with lean, dark hands!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home
Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean


THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS; A DREAM IN JUNE, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In twilight of the longest day
Last Line: And wakened half the world with me!
Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE GOLDEN AGE OF FIGUREHEAD, by MATTHEA HARVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First we sloughed off the sailors—when a storm hit we’d lean into it and watch as they slipped
Last Line: Was invented, like the giant tenor who unbuckles his belt and lets out his one truest note
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


THE GREAT EXPLORER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sailed o'er the weltery watery
Last Line: Of the kinkable cannibal isles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Explorers; Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


THE GREAT SEDUCER, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who looks too long from his window
Last Line: To disillusionment!
Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE HOME PORT, by EDITH PRATT DICKENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have gone down to the sea
Last Line: The brine-burned winds of home.
Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE HOME-BOUND SHIP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far out on the stormy ocean
Last Line: Bringing my loved ones home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE HOME-VOYAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear with us, o great captain, if
Last Line: Dip colors as you move to anchorage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Home; Peace; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Dead, The


THE HUNTER, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the blue, the purple seas
Last Line: And thou'rt a dream o yucatan!
Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Steer hither, steer, your winged pines
Last Line: He stay'd not longer here, but ran to be more idly spent.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); Sailing & Sailors


THE INVALID, by VIRGINIA FOLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old ships are tired sailing into port
Last Line: I dream the vagabondage they have known!
Subject(s): Boats; Freedom; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Sicily; Liberty; Japanese; Seamen; Sails


THE JOLLY MARINER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a jolly mariner
Last Line: A-cruising on the shore!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE KING'S SHIPS, by CAROLINE S. SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: God hath so many ships upon the sea!
Last Line: This deep is but the hollow of his hand.
Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; God; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; War


THE LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Celia and I the other day
Last Line: I with thee, or without thee, die!
Subject(s): Fate; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Destiny; Ocean


THE LASCAR, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another day, ah! Me, a day
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE LAST DAY: A SUBMARINE JAUNT, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As yawns an earthquake, when imprison'd air
Last Line: And sails secure within the dark retreat.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Submarines; Ocean; Submarine Warfare; U-boats


THE LAUNCH OF THE LIVADIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold, and fair marbles, and again more gold
Last Line: 09/30/80
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uguisu sing in the blossoming trees
Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 47, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, long ago
Last Line: We swept through clouds of fireflies
Subject(s): Nature; Sailing & Sailors


THE MAIDEN OF OTAHEITE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: And wilt thou fly me? Must thy fickle sail
Last Line: She was not with the stranger, out at sea!
Subject(s): Beauty; Sailing & Sailors


THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As some brave admiral, in former war
Last Line: And being good for nothing else, be wise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Variant Title(s): The Disabled Debauchee
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seduction; Villains In Literature; Seamen; Sails


THE MARINER, by RUTH ERICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was something about the sea that drew
Last Line: For again he is sailing the uncharted seas.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE MARINER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more adrift
Last Line: The life that used to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour
Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner!
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest
Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean


THE MARINER'S HYMN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "bark, bravest in battle of billow and breeze!"
Last Line: "queen of my heart, my joy, my pride! / my beautiful bark on the high, bright tide!"
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE MESSENGER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The messenger runs, not carrying the news
Last Line: And again, on his way?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Feet; News; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE MISSISSIPPI; JULY, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the silent mississippi, with his saintly soul aflame
Last Line: Far to eastward, far to westward, touch the shining ocean sands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; U.s. - History


THE NANTUCKET SKIPPER, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a long, long year ago
Last Line: "right over old marm hackett's garden!"
Variant Title(s): The Alarmed Skipper; 'it Was An Ancient Mariner'
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE NEW ARGONAUTS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the good ship sails!
Last Line: O cursed love of gold!
Subject(s): Fortune; Gold Mines & Miners; Greed; Sailing & Sailors; Avarice; Cupidity; Seamen; Sails


THE OLD 'CONSTITUTION', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the wind that greets the sun
Last Line: A hundred years ago.
Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Sailing & Sailors; Liberty; Seamen; Sails


THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw the old man pause, then turn his head
Last Line: "for motors and joy-riders! All it's worth."
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


THE OLD LAMENT, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What maketh lads so cruel be?
Last Line: And never once look back!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Lament; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE OLD RETIRED SEACAPTAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old sea-captain has sailed the
Last Line: In the cloud of his beetling beard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Discontent; Retirement; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dissatisfaction; Ocean


