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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 OF KINSMEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pia bay wears a smooth, bright face
Last Line: And the other on to her grave.
Subject(s): England; Sea; Ships & Shipping; English; Ocean


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 MARINE ETCHING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A yacht from its harbor ropes pulled free
Last Line: A gray fog, drifted, and hid her from view.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


A NOCTURNE AT GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far out, beyond my window, in the gloom
Last Line: Out yonder in the gloom.
Subject(s): Cities; Night; Rivers; Ships & Shipping; Urban Life; Bedtime


A PASSER-BY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither, o splendid ship, thy white sails crowding
Last Line: In the offing scatterest foam, thy white sails crowding.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; 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 REQUIEM, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep softly in your ocean bed
Last Line: Who teach us how to die.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


A SALUTATION OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE SOVEREIGN, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Move on, thou floating trophy built to fame
Last Line: With thine own triumphs be crown'd sovereign.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


A SHIP IN A PIER, by ALEXANDER JAVITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: A ship is a slight thing
Last Line: That a city ever stood!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


A VOYAGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From morn till night one only change have we
Last Line: We see a ship, and then we ship a sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


A WINTER SHIP, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At this wharf there are no grand landings to speak of
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


ACHONRY (THE LEGEND OF ERIN'S HOPE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mood of the spring time subtly crept
Last Line: "^1^ ""malo mori quam foedari""—""death sooner than dishonour!"" see notes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Bells; Clergy; Legends, Irish; Monasteries; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys; Journeys; Trips


ADDRESS TO A STEAM-VESSEL, by JOANNA BAILLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Freighted with passengers of every sort
Last Line: Half sad, half proud, half angry, and half pleased.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


AFFRONTENBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time fleeteth, yet that castle old
Last Line: With bonds accurst, and pining sadly.
Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Ships & Shipping; Tears; Time


APRIL AFTERNOON, POINT LOMA (1769), by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There feasted on these heights wild earth-hued folk
Last Line: Swept down la playa where awed indians knelt.
Subject(s): Afternoon; April; Ships & Shipping


AT SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yea, we go down to sea in ships--
Last Line: And waft us home again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


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


BEYOND THE HORIZON, by ROBERT FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When men go down to the sea in ships
Last Line: "to beckon and cry, ""all hail!"
Subject(s): Death; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The


BISHOP GLOBE-TROTTER, by LEWIS SASSE II    Poem Text                    
First Line: Being raised to the purple gave me an itching foot
Last Line: Buddhists, confucianists, christians, and an atheist.
Subject(s): Cairo; Prayer; Religion; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips


BLUE CANTON-WARE, by SARAH A. ATHEARN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shelves above my desk
Last Line: Till canton falls!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade


BUCCANEERS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bold bad pirates on a bold bad craft
Last Line: Is just three kids on a makeshift raft.
Subject(s): Pirates; Ships & Shipping; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers


CARGOES, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quinquireme of nineveh from distant ophir
Last Line: Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Sea; Shipbuilding; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


CHOOSING A MAST, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This mast, new-shaven, through whom I rive the ropes
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Masts; Pine Trees; Ships & Shipping; Trees


COASTWISE, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ships that trade foreign, to london they
Last Line: To ships trading foreign that pass on their way.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade


COLLISION OF THE AYR AND COMET STEAMBOATS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vessel of britain! Proudly wert thou going
Last Line: Why sorrowest thou? Thy child but slumbereth.'
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


COMPENSATION, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea
Last Line: Lay the foundations for one island more.
Subject(s): God; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sleep; Ocean


CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise
Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies.
Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore


DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: And, yeah, brothers / while white/america sings about the unsink-
Subject(s): African Americans; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Negroes; American Blacks


DE GOOD SHIP, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'se bin watchin' long fer de good ship
Last Line: My good ship had done got in.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 2, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore
Last Line: Their beames abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Nature; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Translating & Interpreting


DESTROYERS, by HENRY HEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: On this primeval strip of western land
Last Line: Are bought with death.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War


DOCKS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strolling along
Last Line: Into salt and mist and foam and sun.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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 WITH THE OLD CANOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was twenty-five years ago
Last Line: That you are just as foolish as can be
Subject(s): Disasters;jesus Christ;pride;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); Self-esteem;self-respect


