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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DUTCH PICTURE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Simon danz has come home again
Last Line: And sell him in algiers.
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years
Last Line: "I trust to know her grace."
Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean


BLOUDIE JACKE OF SHREWSBERRIE; THE SHROPSHIRE BLUEBEARD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Why doth thine eye gleam so bright, bloudie jacke?
Last Line: And lose -- more than a shewsberrie cake!!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Discretion; Escapes; Pirates; Murder; Fugitives; Piracy; Buccaneers


BLUEBEARD, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sending back the key
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fasten the chamber!
Last Line: The chamber is there!
Variant Title(s): Blue Beard's Closet
Subject(s): Murder; Pirates; Silence; Piracy; Buccaneers


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


CANCION OF THE PIRATE, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The breeze fair aft, all sails on high
Last Line: My country is the sea
Subject(s): Freedom; Pirates; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping


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 DEATH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The muse and the hero together are fired
Last Line: I ne'er saw rhw fellow of brave captain death
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;pirates; English Navy;piracy;buccaneers


CAPTAIN STRATTON'S FANCY, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white
Last Line: Like an old bold mate of henry morgan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Pirates; Wine; Piracy; Buccaneers


CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all you jolly sailors bold
Subject(s): Pirates


CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "strike up, you lusty gallants, with music and sound of drum"
Last Line: Which would a gone into the seas and brought proud ward to me
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy;buccaneers


CHILD HEART, by GRACE STONE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of loneliness she fashioned beauty
Last Line: "she cried: ""your highness!"" and knelt unafraid."
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


HOW WE BURNED THE 'PHILADELPHIA', by BARRETT EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: By the beard of the prophet the bashaw swore
Last Line: And troubled his soul no more.
Subject(s): Courage; Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Philadelphia (ship); Pirates; Tripoli; Valor; Bravery; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers


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


MARITIME ODE, SELS., by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, pirates, pirates, pirates!
Last Line: O my masters, o my masters!
Subject(s): Pirates; Sea


MARITONE, OR THE PIRATE OF MEXICO, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On barritaria's brow the watch-fires glow
Last Line: And with'ring . . .
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


MORGAN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, what a set of vagabundos
Last Line: Welcomed morgan the buccaneer!
Subject(s): Morgan, Sir Henry (1635-1688); Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


OLD PIRATE IN THESE WATERS, by ALI PUSKULLUOGLU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am too old to burn ships, even if I am a pirate don't mind me
Last Line: And they rub their freckled faces, their wet noses, their mouths
Subject(s): Old Age; Pirates


ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT. WILLIAM HOWARD ALLEN, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He hath been mourned as brave men mourn the brave
Last Line: It was a mother's -- and is broken now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Navy - United States; Pirates; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers


PIRATE STORY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing
Last Line: The wicket is the harbour and the garden is the shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 7
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


PIRATE TREASURE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, captain kidd was a pirate bold
Last Line: And a lot of sardine cans.
Subject(s): Pirates; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean


PIRATE TREASURE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lady loved a swaggering rover
Last Line: "hey! Jolly roger, o!"
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


PIRATE'S CAVE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the table when dinner's through
Last Line: And mother she gets the crew!
Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Pirates; Play; Childhood; Fancy; Piracy; Buccaneers


PIRATE'S SONG, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: With cannon ten on port and starboard
Last Line: My law, brute force and a hearty wind %my land, the open se a
Subject(s): Pirates; Ships And Shipping; Sleep


PIRATE'S SONG OFF THE TIGER ISLAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our prize is won, our chase is o'er
Last Line: Our first health shall be to him
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Pirates


PIRATES, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pirates, after all, were usually
Last Line: At twenty-one or so!
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


PIRATES, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm agitated when I read of pirates
Subject(s): Pirates; Youth; Piracy; Buccaneers


PIRATES, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm agitated when I read of pirates
Last Line: Insatiable they be, and everywhere
Subject(s): Pirates; Youth


PIRATES, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to me, you with the laughing face, in the night as I lie
Last Line: Come, old friend, come from your grave and let us be playmates again.
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


PIRATES AND ST. FRANCIS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pirates, st. Francis, it's time
Last Line: The movements of animals lull us to sleep
Subject(s): Pirates; Ships And Shipping


PIRATES' FIGHT, by JOSEPH SCHULL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The breeze was crispand the sea lay blue
Subject(s): Pirates


PRIVATEERING AND PIRATEERING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all ye noble warriors
Last Line: And not like foolish children, %try each other's heads to break
Subject(s): Navy - United States; Pirates; Privateers; War Of 1812


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


SIR ANDREW BARTON (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When flora with her fragrant flowers
Subject(s): Pirates; Sea


SIR ANDREW BARTON (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As it befell in midsummer time
Last Line: To bring them to my brother king iamye
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy;buccaneers


STERRET'S SEA FIGHT (AUGUST 1, 1801), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stand to your guns, my hearts of oak
Last Line: To columbia's flag she strikes
Subject(s): Navy - United States; Pirates; Sea Battles; Sterrett, Andrew


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 JEAN LAFITTE, by LOIA C. CHEANEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll sing the ballad of jean lafitte
Last Line: "lies all my treasure alone."
Subject(s): Lafitte, John (1780-1826); Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


THE BUCCANEERS, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, not for us the easy mirth
Last Line: The fearful joy of fate.
Subject(s): Pirates; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean


THE DOWNFALL OF PIRACY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Will you hear of a bloody battle
Last Line: They'd applause from young and old.
Subject(s): Pirates; Teach, Edward ('blackbeard') (d. 1718); Piracy; Buccaneers


THE FLYING CLOUD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my name is henry hollinder [or, edward hollander], as you may understand"
Last Line: But die a sad and scornful death down in this foreign land
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy;buccaneers


THE LAST BUCCANEER, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, england is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high
Last Line: To the pleasant isle of aves, to look at it once again.
Variant Title(s): The Old Buccaneer;the Pleasant Isle Of Aves
Subject(s): England; Pirates; English; Piracy; Buccaneers


THE PIRATE'S SPUKE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave the dull present, to seek awhile
Last Line: And the force of an iron will.
Subject(s): Devil; New York City - Dutch Period; Pirates; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Piracy; Buccaneers


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 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 RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ... At the close of a winter day
Last Line: "trade is fair!"
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


THE SACK OF BALTIMORE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer sun is falling softly on carbery's hundred isles
Last Line: More.
Subject(s): Baltimore, Ireland; Kidnapping; Pirates; Tragedy; Piracy; Buccaneers


THE TARRY BUCCANEER, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm going to be a pirate with a bright brass pivot-gun
Last Line: Neer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers


THE WEDDING DAY; OR, THE BUCCANEER'S CURSE; A FAMILY LEGEND, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It has a jocund sound
Last Line: With 'drink there! -- we'll have henceforth no more cakes and ale!!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Curses; Marriage; Pirates; Ghosts; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Piracy; Buccaneers