THE OLD SAILOR, by IRVIN C. KREEMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm too old to go sailing again, you may think
Last Line: And be feeling the bite of the spray.
Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE OLD SEA CAPTAIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the secluded, sleepy town
Last Line: Are his companions now.
Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping


THE OLD SEAMAN, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me why mine eyes are bent
Last Line: And all my home is—here.
Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors


THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winds were wailing round me
Last Line: The wild seas made reply.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE OPTIMISTIC SKIPPER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The skipper of the mary ann, a jolly chap is he
Last Line: "so long as I am sailing on the top side of the sea?"
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE PAPER KITE, SELS, by SAMUEL BOWDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The kite, completed thus, is borne along / by some blest leaders
Last Line: With her alike concludes th' advent'rous flight.
Subject(s): Air; Kites; Paper; Sailing & Sailors; Sky; Seamen; Sails


THE PATH OF GOLD, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn on the world's new shores. The path
Last Line: O path of gold to human destiny!
Subject(s): Freedom; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Liberty; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE PEOPLE'S FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of her darkened fishing-ports they go
Last Line: A fleet of memories that can never fail.
Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; English


THE PIRATE, by FLORENS FOLSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: What d'ye think I want o' stars?-risin'
Last Line: I feel them—o, I feel them a-draggin' of me down!
Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE POET'S JOURNAL: SQUANDERED LIVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fisherman wades in the surges
Last Line: And we to his wisdom are blind
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers


THE PORTSMOUTH SAILOR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back, o magical evenings
Last Line: To stories of over sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Family Life; New Hampshire; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Story-telling; Relatives


THE POST CAPTAIN, by CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When they heard the captain humming and beheld the
Last Line: But there isn't any music save a little german band.
Subject(s): Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails


THE PRINCESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A princess armed a privateer to sail the chersonese
Last Line: You may chance to find your captain not so brutal as you think!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE QUEST OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What were our forefathers trying
Last Line: Is what our forefathers were trying to find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Home; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE RATTLE-WATCH OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark to the rattle's discordant swell!
Last Line: If our patrolmen were paid in coal!
Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Police; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime; Seamen; Sails


THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old england! Thy name shall yet warrant thy fame
Last Line: Neath the red cross of england—the flag of the brave.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Marines - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; War; Waterloo; English History; Seamen; Sails; Battle Of Waterloo


THE RETURN, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When did your ship dock, jim dale
Last Line: The gas-lamps paled to day.
Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an ancient mariner
Last Line: He rose the morrow morn.
Variant Title(s): The Rime Of The Ancyent Marinere (1834)
Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds; Curses; Mysticism; Sailing & Sailors; Supernatural; Seamen; Sails


THE RIVER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far up on the mountain the river begins
Last Line: And bless thee in shadow and sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors


THE ROVERS, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, wilt thou go a-sailing,' said the janitor's boy to me
Last Line: And the right to moor to ring-heads in the far-off border lines.
Subject(s): Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE RUBICON OF YOUTH, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We launched a boat and were soon afloat
Last Line: On that wondrous cruise 'neath the arching sky.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth; Seamen; Sails


THE SAILING LIST, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was reading my paper, dully enough, when just as it chanced, I found
Last Line: Never, never, never get to go!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


THE SAILOR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Gloriously upon the deep
Last Line: And where her sailor slept, there slept his mother!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE SAILOR BOY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My life you ask of? Why, you know
Last Line: And what I will be for her sake!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


THE SAILOR BOY, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He rose at dawn and, fired with hope
Last Line: Far worse than any death to me.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Seamen; Sails


THE SAILOR BOY'S DREAM, by WILLIAM DIMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: In slumbers of midnight the sailor boy lay
Last Line: O sailor-boy! Sailor-boy! Peace to thy soul!
Variant Title(s): The Mariner's Dream
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE SAILOR WHO SERVED IN THE SLAVE-TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stopt, -- it surely was a groan
Last Line: O god, deliver me!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Murder; Prayer; Regret; Sailing & Sailors; Shame; Slavery; Violence; Clemency; Serfs


THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION, by CHARLES DIBDIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One night came on a hurricane
Last Line: "that you and I are sailors."
Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE SAILOR'S DEDICATION, by MACEDONIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Braced to the temple-foot by krantas' hand
Last Line: Spreads a broad shoulder, sleeping unafraid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macedonius Of Thessalonica; Macedonius Consul
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief
Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner.
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue


THE SAILOR'S RANT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How pleasant a sailor's life passes
Last Line: Chorus: then why should
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by JEAN ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And are ye sure the news is true?
Last Line: When our gudeman's awa'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Adam, Jean
Variant Title(s): The Mariner's Wife;there's Nae Luck About The House
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sailing & Sailors; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Seamen; Sails


THE SAILOR; A ROMAIC BALLAD, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou that hast a daughter
Last Line: I nevermore may steer!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE SALAMANDER ISLES, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Snaring lights surmount the sand-dunes of the salamander isles
Last Line: Would give the proper bearings for the salamander isles.
Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE SAME SUBJECT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When that your sail bent to the ocean-swell
Last Line: And left us only longing and regret.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Fortune; Lips; Muses; Nature; Sailing & Sailors


THE SEA OF THE TALMUD, by JOSEPH LEISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon is up, the stars shine bright
Last Line: That sails this vast rabbinic sea.
Subject(s): Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Judaism; Seamen; Sails


THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea
Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?"
Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind


THE SEA-BORN VINE (A DIONYSIAC LEGEND), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun leapt up the rose-flushed sky
Last Line: Ai evoe be vain indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vines And Vineyards; Ocean


THE SEA-BOY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and reef top-sails - ho
Last Line: Of his warm feelings on the faithless sea
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE SEA-WOLF, by LOUISE STEWART    Poem Text                    
First Line: The brown boats are sailing the wide seas tonight
Last Line: Frae ruth o' the sea-wolf, dear god, bield oor men.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


THE SEAFARER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "may I, for my own self, song's truth reckon"
Last Line: "his born brothers, their buried bodies / be an unlikely treasure hoard"
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE SEAFARER, by LULU VON STRAUSS UND TORNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ship was bursting with a mighty crash
Last Line: And he above--he also knows the deep!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE SHINING SHIP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I see the ships sail in, the sun upon their spars
Last Line: Oh, she's the ship for me!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping


THE SHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I made a ship of my cruelty
Last Line: And take on board a god!
Subject(s): Cruelty; Love; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


THE SHIP O' DREAMS, by FRANCES EVERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: If all our thoughts were silver
Last Line: And true dreams worth more than gold.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails


THE SHIPS OF ARCADY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thro' the faintest filigree
Last Line: In the misty filigree.
Subject(s): Arcadians; Boats; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Arcadia; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE SHIPS OF GLOU'STER, by RUTH HORNBROOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Decadent ships of brash display
Last Line: Come slanting portward, home.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails


THE SHIPWRECK, by EDWARD HENRY PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the poop the captain stands
Last Line: Preserved the sinking yawl.
Alternate Author Name(s): Palmer, E. H.
Subject(s): Disasters; Nonsense; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 70, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the appointed time he did compel
Last Line: Once more his prow the frothy seas doth spurn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 71, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His heart sings louder than the shrilling gale
Last Line: His full sail swells before the straining mast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But destiny swoop'd darkling on their course
Last Line: Thus only might they for such sin atone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): France; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S SAILING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me of your bark, o birch-tree!
Last Line: To the bay of taquamenaw.
Variant Title(s): The Birch Canoe;building Of The Canoe
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE SONG OF THE LIGHT CANOE, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the dew is fresh and the grasses wet
Last Line: When the flush of the sunset dies.
Subject(s): Boats; Canoes & Canoeing; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Water; Seamen; Sails


THE SONG OF THE MAD WOMAN'S SON, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High in the chestnut tree
Last Line: I watch for daddy's sail on the tide.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors


THE SPANISH FRIAR, OR THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, luck for us, and a kind hearty pit
Last Line: By way of thanks, we'll send 'em o'er our plot.
Subject(s): Catholics; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails


THE STAR OF DISCONTENT, by X    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou, sweet friend, would I might soothe thy / fear!
Last Line: One ray of hope—the star of disconent.
Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Optimism; Judaism


THE STEERSMAN'S SONG; ABOARD THE BOSTON FRIGATE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When freshly blows the northern gale
Last Line: Steady, boy! So.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THE STORM SHIP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her sails are wove of the fogs that flee
Last Line: For the waves wax rich where the storm ship rides.
Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE THOUSAND ISLANDS, FR. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY, by CHARLES SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bark leaps love-fraught from the land; the sea
Last Line: Ploughing, like a huge serpent from its ambuscade.
Subject(s): Great Lakes; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; St. Lawrence River; Thousand Islands