DREAM OF LIFE, by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the music of the wave
Last Line: Thus woke his wassail song --
Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath
Subject(s): Waves; Ships & Shipping; Dreams; Nightmares


DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high
Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed.
Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


ENOUGH SAID, by CLARK MCADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Votes for women
Last Line: Tells the tale.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Women's Rights; Feminism


EURIPIDES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea
Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most.
Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; 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


FAIR PLAY, by M. L. CLAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A monument for millionaires
Last Line: To the men who died with their jobs.
Subject(s): Disasters; Labor & Laborers; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Work; Workers


FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 1. THE PILOT IN THE MIST, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Steaming the northern rapids - (an old st. Lawrence reminiscence)
Last Line: Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.
Subject(s): 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


FATE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As two proud ships upon the pathless main
Last Line: So we two parted. Shall we meet again?
Subject(s): Boats;dreams;farewell;ships & Shipping; Nightmares;parting


FULL-SAILED, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, full-sailed like thought, a great ship
Last Line: When a great ship rides battling down to death.
Subject(s): Death; Ships & Shipping; Wellesley College; Dead, The


GO!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ship was waiting in the bay
Last Line: As we two go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Farewell; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


GOD MOVES ON THE WATER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
Last Line: "well, he could not pay his fare"
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


GOOD SHIPS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fleet ships encountering on the high seas
Last Line: And unto miserly merchant hulks converted
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


GREAT IS DIANA OF THE MANNAHATTOES!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Northward! Northward! Goddess of the tower
Last Line: The smoke of sacrifice!
Subject(s): Hudson River; Native Americans; New York City; Ships & Shipping; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


GREAT SHIPS, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a poem about the great ships that wandered
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


GUNWALES OF ICE, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every day I come to watch you pass by
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Presence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


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


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)


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 3. THE LOOM OF LONDON, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange far lives, manifold, each from the other
Last Line: "and again whispers to the walls of the unheeding city ""life."
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): London; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 4. THE QUEEN'S SONS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tide of the sea-listen, its breathing voice is triumphant
Last Line: "mine are thy sons!' he calls to thee, 'queen, rejoice in my children.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 5. THE DARK VISION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But the sea is immortal, he knows nothing, he cannot / divine
Last Line: First he found thee and crowned thee in waste dominions a queen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Mothers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore


HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, by WALTER PARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He stood on his head by the wild seashore
Last Line: Turned somersaults home to tea.
Subject(s): Mothers-in-law; Peace; Ships & Shipping


HORIZONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man whose ships never come home
Last Line: And night -- and stormy circumstance.
Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Destiny; Ocean


HOSPITAL BARGE AT CERISY, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Budging the sluggard ripples of the somme
Last Line: Kings passed in the dark barge, which merlin dreamed.
Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers' Writings


HUGGING THE SHORE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you think you will hug the shore, captain, to-day?
Last Line: "but I'll hug the cape of may."
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


HYMN OF PROGRESS, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dauntless as the pioneers / that pressed
Last Line: Moving, ever, with the dawn.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


HYMN TO THE SEA, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great sea, too much have fools impugned our empire's might, boast
Last Line: Sky, deposits evermore the infinite salt of stars.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


I HAVE NOT KNOWN, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have not known this thing you call the sea
Last Line: I should feel wonder ebb away from me.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Pirates; Sea Gulls; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Supernatural; Water; Piracy; Buccaneers


IMPRESSIONS, by JEAN MUTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold gray mist, o'er a gray sea swelling
Last Line: A ship in the mist, at break of day.
Subject(s): Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


IN HARBOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely there, among the great docks, is peace, my mind
Last Line: Yes, it is certainly of the high sea they are talking.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sea


IN MEMORIAM: THE TITANIC DISASTER, SELECTION, by H. REA WOODMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Impregnable foe from the arctic
Last Line: By that singing before the gate.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


IN PRIZE, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A ship was built in glasgow, and oh, she
Last Line: (but it's true, my johnnie bowline, true!)
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade


IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Death; Dead, The


IN THE SHALLOWS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the shallows where the sand
Last Line: My ships, that never came to port.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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


ISHMAEL, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifteen years I have known your face
Last Line: Turns with us lashed to its flank and sounds.
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Ships & Shipping


ISLAND OF SUMMER: 14. MASTS AT DAWN, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Past second cock-crow yacht masts in the harbor go slowly white
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


JOHN COMPANY'S SHIPS, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John company's ships, they sailed the seas
Last Line: John company's ships of the days of old.
Subject(s): Imperialism; Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping; Trade


JOHN MAYNARD, by HORATIO ALGER JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on lake erie's broad expanse
Last Line: A nobler funeral pyre!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Heroism; Death; Fires; Heroes; Heroines; Dead, The


JUAN CABRILLO, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: First from old spain you came, brave portuguese
Last Line: While skies burn blue, while lifts high loma's crest.
Subject(s): Portugal; Ships & Shipping


JUST WHISPER THE MESSAGE, by THOMAS H. MULVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lights were softly beaming o'er the brilliant ballroom floor
Last Line: The sweet-heart maid in calmness blankly prayed.
Subject(s): Disasters; Prayer; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


KILMENY (A SONG OF THE TRAWLERS), by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark, dark lay the drifters against the red west
Last Line: And nobody knew where kilmeny had been.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War


LANDFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Landfall at dawn, and madeira rose from the sea
Last Line: And sinking glad to his knees.
Subject(s): Hearts; Landfall; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


LEAVING THE HARBOR, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low
Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean


LIEUTENANT SHELLBACK, R.N.R., by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He has learnt the ways of the ships at sea
Last Line: But lieutenant shellback will carry it through.
Subject(s): Imperialism; Knowledge; Ships & Shipping


LINDBERGH TO HIS SHIP, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: And why not 'we?'
Last Line: So steadfast and so fair!
Subject(s): Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Ships & Shipping


LIVE IT THROUGH, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a huge liner stood in the desert, its crew leaning
Last Line: Live it through
Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares


LOVE IN OLD MEXICO, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed of ships sailing across the sun
Last Line: And thro' them all there gleamed the face of you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mexico; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares


MAXIMUS, LETTER 2, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: . . . . . Tell you? Ha! Who
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Work; Workers; Ocean


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


MEMORIES, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ships...They go,' said murphy, 'like a spent pay-roll
Last Line: "an' the times a man remembers . . . They're the best times of all!"
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Ships & Shipping; Time


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


MISSING, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was spoken off saint vincent, outward bound
Last Line: Things lovely and beloved, that are no more. . . .
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


MY MARY ANN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fare you well my own mary ann
Last Line: In angel form to my mary ann
Subject(s): Farewell;love;sea;ships & Shipping; Parting;ocean


MY SHIP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down to the wharves, as the sun goes down
Last Line: And watch to see if my ship comes in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; Sorrow; Sadness


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


MY SHIP, by J. F. HOUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I laid its keel with utmost care
Last Line: Where waves are stilled, where all is peace.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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


NEW YORK, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the violet vastness of shoreless and moaning / twilight
Last Line: The infinite hulk of the ship of my city pushes her course unreturning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


NITRATES, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All alone I went a-walking by the london docks one day
Last Line: But it called the days departed and my boyhood back to me!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade


O GLORIOUS SEA THAT IN EACH CLIMBING WAVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thou sayest to men: go back & come not hither
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ships & Shipping


O SEA!, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sea! O sea! O sea!
Last Line: With earth's humanity!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


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 I, 14. TO A SHIP, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet on fresh billows seaward wilt thou ride
Last Line: That stud the far-off main.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


OLD SHIPS, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside dim wharves, the battered ships are dreaming
Last Line: They fall to dreaming of the days long past!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


OLD SHIPS, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a memory stays upon old ships
Last Line: Blowing in mists, their spectral sails like light.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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


ON BOARD A JERSEY STEAMER; A MIDSUMMER SUNRISE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long had I watched, and, summoned, by the ray
Last Line: And woke, and sought once more the sea and sky.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


ON DECK, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight in the mid-atlantic. On deck.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


ON MEETING A SAILING VESSEL IN MID-OCEAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She moves on grandly 'twixt the sea and sky
Last Line: Then heartsick to our solitude we turn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


ON THE NEW AMERICAN FRIGATE ALLIANCE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As neptune traced the azure main
Last Line: "these sail -- to vanquish tyranny."" --"
Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States; Ships & Shipping; American Navy


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


ONE WORD THE SHIPS SPEAK, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Following night's trackless pathway
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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


OUR SEA HEROES, by E. J. THIBAUT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Carried away down in the atlantic
Last Line: For the woman and also, for the child.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


OUTWARDS AND HOMEWARDS, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still are the ships that in haven ride
Last Line: Look, and learn from the ships of the deep!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


PICTURES, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some likes pictures o' women,' said bill, 'an' some likes 'orses best'
Last Line: "you paint me a ship as is like a ship . . . An' that'll do for me!'"
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 11. PURIFICATION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remain thou in thy ocean-depths
Last Line: And my rescued spirit rejoices.
Subject(s): Hearts; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping


POEM: 3, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: God pat schope both se and sand
Last Line: And blis it with his haly hand. Amen.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; God; Ships & Shipping; War; English


RAGTIME!, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ragtime! Ragtime! Keep it going still!
Last Line: Gently the music fades away—and so, god rest us all!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Music & Musicians; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Dead, The


RECOGNITION, by SYLVIA GARDINER LUFBURROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: What ship is this that rakes her broken spars
Last Line: The name I gave you blurs along your bow!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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


RESURRECTION, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down at devine's hotel - where night and day
Last Line: Find in men's dreams her resurrection.
Subject(s): Harbors; Ships & Shipping


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


ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat upon a mountain
Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SAD VENTURES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood and watched my ships go out
Last Line: A crown linked to a cross
Subject(s): "cross, The;crosses;crowns;faith;farewell;ships & Shipping;" Belief;creed;parting


SALUTE TO DONALD DAVIE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine david, how a single
Last Line: Though only for a visit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Waves; English; Hunters; Ocean


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


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 5. STEAMERS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like black plunging dolphins with red bellies
Last Line: Up purple and chrome horizons.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SAND DUNES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea waves are green and wet
Last Line: For the one more cast off shell.
Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


SEA SONG, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our boat to the waves go free
Last Line: Fear not we the whirl of the gale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean


SHIPBORED, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That line is the horizon line
Last Line: The blue below and I are, too
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SHIPS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The harbor throngs with ships tonight
Last Line: With all the world in tow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by MARGERY ELDREDGE HOWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shining pinions folded down
Last Line: Something of the sea.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ALICE MARSTON SEAMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They know the vagabondage of the seas
Last Line: From those old ships at anchor in the bay.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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


SHIPS AT SEA, by ROBERT BARRY COFFIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have ships that went to sea
Last Line: Evermore, evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, Barry
Subject(s): Disappointment; Ships & Shipping


SHIPS AT SUNSET, by STANLEY E. BABB    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old ships come
Last Line: With similar speech?
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SHIPS IN HAMPTON ROADS, by GARNETT LAIDLAW ESKEW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the walls of gray monroe
Last Line: But I must stay and dream at home.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SHIPS IN HARBOR, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have not known a quieter thing than ships
Last Line: That mark the patient watches on the stars.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SHIPS O' DREAMS, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gray ships, the stately ships
Last Line: A-steaming down the bay.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean


SHIPS OF FORTUNE, by ISADORE DOUGLAS COYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The port of hearts' desire lies far
Last Line: For ships that never come home.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Wellesley College


SHIPS ON THE SEA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far down the dim horizon of my soul
Last Line: And follow still their vanishing trestle-trees.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 74, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind has such a rainy sound
Last Line: In the windy sea?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): The Wind;the Sound Of The Wind
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Wind


SMALL CRAFT, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When drake sailed out from devon to
Last Line: All honour be to small craft, for oh! They've earned it well!
Subject(s): Fights; Perseverance; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War


SOFT HAIL, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afterward, to tell how it was possible to
Subject(s): Motion; Storms; Ships & Shipping


SOLOMON'S SHIPS, by JOHN E. REINECKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ships, sailing so calmly
Last Line: And ebon wood to fashion three hundred cradles.
Subject(s): Navy - Israeli; Ships & Shipping; Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day a rude brief recitative
Last Line: All seas, all ships.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


SONG OF COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Columbus was a brave man
Last Line: Or sail-boats three!
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


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


SONGE OF THE SCHIPPE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When surly windes and grewsome cloudes
Last Line: The sun may rise upon the morn and guide us to a home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Storms


SONGS IN ABSENCE: 14, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ship, ship, ship
Last Line: Come quickly with it to me.
Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping


SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where lies the land to which the ship would go?
Last Line: Far, far behind, is all that they can say.
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 94, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the ships come wing by wing
Last Line: The waste of the heart which no man knows.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Love


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 95, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and up, they all come up
Last Line: In the golden weather.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Homecoming


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 99, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fishers are sailing, the fleet is away
Last Line: As a roseleaf of cloud on the rim of the sea.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 11. TRANSFUSION, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shoal-light flashes east
Last Line: And all the stars above.
Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Universe; Bedtime; Ocean


SONNET ON TURNER'S PICTURE, OF THE TEMERAIRE MAN-OF-WAR, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how that small concentrate fiery force
Last Line: Home of great thoughts, memorial temeraire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Ships & Shipping; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851)


SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156, by PETRARCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness
Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port.
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes"";
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


STREAMLINERA: OCEAN-LINER, by PAULINE JONES BURNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With arrow-speed an agile greyhound runs
Last Line: With vibrant power, conquers time and space.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


SUNSET-MOOD, by STANLEY E. BABB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Outward-bound for singapore
Last Line: Steaming to cathay!
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping


SUPERIORITIES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Malachy stamped the diving decks
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE 'CLERMONT', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack
Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow.
Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean


THE ALLIGATOR, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That steed has lost his rider! I have seen
Last Line: That lost his rider, and laid down, and died.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE BALLAD OF THE 'BOLIVAR', by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven men from all the world back to docks again
Last Line: "cause we took the ""bolivar"" safe across the bay?"
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE BEAUTY OF THE SHIP, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, staunchly entering port
Last Line: I only saw, at last, the beauty of the ship.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


THE BETTER SHIP - PANAMA, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Juan has a new ship
Last Line: "was better for me! . . ."
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE BIG BLACK TRAWLER, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The very best ship that ever I knew
Last Line: Oh, sing, my bullies, let the bullgine run.
Subject(s): March (month); Sea; Ships & Shipping; Singing & Singers; Ocean


THE BURNING OF THE SHIP 'KENT', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good people of high and low degree
Last Line: And when their feet touched english soil their hearts felt gay.
Subject(s): Accidents; Fire; Ships & Shipping


THE COMRADE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger by the tavern board
Last Line: Winnowed by the wave and sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Ships & Shipping; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The


THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a solitude of the sea
Last Line: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
Subject(s): Disasters; Icebergs; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Ocean


THE CONVICT SHIP, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morn on the waters! - and, purple and bright
Last Line: Where the dreams of our childhood are vanish'd and o'er!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE CRUISE OF THE 'ROVER', A.D. 1575, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They sailed away one morning when sowing-time was over
Last Line: Then kissed each other silently, and hand in hand they died.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; English Navy; Naval Warfare


THE DEAD SHIP; A KELTIC LEGEND, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ship came sailing, sailing
Last Line: Oh, my heart break!
Subject(s): Legends, Celtic; Ships & Shipping


THE DERELICT, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the staunchest of our fleet
Last Line: Falling afraid lest any keel come near!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE DISMANTLED SHIP, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
Last Line: Lies rusting, mouldering.
Subject(s): Decay; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence


THE DISTANT SHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea-bird's wing o'er ocean's breast
Last Line: For human hearts are there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Women


THE FARTHER SHORE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We gazed far out upon the lonely main
Last Line: And guide my vessel o'er this sea to her!
Subject(s): Absence; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FIGURE-HEAD, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The charles-and-emma seaward sped
Last Line: O, the breakers dance, but the winds they moan!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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 GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air
Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


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 GOOD INTENT, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They built her in the olden days
Last Line: "as honest as their grandads did!"
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping


THE GREAT TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock
Last Line: Sixteen hundred had to drown
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


THE GREEK GALLEY, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sound of the sea, the sway of the song, the swing of the oar!
Last Line: We are home at last!
Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


THE HARVEST OF THE SEA, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jealous sea moaned in the april night
Last Line: But through the world to-day, and up to heaven!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


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 HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone
Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean


THE INDIAMAN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aye! Exactly - that's the name
Last Line: "yes of course."" -- ""aw dear!"" I said."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man; Ships & Shipping


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 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 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 LIGHT, by MARJORIE A. SCHRIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Firm on a rock the lighthouse stands
Last Line: Wherever you choose to roam.
Subject(s): Lighthouses; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


THE LORD OF THE DUNDERBERG, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goblin and kobold and elf and gnome
Last Line: Strike flag to the lord of the dunderberg!
Subject(s): Fantasy; Gnomes; New York City - Dutch Period; Ships & Shipping


THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light
Last Line: To the placid supreme in the sweep of his reign.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Ships & Shipping


THE MARY; A SEA-SIDE SKETCH, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lov'st thou not, alice, with the early tide
Last Line: "while loungers idly ask, ""where is the mary?"
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE MAST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds that once my playmates were
Last Line: When o'er my wandering way they come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Masts; Ships & Shipping


THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two barks met on the deep mid-sea
Last Line: Such ties are formed below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Friendship; Ships & Shipping


THE MEMOIRS, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cutter risen from the mollusks, it is a god
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE MESSAGE OF FULTON, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: River of plenty and the peace of god
Last Line: Nor less with time god's plenty and his peace.
Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); Ships & Shipping


THE MIDNIGHT WATCH AT SEA, by HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dang! Dang! Two bells by the ship's clock
Last Line: On the midnight watch.
Alternate Author Name(s): James, Henry, Jr.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


THE MINE-SWEEPERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn off the foreland -- the young flood making
Last Line: "sent back unity, claribel, assyrian, stormcock, and golden gain."
Subject(s): Mine-sweepers; Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War


THE NEW ENDYMION, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the ghostly poplar-trees
Last Line: Bend o'er me on my fatal day!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE NIGHT PATROL; SEPTEMBER, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind me on the darkened pier
Last Line: And silent duty on the sea.
Subject(s): England; Night; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers; War; World War I; English; Bedtime; First World War


THE NORTH SHIP, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw three ships go sailing by
Last Line: And it was rigged for a long journey
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


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 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 SHIPS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep
Last Line: And the whole deck put on its leaves again.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus


THE OLD WARSHIP ABLAZE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Founder, old battleship; thy fight is done
Last Line: Dips out ironical that ship new moon.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English Navy


THE OLIVE BRANCH, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dove flew with an olive branch
Last Line: And every ship an olive branch.
Subject(s): Science; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Scientists; Ocean


THE OMINOUS TIMES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ominous are the times. They seem to be
Last Line: And pious lips to pray unto their lord.
Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Lightning Rods; Ocean


THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIP, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As borne along with favouring gale
Last Line: To hide its misery!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE PACKET RAT, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I leave this western ocean, to the
Last Line: It's the bloomin' western ocean what 'll get me when I'm dead!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PARTING SHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, in thy glory, o'er the ancient sea
Last Line: Fare thee well, bark! Farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Farewell; Ships & Shipping; Parting


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 PHANTOM SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In mather's magnalia christi, / of the old colonial time
Last Line: He had sent this ship of air.
Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728); New Haven, Connecticut; Ships & Shipping


THE PIRATEER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lightning flashed and thunder crashed
Last Line: Lay still in a secret sea.
Subject(s): Pirates; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Piracy; Buccaneers; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 229, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All of you are priceless gems
Last Line: Don't just sit there stiff
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ships & Shipping


THE PRISON SHIPS, 1776, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: O martyrdom of hope!-to lie
Last Line: Holds back to god,—earth's brightest answering star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Monuments; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Prison Ships; Ships & Shipping


THE RETURN, by ELIZABETH S. NOBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He sailed upon the misted sea
Last Line: Her arms outstretched across the sands.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE RHYME OF THE CAPTIVE MAID, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade
Last Line: And a long, long dream of the days gone by!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE SCHOONER, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just mark that schooner westward far at sea
Last Line: And that strong hand within unbars the gates.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE SEA GULL, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I seek not the grove where the wood-robins whistle
Last Line: And a white wing flap o'er his early grave.
Subject(s): Navy - United States; Porter, David (1780-1843); Ships & Shipping; American Navy


THE SHADOWY CITY LOOMS; NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH RIVER, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In deepening shades the haunting vision swims
Last Line: Seems a lost star.
Subject(s): New York City; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


THE SHAPES WERE OF MOTION, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shapes were of motion in their dreaming
Last Line: Are the shapes forever of motion in this dreaming?
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping


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, by LAURENCE B. RIDGELY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strong beams, wrought out from mighty trees laid low
Last Line: Speed, speed away with joy, across the plain.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


THE SHIP, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was no song nor shout of joy
Last Line: Or silks or gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE SHIP, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And lo! Upon the murmuring waves
Last Line: Across the unfathom'd trackless ocean.
Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher
Subject(s): 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 SHIP OF DEATH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE SHIP OF LIBERTY; LINES ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE 'NEWBURGH', by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O ship of liberty!
Last Line: Our hearts go forth with thee.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War


THE SHIP POUNDING, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each morning I made my way
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sickness; Illness


THE SHIP-BUILDERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is ruddy in the east
Last Line: Her white sails from the sea!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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 SHIPS OF GRIEF, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On seas where every pilot fails
Last Line: There is a sun will strike the sea.
Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War


THE SHIPS THAT NEVER FOUGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The great gray ships come slowly in, and range
Last Line: And yet no stain or shame is theirs—the ships that never fought!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; War; World War I; First World War


THE SLAVE SHIP, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The supercargo mynher van koek
Last Line: "there's an end to my occupation."
Subject(s): Blacks; Physicians; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Doctors; Serfs


THE SMACK RACE, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are they not beautiful? How light they float?
Last Line: Of quiet, happy nights.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE STAR OF THE SEA, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many a mighty ship
Last Line: Star of the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean


THE STATELY BLACKWALLER, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She hauled through the dock-gates when morning was young
Last Line: The stately blackwaller of days that are done.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 6. ON THE CORK PACKET, 1837, by T. BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The breeze grew strong, the waves show'd crests of foam
Last Line: Can no ennobling thoughts to them impart!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE STONE FLEET; AN OLD SAILOR'S LAMENT (DECEMBER, 1861), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a feeling for those ships
Last Line: Was your old stone fleet.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History


THE STORM, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How with ill nature does this world abound!
Last Line: I'll thence ride post to kiss your lordship's hand.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Storms


THE STORM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tempest rages wild and high
Last Line: Gloria tibi domine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean


THE STORM, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease, rude boreas, blustering railer!
Last Line: She rights! She rights, boys! We're off shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean


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 TANKERS, by GORDON MALHERBE HILLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: To bombay and capetown, and ports of a hundred
Last Line: Where they lie like long red patches by a jungle river's mouth.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 9. THE DEAD SHIP OF HARPSWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What flecks the outer gray beyond
Last Line: Who steers the ship of death!
Subject(s): Harpswell, Maine; Ships & Shipping


THE THREE LITTLE SHIPS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There, are great big ships and they / ride all day
Last Line: The pinta, the niña, the santa marie.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


THE THREE-DECKER, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail
Last Line: She's taking tired people to the islands of the blest!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The titanic left southampton
Last Line: All the women he tried to save
Subject(s): "astor, John Jacob (1864-1912);disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship);


THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock
Last Line: It was sad when that great ship went down
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As she sped from dawn to gloaming, a palace upon the sea
Last Line: Immortal life, who greeted home-comers from the sea.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me, do ye never hear it when the wind is / from the sea?
Last Line: Was that loyal note of courage which goes singing through the world!
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fights; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Valor; Bravery


THE TITANIC, by GEORGE A. HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Steaming so swift and boldly
Last Line: How quickly its is brought to naught.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was midnight on the sea
Last Line: Fare thee, titanic, fare thee well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly
Subject(s): Disasters; Johnson, Jack (1878-1946); Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, you must go -- ask not to stay
Last Line: Of life's great secret on each other's heart!
Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Jews; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship); Judaism


THE TITANIC, by BRAND WHITLOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this, the dark ironic spirit mocked
Last Line: And in the hour of failure, how to die.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC DISASTER POEM, SELECTION, by J. H. MCKENZIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And strauss, who did the children feed
Last Line: As went down in the blue.
Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC PYGMY, by ROBERT HUGH MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord, we have boasted we are wise
Last Line: And trav'lers to the unseen shore.
Subject(s): Disasters; Humility; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Vanity; Worship


THE TOW-ROPE GIRLS, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, a ship in the tropics a-foaming along
Last Line: "haul away -- all the way -- haul away -- haul!"")"
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: NAGELFARI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blinded he sped, the stars around him thrown
Last Line: The embattled host of heaven expectant held.
Subject(s): Bridges; Horseback Riding; Mythology - Norse; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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 VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive
Last Line: In those red gates of hell?
Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War


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 VOICE OF THE SEA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break, break, break
Last Line: Thou wilt in the coming day!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Anglers; Ocean


THE VOYAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some morning I shall rise from sleep
Last Line: By the dim quayside and embark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Variant Title(s): The Last Voyage
Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE VOYAGE OF VERRAZANO (1524), by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Verrazano, verrazano, child of arno's golden vale
Last Line: O'er the chartless seas of silence from a fellow voyager, hail!
Variant Title(s): Verrazano In New York Harbour
Subject(s): Explorers; New York Harbor; Ships & Shipping; Verranzano, Giovanni Da (1485-1528); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC, OR THE WATERY GRAVE, SELECTION, by SOLOMON SMULEWITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: There stand, in woe
Last Line: The name of ida straus!
Alternate Author Name(s): Small, Solomon
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship)


THE YARN OF THE BLUE STAR LINE, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a lad and went to sea
Last Line: As them tall ships o' the blue star line.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Luck to the craft that bears this name of mine
Last Line: Break the long calms, and charm away the storms.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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 SHIP'S MAST, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You did not dream of ships, o mountain pine
Last Line: So much we mortals know of destiny!
Subject(s): Fate; Ships & Shipping; Destiny


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 HER IN ABSENCE; A SHIP, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toss'd in a troubled sea of griefs, I float
Last Line: Where it for ever shall at anchor lie.
Subject(s): Absence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation


TO KALAKAUA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver ship, my king - that was her name
Last Line: Honolulu, feb. 3, 1889.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


TO THE BOSTON FRIGATE, ON LEAVING HALIFAX FOR ENGLAND, 1804, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: With triumph this morning o boston! I hail
Last Line: To the boat -- I am with thee -- columbia, farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping


TO THE FIRST SLAVE SHIP, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First of that train which cursed the wave
Last Line: A friend, -- a father in their god.
Subject(s): God; Pain; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Tears; Suffering; Misery; Serfs


TO THE POLAR EXPEDITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God speed you on your high emprise
Last Line: And plant the flag of england there.
Subject(s): Ambition; England; Flags - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English


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


TORREY PINES, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these strangers gathered on our shore?
Last Line: From tyre or sidon, yearning for the seas.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Ships & Shipping; Trees


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


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid-ocean, night
Last Line: Light sways slowly.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Steamboats; Tourists; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


TRIAD, by EDWIN C. GRABER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are like ships
Last Line: Bend over us.
Subject(s): Happiness; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Joy; Delight


TWO SWIMMERS WRESTLED ON THE SPAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And hands – beseeching – thrown!
Subject(s): Swimming; Ships & Shipping


ULTRAISTA ONEIRIC, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dream vortices broadcast / humorous din
Last Line: Bounces into unsteady calm
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean


VALE; FOR PAULINE JOHNSON, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone voyager! Thy ship of dreams
Last Line: The end of distance brings you rest!
Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


VIOLIN SONGS: OUR SHIP, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I a great ship coming home
Last Line: Is steering home this way!
Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean


VOYAGE OF THE JETTIE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A shallow stream, from fountains
Last Line: May guide us one and all.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


WAITING FOR THE SHIP, by JAMES HEDDERWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now he stroll'd along the pebbles, now he saunter'd on the pier
Last Line: And the morrow came -- but never came he more.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


WE'RE BUILDING THE SHIP AS WE SAIL IT, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first fear / being drowning
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Life


WHEN DADDY'S SHIP COMES IN, by RUTH ALBERTA MACARTHUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: O daddy, can I have a bike'
Last Line: "if we have faith in dad."
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


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


WINDJAMMERS, by LAURA M. GRADICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never owned a schooner, a barque or brigantine
Last Line: By the power of my loving the ships belong to me.
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping


WIRELESS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now to those who search the deep
Last Line: And a little child may lead them.
Subject(s): Death; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean; First World War


WRECK OF THE TITANIC, by REGINALD M. TEWKSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only an iceberg
Last Line: Under moonlit sky!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


WRECKAGE, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here by a churning surf, while breakers rave
Last Line: No bridge spans taut across your storm of life.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks