Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A CHANNEL RHYME, by CICELY FOX SMITH


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


START POINT and Beachy Head
Tell their tale of quick and dead.

Forelands both and Dungeness
See many a ship in dire distress.

The Lizard and the Longships know
Oft the end of friend and foe.

And many and many a seaman's knell
Has been rung by Manacles bell.

Gull and Dodman ask aright
A wide berth on a dirty night.

Bolt Head and Bolt Tail
Are ill spots in a Channel gale.

Over night to Portland Bill
In Channel fog it's just as ill.

And Wolf Rock and Seven Stones
Rest their feet on sailors' bones.

But from Nore Light to Cape Cornwall
Goodwin Sands are worst of all!





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