THE TOAST: A SEA SONG, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come drink to the toast that I give ye
Last Line: Drink health to our sweethearts and wives.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Sailing & Sailors; Toasts; Water; Wine


THE TROUBADOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows salt from off the sea
Last Line: Life is supremest ecstacy!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE TYNESIDE WIDOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's mony a man loves land and life
Last Line: For my bairn and my dear and me.
Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Widows & Widowers


THE UNKNOWN HAVEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break, o waves of ocean
Last Line: On some distant strand.
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE UNRETURNING, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drifting, drifting, drifting
Last Line: Songs of the broken hearted.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Parting


THE VIKING, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sister, flokar's ship is in!
Last Line: Until he feels her arms again.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Vikings; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky
Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore.
Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


THE VOYAGE WITH THE NAUTILUS, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I made myself a little boat
Last Line: "but I'll sail with thee no more!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mothers & Sons; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE WATCH BELOW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: His childhood's longings are come true
Last Line: Let the wet sea boy lie!
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages


THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A boat that sails upon the sea
Last Line: And watch and prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake
Last Line: As the waters fill the sea!
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


THE WIFE, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day was fair, the wind blew steadily
Last Line: Stunned by the thought of our own littleness.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Parting; Ocean


THE WILD WIND, by SARA NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's only on nights like this
Last Line: Childhood memory.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Youth; Nightmares


THE WONDERFUL FISHING OF PETERKIN SPRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fisherman bold was peterkin spray
Last Line: And he sailed and he sailed and he sailed away.
Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Salmon; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE WRECK OF THE 'ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of may
Last Line: Likewise captain bertie gordon, who behaved so heroically.
Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Heroes; Heroines


THE WRECK OF THE 'INDIAN CHIEF', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 8th of january 1881
Last Line: The people's joy was very great.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms


THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach
Last Line: And got lodgings for the night!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean


THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'WM. PATERSON,' OF LIVERPOOL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale
Last Line: "and in particular for fetching the crew of the ""wm. Paterson"" safe to dundee"
Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves; Ocean


THE WRECK OF THE EMMELINE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This tack might fetch absecom bar
Last Line: Stuck fast an' firm on the outer bar.
Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STELLA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the month of march and in the year of 1899
Last Line: But I hope their souls are now in heaven in safe keep.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fog; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Haze


THE WRECK OF THE WHALER 'OSCAR', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 1st of april, and in the year of eighteen thirteen
Last Line: Unsure.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The


THE YACHTS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Contend in a sea which the land partly encloses
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Yachts & Yachting; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THREE FRIENDS, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fate and hard foes are prevailing?
Last Line: The cliff, and the wind, and the sea!
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise


THREE MINUS ONE (REFRAIN SUGGESTED BY DR. RICHARD HOFFMAN), by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were three that sailed away one night
Last Line: And god.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THREE SAILOR-BOYS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three fair-haired youths sailed out to sea
Last Line: "james went to be fed; / but little willyum, he went on a bum"
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


THREE THROWS AND ONE, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still dusk shuts out the shimmering sea, / shuts in the shadowy shore
Last Line: Con sees the white face of his doom through all the world grown dim.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Luck; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wishes; Anglers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


TIDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here to the sweep of the shore
Last Line: Shall send to pilot thee.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Tides; Wales; Water; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore; Welshmen; Welshwomen


TIR NAN OG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The breeze blows out from the land
Last Line: That burns the heart from my breast with the wish to go!
Subject(s): Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through drenching deeps a ship is sailing
Last Line: Beckons and governs me!
Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails


TO A SEAMEW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I had wings, my brother
Last Line: Beachy head, september, 1886.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Wings; Nightmares


TO AN AIR ON THE SAMISEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little princess of the small slipper
Last Line: Is the one word, -- love?
Subject(s): Air; Death; Life; Lips; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast
Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit!
Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


TO JOSIAH ROYCE, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seaward he set his course, nor hugg'd the / shore
Last Line: And find the pole-star of your loyalty!
Subject(s): Explorers; Royce, Josiah (1855-1916); Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


TO MY BROTHER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you recall the fancies of many years ago
Last Line: How much we loved his dangers, and how we mourned his fall!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


TO THE LADY CASTLEMAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As seamen, shipwrecked on some happy shore
Last Line: New life to my condemn'd and dying muse.
Variant Title(s): To The Lady Castlemain - Afterwards Duchess Of Cleveland
Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Villiers, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Women; Seamen; Sails


TO THE MASTER OF THE 'METEOR', by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonesome on earth's loneliest deep
Last Line: And the meteor rolling home.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


TO THE MEN OF 'WARRIORS' WARD', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nightly, amid my books, I stand and view
Last Line: Will mend them when 'tis time.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth


TO THE SHIP OF STATE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware, o bark, the waves that wish to
Last Line: And shun the treacherous waters of the shining cyclades.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH], by CHARLES DIBDIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor tom bowling, / the darling of our crew
Last Line: His soul has gone aloft.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr.
Variant Title(s): Poor Tom;a Perfect Sailor
Subject(s): Mourning; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bereavement; American Navy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


TOM DEADLIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties
Last Line: And do'nt blubber like lubbers when I turn up my keel.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


TOM TWIST, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tom twist was a wonderful fellow
Last Line: Where it still continues to spin.
Subject(s): Activity; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Exercise; Seamen; Sails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OFF GASPE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few small huts, a narrow strip of cultivated land
Last Line: Have!
Subject(s): Greetings; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


TRAFALGAR DAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He leads: we hear our seaman's call
Last Line: Till setting of her sun.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 1. THE SAILING OF THE SWALLOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the middle music of the spring
Last Line: And their four lips became one burning mouth.
Subject(s): God; Ireland; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Spring; Storms; Irish


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 9. THE SAILING OF THE SWAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fate, that was born ere spirit and flesh were made
Last Line: The light and sound and darkness of the sea.
Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Tristram And Isolde; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones


TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat at the hut of the fisher
Last Line: Swiftly the darkness fell.
Subject(s): Disasters; Dusk; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms; Seamen; Sails


TWO MOTHERS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One night two lonely women met
Last Line: "would god that mine were dead!"
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


VAIN COUNSEL, by MARIAN STORM    Poem Text                    
First Line: She is very foolish if she loves a sailor
Last Line: But she says she never meant to; it happened unbeknown.
Subject(s): Advice; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors


VOLKSWISE, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A poor girl sat by a tower of the sea
Last Line: "just a token, just a glimmer of his ship's lant ... Horn?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Waiting; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails


WEARINESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snowy sails, silvery sails
Last Line: On the strand of peace.
Subject(s): Life; Peace; Sailing & Sailors


WEIN, WEIB - ! (THE COMPLAINT OF THE OLD LAKEMAN), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Too old em I to sail eny more
Last Line: They'll git you every time!
Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


WHEN MY TURN COMES, by BARRETT EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When my turn comes, dear shipmates all
Last Line: All the long night through.
Subject(s): Death; Duty; Fate; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Destiny; Seamen; Sails


WHEN THE SCHOONER IS IN, by BEULAH MAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The foreign sea-captain
Last Line: He'll never return.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


WHERE SHALL WE LAND?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All listlessly we float
Last Line: "where shall we land?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean


WHERE TYRANTS PERISH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sail on, columbus! Sail right onward still
Last Line: Where tyrants perish and all men are free.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Tyranny & Tyrants; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America


WHICH ANE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which ane, an' which ane
Last Line: Which sall it be?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Faith; Sailing & Sailors; Belief; Creed


WHITEHAVEN HARBOUR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, can't she? Listen! There's a volley!
Last Line: Ah well, let's go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


WILD WEATHER OUTSIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild weather outside where the brave ships go
Last Line: Where the sweet wife smiles in the cottage door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Storms


WIND FROM THE SEA, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Weary is the flesh, alas! With many books the eyes are dim
Last Line: But hearken, o my heart, the singing mariners that hoist the sails!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Ocean


WISHES, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Could I, with joshua of old
Last Line: We shall be cruising still.
Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


WITH GLEAMING SAIL, by EVELYN GAIL GARDINER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Speeding before the gale
Last Line: Who would be other than gayest of gay?
Subject(s): Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails


WITH WITHERAWAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whitheraways! - that's what I'll have to call
Last Line: The crying -- 'twill be easier for them to!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november
Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze.
Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind


YE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND (AMERICAN TEXT) (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ye parliament of england, / you lords and commons too"
Last Line: That yankee ships in time of peace / to any sport may trade
Subject(s): Navy - United States;sailing & Sailors;war Of 1812; American Navy


YOU SPOKE OF SAILING, by VIOLET SODERQUIST MOORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you had talked of anything but ships
Last Line: ... And dawn was not the only wakened fire?
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors


YOUNG MUNRO THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a sunny morning in the month of may
Last Line: Because they might return and marry you some unexpected day.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors