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| Searching... Subject: SAILING & SAILORS Matches Found: 456 "OH, DON'T I LOVE MY BILLY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At cruel fate I am a railer Last Line: For the sake of billy Subject(s): Love;sailing & Sailors;sea; Ocean A BALLAD OF BODING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams Last Line: Yet kept high festival above sun and moon and star. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life Choices; Monsters; Dreams; Sailing & Sailors A BALLAD OF JOHN SILVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull Last Line: A little south the sunset in the islands of the blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping A BALLAD WITH A SERIOUS CONCLUSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowd about me, little children Last Line: "would have run the other way." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Childhood; Ocean A CHANNEL RHYME, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Start point and beachy head Last Line: Goodwin sands are worst of all! Subject(s): English Channel; Sailing & Sailors A COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We reached the place by night Last Line: For the cottage by the water. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails A DARK NIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I long to pull the old man in Last Line: How dark it is; how far I am from shore. Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean A GRAIN OF SALT, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the wimming doubly blest Last Line: And sail and sail -- and let 'er knit. Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails A MOTHER'S SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little ships of whitest pearl Last Line: Whales. Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Pearls; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails A PEACE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a voice across the nation like a mighty ocean-hail Last Line: He sends us sailing on. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hope; Kentucky; Sailing & Sailors; Voices; Optimism A POOR FRENCH SAILOR'S SCOTTISH SWEETHEART, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot forget my joe [jo] Last Line: Is bible and charm for me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails A PRAYER FOR THE SAILOR, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: Outside my window howls the wind Last Line: May find his way to shore. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A QUEEN IN THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous flood Last Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A SAILOR BOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think I'd like to roam Last Line: Where mother and her kisses are. Subject(s): Absence; February; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation A SAILOR CHANTEY (ON BARK 'PESTALLOZI' OFF TRISTAN D'ACUNHA ISLANDS), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six hearty husky lads were we, / able to cope with storm and sea Last Line: And here we are to sea once more! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails A SAILOR'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We kissed good-bye in the gloaming Last Line: "till the trump of the judgment-day!" Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation A SAILOR'S YARN, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the tale that was told to me Last Line: As would go and lie to a poor marine. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean A SAINT OF CORNWALL, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know who saint mawes was, but he Last Line: Like a good old master mariner whose sailing days are done. Subject(s): Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Theology A SEA SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old albion sat on a crag of late Last Line: "that's as hereafter may be." Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs A SEA-SONG FROM THE SHORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Ho! Last Line: Though I never sailed back again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean A SIMPLE PASTORAL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aurora, lady grey, / hides her face in blushes Last Line: To our falls and risings. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English Navy A SOLITUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand Last Line: Beneath the coil of dull dense waves and hours? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean A SONG IN TIME OF ORDER, 1852, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push hard across the sand Last Line: The kingdoms are less by three. Variant Title(s): A Song In Time Of Order: 1852 Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Ocean A SONG OF DELOS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song was heard of old - a low, sweet song Last Line: -- oh, linger, seamen, linger on the oar! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails A SONG OF THE CRUISE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sun and the rain, and the rain and the sun! Last Line: But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Sun; Ocean A TRUTHFUL SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell this tale, which is strictly true Last Line: Both: we tell these tales, which are strictest true, etc. Subject(s): Bricklayers; Buildings & Builders; Sailing & Sailors; Shipbuilding; Seamen; Sails A VISIT FROM NEPTUNE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the good ship iroquois Last Line: As o'er the deep we rolled. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors A WEATHER PROPHET, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun as clear as a raindrop of fire slipt Last Line: Home. Subject(s): Drowning; Prophecy & Prophets; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weather; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips A WILD NIGHT, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm is sweeping o'er the land Last Line: That struggle with the sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A WORD FOR THE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men, born of the land that for ages Last Line: God save the commonweal! Subject(s): England; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English A YARN OF DAYS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now 'ere's a yarn as is true,' said dan Last Line: "an' they give 'im a pair o' binoculars along o' savin' bill!" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors A-ROVING (CHANTY), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In amsterdam there dwelt a maid Last Line: "I'll go no more a-roving / with you, fair maid" Variant Title(s): The Fair Maid Of Amsterdam Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors ACROSS THE SEA OF LIFE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I gazed into a maiden's eyes Last Line: Engulfed in glory light. Subject(s): Boats; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ADMIRAL EVANS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The wide seas search for him. But vain their quest Last Line: They fashioned him to fight — still fights he on! Subject(s): Evans, Robley Dunglison (1846-1912); Sailing & Sailors; War; Seamen; Sails ADMIRAL, HAIL!, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Admiral, admiral Last Line: Freedom and peace is the end of your quest! Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails AFTER JUTLAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city of god is late become a seaport town Last Line: The sailor he is home from sea to go back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War AIR: 'CAPTAIN JINKS', by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm captain hans of the submarines Last Line: I'm in the german navy! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Sailing & Sailors; Submarines; Seamen; Sails; Submarine Warfare; U-boats ALL AT SEA (THE VOYAGE OF A CERTAIN UNCERTAIN SAILORMAN), by FREDERICK MOXON Poem Text First Line: I saw a certain sailorman who sat beside the sea Last Line: "I must ha' told the one belongs to my twin brother bill!" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors AMBOYNA: SONG OF THE SEA FIGHT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who ever saw a noble sight Last Line: As this so brave, so bloody sea fight. Subject(s): Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs AN ELFIN CRUISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas a merry day as we sailed away Last Line: "a platter round for a boat we found, / and we made a sail of a glove" Subject(s): Mythology;sailing & Sailors AN END PIECE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close the book and say good-bye to everything Last Line: As over the hill comes the morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails AN IMPETUOUS RESOLVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When little dickie swope's [or, scrope's] a man Last Line: Ferever an' ferever! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Sailing & Sailors; Childhood AN INVITATION, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, pretty one, where will you sail? Last Line: I'm afraid! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails ANCESTORS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I know my fathers braved the sea Last Line: Indoors, a stormy day! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Sailing & Sailors ANDREW ROSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "andrew rose, the british sailor" Last Line: Like they did young andrew rose Subject(s): Sadism;sailing & Sailors ARS GUBERNANDI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Thy subtlest gift is steersmanship, o sea! Last Line: Skills not that day when rigid moorings break. Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails AT PARTING, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place I must go when my songs are done Last Line: And sail till you come to a star! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors AT THE NAVAL EXHIBITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What pulse but throbs, what heart but quicker beats Last Line: Only the seamen voiceless are and dumb. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Pride; Sailing & Sailors; Strength; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect ATLANTIS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the chill seas of yesterday Last Line: Why in the world were you ever begun? Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 21, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Argonauts without a ship Last Line: Cry aloud, and so awoke me. Subject(s): Argo (ship); Germany; Jason; Sailing & Sailors; Germans; Seamen; Sails AUGUST (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A day of torpor in the sullen heat Last Line: Within the arms of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): August; Nature; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines AZURE ISLANDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shipmen, sailing by night and day Last Line: One of thy murmuring fountains. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean BALLAD FOR CAPE HENRY DAY, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: From blackwall, hard by london town, on a bleak december Last Line: Adventurers, -- and comrades, across three hundred years! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages BALLAD OF THE CALLIOPE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the far samoan shore Last Line: A cheer that english-speaking folk should echo round the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Pacific Ocean; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping BALLAD OF THE GOLDEN VANITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It's I have got a ship in the north country Last Line: And they sunk him in the lowlands low Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;sailing & Sailors BALLADE OF AUGUST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Now, when the street-pent airs blow stale Last Line: Neath other skies, 'mid stranger men! Subject(s): August; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails BARACAROLLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay Last Line: Sink sail! For such a dream as love is lost before the waking. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean BATH AFTER SAILING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From ten to five we whacked the waves Last Line: Of flirting with immersion Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors BECALMED, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the equator / pauses the good ship Last Line: Rest finding never. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors BEN BLUFF, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ben bluff was a whaler, and many a day Last Line: "take a whale for a wife, -- not a wife for a whale!" Subject(s): Greenland; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean BILL BOWLS THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bill bowels was an amiable gentle youth Last Line: And they were taken on board and landed safe in fair england. Subject(s): Boats; Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Valor; Bravery; Ocean BILLY IN THE DARBIES, FR. BILLY BUDD, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good of the chaplain to enter lone bay Last Line: I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails BOATING IN AUTUMN, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away and away I sail in my light boat Last Line: And need not fear the greed of the evening wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails BOATMEN OF THE SKY, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The south-bound geese sail honking past Last Line: Grim boatmen of the sky. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BOREAS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He threw the pine tree in the fiord Last Line: A sort of roving fellowship. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Sailing & Sailors; Vikings BOS'N HILL, by JOHN ALBEE Poem Text First Line: The wind blows wild on bos'n hill Last Line: To join the bos'n's crew. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails BOY BRITTAN [FEBRUARY 8, 1862], by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boy brittan - only a lad a fair-haired boy - sixteen Last Line: "my darling, thou shalt rest!" Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1862); Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails BRIDEGROOM DICK (1876), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunning ourselves in october on a day Last Line: Dick drinks from your eyes and he finds no lack! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors BY STUBBORN STARS: SONNET 1, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver herring throbbed thick in my seine Last Line: Straight through the air my mooring line to you. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails BY THE NORTH SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, wind and sun, with light and sound and breath Last Line: My song to the sea. Subject(s): Death; North Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips CABIN-KID, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Your old man's a sailor, I suppose? Last Line: I'll get revenge-a sailor too! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails CAP'N STORM-ALONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather Last Line: Your old cap'n storm-along's lord of us all. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean CAPTAIN BING, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captain bing was a pirate king Last Line: It took him unawares! Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Disasters; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean CAPTAIN JONES'S MISADVENTURE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captain jones was five-feet ten Last Line: Had carried away his pennant! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors CAPTAIN MORROW'S THANKSGIVING, by LILLIE E. BARR Poem Text First Line: Over the waves the petrel sped Last Line: Well led by captain morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Thanksgiving Day; Seamen; Sails CAPTAIN ORTIS' BOOTY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captain ortis (the tale I tell) Last Line: Well -- half a hero was captain ortis! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors CAPTAIN TEACH ALIAS BLACK BEARD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Edward teach was a native of bristol, and sailed from that port Last Line: Of any such pirates as the inhuman black beard. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors CAPTAIN TOM AND CAPTAIN HUGH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're wantin' to hear about them two Last Line: And so I think I'll say good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails CAPTAIN WOLF, by LILIAN BURLEIGH MINER Poem Text Last Line: Puts his pipe in his mouth, and hangs out all the clothes. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors CHART 1203, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever works a storm to windward, sails Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors CLOUD SONG, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silken sails in silver galleons Last Line: From your merchandise of dreams! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wales; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen CLOUDS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O clouds, ye are ships in the infinite blue Last Line: Where you float. Subject(s): Harbors; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips COMMENT, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: A woman seldom knows the east Last Line: She moans to feel them move beneath the heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Women CONQUEST, by LOUIS LEON DE JEAN Poem Text First Line: Wake! Bold spirit of columbus! Last Line: Are the boys who sail the breeze. Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Air Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails CRUX VIA CAELORUM: 1, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loudly the winds do blow Last Line: Than is a sailor for a little gold? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors DARIEN, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waves swing hushed to the blue sky-line Last Line: The double world grows one—at darien! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean DARK SAILORS, by BEULAH MAY Poem Text First Line: Dark sailors lurch through alleys of the town Last Line: Where no voice echoes and no white gull flies. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors DAVID GWYN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: David gwyn was a briton bold who pined a slave in the hulks of spain Last Line: Nay, to each of us all is his life assigned, his work, his fate, his allotted part. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea? Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails DEAR SAVIOUR PILOT ME, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: As sails my fragile bark Last Line: When dawns the light of day! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean DEATH, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haul up the anchor, captain old, o death, for it is time Last Line: And hail the unknown dark to find a shore beyond the deep! Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails DESPAIR, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: As I came down the hillside Last Line: I've lost it all. Subject(s): Despair; Love; Sailing & Sailors DIRECTION, by ANNETTE TEMIN Poem Text First Line: This is a harbor where no boatman's cry Last Line: Upon some object not yet wholly known. Subject(s): Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean DIRGE FOR A SAILOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the bourns of time and sleep Last Line: This sailor's requiem! Subject(s): Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean DISTANCE TRAVELED, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit! Last Line: At the foot of the mountain. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips DOWN AT THE DOCKS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at the docks-when the smoke clouds lie Last Line: With a secret tide to a secret sea. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore DOWN TIME'S QUAINT STREAM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Or schedule of the tide Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Tides; Wind DREAMLAND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up anchor! Up anchor! / set sail and away! Last Line: Are thine for a day. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore EIGHT VOLUNTEERS, by LANSING C. BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Eight volunteers on an errand of death Last Line: Eight men! Who speaks? Subject(s): Heroism; Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Patriotism; Sailing & Sailors; Spanish-american War (1898); Heroes; Heroines; Seamen; Sails ELEGIAC SONNET: 69. WRITTEN AT EXMOUTH, ON SEEING A SEAMAN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, gold and purple, o'er the westering ray Last Line: Tho' poor and plunder'd, he absolves his fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR BURIED ASHORE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who but yesterday would roam Last Line: Whose will the water's will! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Funerals; Sailing & Sailors; Burials EPITAPH ON A YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sailor! If vigour nerve thy frame Last Line: Such tears will not disgrace the brave! -- Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sailing & Sailors; War; Seamen; Sails ERIE WATERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dash of yellow sand Last Line: With flying clouds and tossing gulls that weave and interlace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Waves; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean EVANESCENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing ships! Passing ships! Last Line: Must daily mourn some vanished hand. Subject(s): Life; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping FANTASIA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am a sea-flower Last Line: And let the good ship go. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean FAREWELL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, and when forth Last Line: Sail, a hopeless sailor? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean FARTHER SHORES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Their ships sailed on-sailed on; was left Last Line: Whose ships sailed on and far away. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore FRANCIS DRAKE; A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morrow, winter. / still the winds are foul Last Line: Drake. Christ comfort me! Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tragedy; Ocean FROM THE CANTEEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sailor, we shall miss you Last Line: In the peaceful days! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails FULL MOON, by BRENDA DE BUTTS Poem Text First Line: How can I sleep with the moon at the full? Last Line: ... Then in the dawning come satisfied home. Subject(s): Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails GHOST SHIP, by ROBERT NEALEY Poem Text First Line: I did not even then quite understand Last Line: She quickly sailed away and soon grew dim. Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean GOD'S MARINER; FOR THE NEW ENGLAND CONVALESCENT REST HOME, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leagues from the light by the harbor side Last Line: Who helps the storm-tossed brave the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): God; Sailing & Sailors HALO BLADE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simple, it said be mouth Last Line: Into long tinge remembered Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails HARBOR WATCH, by GRACE TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: I will go down to the wharf to see Last Line: Watching the slanted sails. Subject(s): Harbors; Sailing & Sailors HAWAII BOUND: 1. TRUTH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: All ashore that's going!' Last Line: Amid an earthquake shock. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Hawaii; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HECUBA: A CHORUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains! Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 1. THE SEA'S SALUTATION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The immense life of the sea, out of remote horizons Last Line: Passing, under the clatter of wheels and of crowding feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Tides; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) HOMELAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My adirondack mountain home Last Line: Where roots have struck down deep. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HOMESICK, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Shipwrecked in this grimy town, the worst / luck I have had Last Line: Oh! Tomorrow I'll be sailing out to sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean HOMING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The waves come racing to my boat Last Line: To kiss my love. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; War; Male-female Relations; American Navy HOW I SAILED ON THE LAKE TILL I CAME TO THE EASTERN STREAM, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of spring water, - thirty or forty miles Last Line: And staggers up the bank to pluck wistaria flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails HOW THE SAILOR RODE THE BRUMBY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was an agile sailor lad Last Line: To many still bring tears Subject(s): Animals;horses;sailing & Sailors HOW'S MY BOY?, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, sailor of the sea! Last Line: "how's my boy -- my boy?" Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney Subject(s): Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails I SAILED UP A RIVER WITH A PLEASANT WIND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The cape never rounded, nor wandered o'er Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors IMAGES OF MY DREAMS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The wooded hill overshades the river's placid brim and in its tranquil Last Line: Cloud-wrack grim. . . . And still more images will come, alas, to die! Subject(s): Dreams; Sailing & Sailors; Nightmares; Seamen; Sails IMPRESSIONS, by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN Poem Text First Line: Tattered eucalyptus trees Last Line: Arbutus springs from snowy bed! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails IN GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My matins are remembered well Last Line: Yet singing like a thousand birds. Subject(s): Drowning; Sailing & Sailors; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN HARBOR (ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND), by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One cannot call it sorrow any more Last Line: That might as well have stopped and anchored there. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER, by CLARA GORDON Poem Text First Line: No more he sits, with book and pen Last Line: And no more we walk earth's way. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails IN THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS, by K. L. SILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Blue are the skies in the land of our fathers Last Line: Sailing the ocean of blue. Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Judaism; Ocean IN THE SHADOWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sailing to the leeward Last Line: Down the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails INCANTATION, by RAMONA GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Thirty-six hours from singapore Last Line: Look what has happened me! Alternate Author Name(s): Cooke, W. R., Mrs. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails INFINITY, by DORA E. BAKER Poem Text First Line: When on pretentious seas I would embark Last Line: Except the vastness of the starlit sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INLAND, by JOAN DARETH PROSPER Poem Text First Line: He used to talk of ships, and I remember Last Line: (god! How I'm still missing him!) Subject(s): Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping IOLAIRE; LINES WRITTEN IN THE NORTH DEA ON BOARD THE S.Y. IOLAIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: This was the land that the norseman plough'd! Last Line: The phantom hosts of the norsemen glide. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vikings; Ocean IT'S DIFFERENT NOW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: In good old days upon the sea Last Line: Him if he's lost or won! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors JACK ROY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kept up by relays of generations young Last Line: Heroic in thy levity wert thou, jack roy. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors JAPAN, -- OLD AND NEW, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The son of a japanese lord am I Last Line: That foreigners brought japan. Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Soul; Japanese JOHN MARR, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since as in night's deck-watch ye show Last Line: To hear your chorus once again! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails JUAN CABRILLO, by BELLE WILLEY GUE Poem Text First Line: You must have dreamed of many sights and sounds Last Line: Remembering that far september day. Subject(s): Portugal; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails LAUGH OF A SAILOR, by LILLIAN S. RING Poem Text First Line: The dimpled waves of the ocean Last Line: But never a thought of me! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean LEE FORE BRACE, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was ten men hauling on the lee fore brace Last Line: That night in the wild horn sea! Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The LES CASQUETS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the depth of the waters that lighten and darken Last Line: The love of the heart of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You gave the youngster into my care. - he's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You put the kid in my care. He's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LIGHT LOVER, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear? Last Line: Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Feminism LORD ARNALDOS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The strangest of adventures Last Line: "who sail away with me." Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black at that depth Variant Title(s): Pacific Lament Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Battles; World War Ii; Naval Warfare; Second World War LOVE AT SEA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are in love's land today Last Line: Imitated from theophile gautier. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LOVE DISPOSED OF, by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here goes love! Now cut him clear Last Line: Now that he is gone. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years Last Line: Remembering. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LUX IN TENEBRIS, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: It was night Last Line: Asail on a blue-black sky. ... Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean MAINSAIL HAUL, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want none of 'is stuff,' said bill Last Line: "to make me think o' mike my pal, now mike 'e's dead an' gone." Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors MAN SAILS THE DEEP A WHILE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Your colours still shall fly Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seeking MARINER'S HYMN, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Launch thy bark, mariner! / christian, god speed thee! Last Line: Heaven is thy home! Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors MARINERS, FR. SHIPS IN HARBOUR, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men who have loved the ships they took to sea Last Line: And a lone ship that rides there with the moon. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors MAXIMUS, IN GLOUCESTER SUNDAY, LXV, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Osmund dutch, and john gallop, mariners, their wages Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean MERCHANTMEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago I stood by the sea Last Line: The fated ship that I loved so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Merchants; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MIDNIGHT SAILING, by ELYDIA SHIPMAN Poem Text First Line: The pier is dark; and shadows creep Last Line: And she was too late to say good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Parting MINED, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wearily, wearily, crawled the ship Last Line: As a woman shakes her hair. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The MOONRISE ON THE ANTARCTIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge white icebergs silently Last Line: Voyaging onward without sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Antarctica; Death; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The MR. PETER'S STORY: THE BAGMAN'S DOG, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a litter, a litter of five Last Line: He'll be, in all likelihood, blowing up mine!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Dogs; Sailing & Sailors MUTINY, by HEINZ RETTIG Poem Text First Line: The night was stilled, the shadows filled Last Line: A-rockin' like a rocker. Subject(s): Mutiny; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime MY SHIP, by CONSTANCE V. FRAZIER Poem Text First Line: Out of the harbor at break of day Last Line: And sank in a sea of gleaming stars. Subject(s): Dreams; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Seamen; Sails MYSTERIES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to the earth in its headlong flight Last Line: What does it mean to live and die? Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean NAMESAKES, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But where's the brown drifter that went out alone? Last Line: Ah, fare you well, my sailor. Subject(s): Hearts; Sailing & Sailors; Wind NEMESIS, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY Poem Text First Line: The man who invented the women's waists that button down Last Line: Of the man who invented the backstairs waist and he sank with the leaky boat! Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W. Subject(s): Boats; Enemies; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails NIGHT SAILING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver web across the sky Last Line: How shall we miss the starry web? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seamen; Sails NIGHT VOYAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no climate for stars. But upon earth Last Line: On a necessitous planet? Can the stars answer? Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips O TO SAIL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O to sail with thee, my dear Last Line: Far from heart-ache, far from heart-break, on the great heart-healing sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Togetherness OCEAN VOICES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The sea-birds sing on the mossy crag Last Line: Are the waters of shim'ring blue. Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean OCEANO NOX, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! How many mariners, how many captains Last Line: Of the blindman singing in the corner of an old bridge. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 16. THE SAME SKY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never thought until one night I' the / dark Last Line: And asked them to guide well my dear one's barque.) Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean ODES I, 14. THE SHIP OF STATE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh ship! New billows sweep thee out Last Line: That gird those glittering cyclades. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean ODES SUNG IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MARINE SOCIETY: 1, by ANNE (HUGHES) PENNY Poem Text First Line: Social virtue's liberal plan Last Line: Her foes shall bend beneath her yoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Christian, Mrs. Thomas Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth ODES SUNG IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MARINE SOCIETY: 2, by ANNE (HUGHES) PENNY Poem Text First Line: See these happy youths, now made Last Line: The golden band of social love! Alternate Author Name(s): Christian, Mrs. Thomas Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh. Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails OLD COMMODORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Od's blood! What a time for a seaman to skulk Last Line: "shall kill, till they grapple him at sea" Subject(s): Death;sailing & Sailors;sea; "dead, The;ocean; OLD SAILORS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I loved a ship from early boyhood days Last Line: And a new crew is born for aeons more. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails OLD STORMY, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stormy's dead,' I heard them say, 'he's Last Line: And she took and drowned herself at last, the night old stormy died. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The OLD TRINITY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was a merchant, and that was a belle Last Line: Sorrow and ecstasy, hatred and love. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Passion; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails ON THE VERGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here begins the sea that ends not till the Last Line: From the shore that hath no shore beyond it set in all the sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean ON THE WATERFRONT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lollin' on a dock-pile, pipe a-draggin' slow Last Line: All the ships upon the sea, an' all the things I know! Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ON THE WATERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat drifts in the heart of heat Last Line: Oh! Fly from the enchanted sea! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean ORIENT TO OCCIDENT, 1906, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep Last Line: For you the ship's machinery, for me the guiding helm! Subject(s): Asia; Explorers; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology OTHER LITTLE SHIPS, by EDNA BINTLIFF Poem Text First Line: Oh you little, wand'ring little Last Line: Leaving you, alone. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Solitude; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness OUTWARD BOUND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sailing, sailing, / over the waters and over the world Last Line: Our eeriest fancies, strangest fears. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips OUTWARD BOUND, by NOWELL OXLAND Poem Text First Line: There's a waterfall I'm leaving Last Line: We shall go not forth again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxland, Noel Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War PAIN IN A PLEASURE BOAT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shove off there! Ship the rudder, bill - cast off! She's under way! Last Line: Well, heaven be praised! But I'll not go a-sailing any more! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails PARTING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The moon elves dance upon the lake Last Line: Across the sea! Subject(s): Farewell; Longing; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Parting PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 10. THE OCEAN'S SPECTRE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But I upon the ship's edge was lying Last Line: "why, doctor, are you mad?" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 5. THE SONG OF THE OCEANIDES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows of evening o'er ocean are falling Last Line: And long I sat in the darkness, with weeping. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PITCH O' PINE SONNETS: 1. JOHN'S MARY, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John's mary ripened golden as the wheat Last Line: Why mary sought a sailor, -- and left john to weep. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails PLAYING IT SAFE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail not too far to be safe, o licinius! Last Line: Close to your chest. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Danger; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails PLYMOUTH HARBOUR, by EMILY N. HOXIE Poem Text First Line: I little thought to see red sails Last Line: In devon hills at dawning. Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean POEM: 10, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: I wald noght spare for to speke, wist I to spede Last Line: For when þe stode in powre strenkith -- þe war all to stout. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; War POPULAR SONG OF TUSCANY: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Passing across the billowy sea Last Line: They said that I had given it thee Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors QUO ABEO?, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading Last Line: Alone, alone! Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips RAINY DAY, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: The patient rain falls in a hush Last Line: After the sails come down. Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors RE-VOYAGE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the days when we two dreamed together? Last Line: My lone canoe and I. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Summer; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness READY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails RECOMPENSE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Where the green fir-tips meet the sapphire sky Last Line: For you can sing. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages RED SNAILS, by MAE BAKER HENLINE Poem Text First Line: Mere pin points on the horizon Last Line: Red sails when the journey's done! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sun; Seamen; Sails; Ocean REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean RESCUE, RESCUE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I need you like a sailor needs Last Line: The rescues succeed without regrets. Subject(s): Desire; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails RETROSPECT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't it rum?' said dan one day Last Line: "what he likes best -- till it goes?" Subject(s): Harbors; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping REUBEN JAMES, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three ships of war had preble when he left the naples shore Last Line: For god never ranks his sailors by the register of earth! Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); James, Reuben; Navy - United States; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Tripoli; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails REVISIONIST POEM: MACHADO, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor and desperate men Last Line: And the fear of drowning Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Fear; Drowning ROMANCE (SEAMEN'S STRIKE), by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud legions strode the valley of the days Last Line: Their surly clamour for a louseless bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Labor Unions; Sailing & Sailors; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts ROSAMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One soweth and another reapeth Last Line: Too true! Too true! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Spain; Women; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SAILING, by DOROTHY ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Swiftly cutting through the water Last Line: Nor sigh; but sing and laugh with me. Subject(s): Boats; Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails SAILING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helping her with her knots Last Line: Together against the breakers Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SAILING, by RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair luna shines bright Last Line: Ere they sink in life's ocean so wide. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors SAILING BEYOND SEAS (OLD STYLE), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought the stars were blinking bright Last Line: Did mourn, and mourn, and mourn. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SAILS OF MURMUR, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose blade runs through beam Last Line: If it please the dawn Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SALT WIND, by EVELYN MARA Poem Text First Line: There is something in the wind that blows Last Line: Calls louder to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The SAN DIEGO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the college san fernando, in the state of mejico Last Line: ^1^ the yucca, or spanish bayonet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Missions & Missionaries; Sailing & Sailors; San Diego, California; Soldiers; Declaration Day SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 1. SAILBOATS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating Last Line: Heeling and tossing about in the estuary. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SARK OF THE LEEWARDS, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wreck of all that's solid, big and fine' Last Line: "again the choice was mine, all mine! Amen." Subject(s): Fate; Sailing & Sailors; Destiny; Seamen; Sails SATURDAY NIGHT AT SEA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother stood by the pebbled shore Last Line: "pledge gayly back in ruddy wine." Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SEA DREAMS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Sailor, sailor, why must you go Last Line: Playing with dreams by the sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Tides; Water SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck Last Line: Twill be memorial day. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day SEA-GRASSES: DEDICATION, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, my shipmates and my brothers, who Last Line: These songs -- this log-book of a long-past cruise. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors SEA-GRASSES: L'ENVOI, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not the sweet solitude which poets love Last Line: Leaves all things for the muses' magic cup. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors SEA-SECRETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Little one, woman-one, whither are you sailing? Last Line: Is my heart your haven, or his? Subject(s): Fidelity; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SETH, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seth was right in holding to Last Line: Had been a banner for his eyes. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean SHEKLA: A VISION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Shekla's magic island lay Last Line: Writes this tale of shekla here. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Heaven; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]" Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean SIX SAILORS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SO LONG, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All coiled down, an' it's time for us to go Last Line: An' so long, sailorman . . . Good luck to you. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Parting SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 4. WIND OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the sea, come fill my sail Last Line: And bear me away! -- away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Wind; Ocean; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron SOMETIMES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I long for a lazy isle Last Line: Back to the whirl again! Subject(s): Rest; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips SONG A SCHOLAR AND HIS MISTRESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look, look! I see - I see my love appear! Last Line: [they run out together hand in hand. Subject(s): Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails SONG FOR COLUMBUS DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I took my three little trusty boats Last Line: The niña, and santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF THE MARINERS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miser will hold his darling gold Last Line: And are ready for death whene'er it may come. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SONG OF THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far out, blue ocean! O'er thy wave Last Line: Shall tread earth by my side. Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean SONG OF THE SHIPS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great ships go a-shouldering Last Line: And sail no more, no more! Subject(s): Decay; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence; Beach; Coast; Shore SONG OF THE SUNBURNED SAILORS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the sea their hearts they vow. They will not come again. And Last Line: Would they have really come? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE WANDERING KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My ornaments are sword and spear Last Line: May bid these knightly lips kiss thee Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Journeys;trips SONG ON THE WATER (2), by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As mad sexton's bell, tolling Last Line: Moonily. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Love; Seamen; Sails SONNET: 11. OUTWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide Last Line: Go gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! Subject(s): Blessings; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor judge me light, tho' light at times I seem Last Line: Whom easy taste, the golden pilot, steered. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Light; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you Last Line: With thinking of your woe! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Spain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails SPARTA, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of sparta...Of the withered hill Last Line: On athens of the everlasting light. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Sparta, Greece; Towns; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips SPREAD THE SHEET TO THE WIND, by HUGH C. WILSON Poem Text First Line: Spread the sheet to the wind, let's away, let's away! Last Line: Spread the sheet to the wind, let's be merry to-night. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors STANLEY WARE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now as sinks the new year's sun Last Line: Hours celestial — stanley ware! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The STANZAS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou at eventide art roaming Last Line: I think of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips STARDUST, by ALICE WILBUR Poem Text First Line: I loved a lad with summer eyes Last Line: To a lad in far shanghai? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors STEEL RAILS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sailed out o' sunderland with a cargo o' rails Last Line: An' he'll sail out o' sunderland with steel rails no more! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors SUNRISE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dim light to the sou'ward Last Line: Climbs up out of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Dawn; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sunrise; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SUTHERLAND'S GRAVE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long the sea out yonder - all night long the wailful sea Last Line: In the leaves above the sailor buried ninety years ago. Subject(s): Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Sutherland, Forby (d. 1770); Tombs; Tombstones; Seamen; Sails TACKING SHIP OFF SHORE, by WALTER MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: The weather-leech of the topsail shivers Last Line: Eight bells have struck, and my watch is below. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TALE: 20. THE BROTHERS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Than old george fletcher, on the british coast Last Line: Without a hope in life -- without a wish to die. Subject(s): Brothers; Sailing & Sailors; Half-brothers; Seamen; Sails TALES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often at sea, when fishing nets are down Last Line: Still keep their fairies singing on the weirs. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ireland; Sailing & Sailors; Anglers; Irish; Seamen; Sails TARPAULING JACKET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a young jolly brisk sailor Last Line: And fiddle and dance to my grave Subject(s): Death;drinks & Drinking;love;sailing & Sailors; "dead, The; THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without rudder, without sail Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate! Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean THE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud, o proud in his oaken hall Last Line: Who had fought, bravely fought the good fight. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE AERIAL CITY, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But proffers no pinions to fly. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE BALLAD OF BAZILE BORGNE, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: Always the river called to him Last Line: Arms unseen now cling to him! Subject(s): Boats; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE BALLAD OF GREGORIE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I have now an argosy, a-sailing on the sea Last Line: You'll live in peace and plenty on an island all your own. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE BALLAD OF MACINDOE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Macindoe was a scotchman-had other failings, too Last Line: But I never believed the tale. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE BALLADE OF THE GOLDEN HORN, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were mariners long agone Last Line: And die for a glimpse of the golden horn. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Yale University; Seamen; Sails THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 18th of august in the year of 1798 Last Line: That thanksgiving should be returned to god for the victory complete. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Nile (river); Sailing & Sailors; Victory; War; Dead, The THE BEST KICK, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I met a gentleman keen on walking Last Line: "count me in on it, lad,"" said I." Subject(s): Flight; Sailing & Sailors; Walking; Flying; Seamen; Sails THE BOATMAN'S SONG, by ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: Down-stream 'tis all by moonlight Last Line: Long in the sand remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE BOATMEN, by THEOPHILE DE VIAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darling little winged boys are clinging to our skulls Last Line: Above a ship with such a prize betwixt her stern and bow. Alternate Author Name(s): De Viau, Theophile Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors THE BRANDED HAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome home again, brave seaman! Last Line: In the van of freedom's onset, the coming of that hand? Subject(s): Freedom; Punishment; Sailing & Sailors; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery THE CAPTAIN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solemn he paced upon that schooner's deck Last Line: Riding at anchor, by a meeting-house. Subject(s): New London, Connecticut; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE CARPENTER'S STORY, by ARCHIE BINNS Poem Text First Line: Well,' said chips, 'I was once in a barquentine' Last Line: "you can't please a sailor no ways!'" Subject(s): Carpenters; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE COLD WAVE OF 32 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold, o thaliarchus, and soracte's crest is / white Last Line: Hurry, o my thaliarchus, let us go that to there place. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in Last Line: That vampire conger eel. Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE CORD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Why knot the amoret again? Lass, is loving worth the pain? The Last Line: Snapped in two. Who pulled too hard? In faith, 'twas you! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE CORSAIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea Last Line: Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Corsairs' Song;song Of The Corsairs;song Of The Rover Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE CRESCENT MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the power that made the nautilus Last Line: And sailing onward ever seems at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE CURE OF LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When the fields are violet with heat in the mid-autumn evenings fair Last Line: And you would know that day how great a thing is love. Subject(s): Clergy; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Seamen; Sails THE DEATH DANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O arone a-ree, eily arone, arone! Last Line: O, o, arone, a-ree, eily arone! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE DEATH OF COLMAN, by THOMAS FROST Poem Text First Line: Twas juet spoke - the half moon's mate Last Line: One choking thought -- the loneliness! Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); Native Americans; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sky of gold, a sea of blue Last Line: Long island keeps the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Legends; Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Sailing & Sailors; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Seamen; Sails THE DOCK DREAMERS, by HARVEY MCKENZIE Poem Text First Line: Down at the docks on his lonesome beat Last Line: Those gallant ships of his sailing days. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE DOG-WATCH, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweep on, the wave is curled with foam Last Line: My native ground. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE END, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Well now, these mariners - sailors, captains Last Line: -o let them roll, parvenu landlubbers! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails THE ENGLISHMAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a sailor in the woods Last Line: With painted eyes to sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; English; Seamen; Sails THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE FIRST AMERICAN SAILORS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five fearless knights of the first renown Last Line: Upon american sailors. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): America - Exploration; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595); Sailing & Sailors THE FLYING-FISH SAILOR, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The western ocean rolls and roars Last Line: That waits for the flying-fish sailor! Subject(s): Prostitution; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Ocean THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: WITH A YO, HO, HO, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O could I sing as you have fought Last Line: How to battle, to conquest, to glory, we dart! Subject(s): Battleships; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Sailing & Sailors; Victory THE FOREIGN SAILOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is what I heard from a foreign sailor Last Line: Whispering, and gesturing with lean, dark hands! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS; A DREAM IN JUNE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In twilight of the longest day Last Line: And wakened half the world with me! Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore THE GOLDEN AGE OF FIGUREHEAD, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First we sloughed off the sailors—when a storm hit we’d lean into it and watch as they slipped Last Line: Was invented, like the giant tenor who unbuckles his belt and lets out his one truest note Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping THE GREAT EXPLORER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sailed o'er the weltery watery Last Line: Of the kinkable cannibal isles. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Explorers; Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE GREAT SEDUCER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who looks too long from his window Last Line: To disillusionment! Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOME PORT, by EDITH PRATT DICKENS Poem Text First Line: We have gone down to the sea Last Line: The brine-burned winds of home. Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE HOME-BOUND SHIP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out on the stormy ocean Last Line: Bringing my loved ones home. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE HOME-VOYAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bear with us, o great captain, if Last Line: Dip colors as you move to anchorage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Home; Peace; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Dead, The THE HUNTER, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue, the purple seas Last Line: And thou'rt a dream o yucatan! Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steer hither, steer, your winged pines Last Line: He stay'd not longer here, but ran to be more idly spent. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); Sailing & Sailors THE INVALID, by VIRGINIA FOLEY Poem Text First Line: Old ships are tired sailing into port Last Line: I dream the vagabondage they have known! Subject(s): Boats; Freedom; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Sicily; Liberty; Japanese; Seamen; Sails THE JOLLY MARINER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a jolly mariner Last Line: A-cruising on the shore! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE KING'S SHIPS, by CAROLINE S. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: God hath so many ships upon the sea! Last Line: This deep is but the hollow of his hand. Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; God; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; War THE LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Celia and I the other day Last Line: I with thee, or without thee, die! Subject(s): Fate; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Destiny; Ocean THE LASCAR, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, ah! Me, a day Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE LAST DAY: A SUBMARINE JAUNT, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As yawns an earthquake, when imprison'd air Last Line: And sails secure within the dark retreat. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Submarines; Ocean; Submarine Warfare; U-boats THE LAUNCH OF THE LIVADIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold, and fair marbles, and again more gold Last Line: 09/30/80 Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH Poet's Biography First Line: Uguisu sing in the blossoming trees Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 47, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, long ago Last Line: We swept through clouds of fireflies Subject(s): Nature; Sailing & Sailors THE MAIDEN OF OTAHEITE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: And wilt thou fly me? Must thy fickle sail Last Line: She was not with the stranger, out at sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Sailing & Sailors THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As some brave admiral, in former war Last Line: And being good for nothing else, be wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): The Disabled Debauchee Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seduction; Villains In Literature; Seamen; Sails THE MARINER, by RUTH ERICKSON Poem Text First Line: There was something about the sea that drew Last Line: For again he is sailing the uncharted seas. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE MARINER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more adrift Last Line: The life that used to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean THE MARINER'S HYMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bark, bravest in battle of billow and breeze!" Last Line: "queen of my heart, my joy, my pride! / my beautiful bark on the high, bright tide!" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE MESSENGER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The messenger runs, not carrying the news Last Line: And again, on his way? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Feet; News; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MISSISSIPPI; JULY, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the silent mississippi, with his saintly soul aflame Last Line: Far to eastward, far to westward, touch the shining ocean sands. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; U.s. - History THE NANTUCKET SKIPPER, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a long, long year ago Last Line: "right over old marm hackett's garden!" Variant Title(s): The Alarmed Skipper; 'it Was An Ancient Mariner' Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE NEW ARGONAUTS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the good ship sails! Last Line: O cursed love of gold! Subject(s): Fortune; Gold Mines & Miners; Greed; Sailing & Sailors; Avarice; Cupidity; Seamen; Sails THE OLD 'CONSTITUTION', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the wind that greets the sun Last Line: A hundred years ago. Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Sailing & Sailors; Liberty; Seamen; Sails THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER Poem Text First Line: I saw the old man pause, then turn his head Last Line: "for motors and joy-riders! All it's worth." Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE OLD LAMENT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What maketh lads so cruel be? Last Line: And never once look back! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Lament; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE OLD RETIRED SEACAPTAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old sea-captain has sailed the Last Line: In the cloud of his beetling beard. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Discontent; Retirement; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dissatisfaction; Ocean THE OLD SAILOR, by IRVIN C. KREEMER Poem Text First Line: I'm too old to go sailing again, you may think Last Line: And be feeling the bite of the spray. Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE OLD SEA CAPTAIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: In the secluded, sleepy town Last Line: Are his companions now. Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE OLD SEAMAN, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why mine eyes are bent Last Line: And all my home is—here. Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds were wailing round me Last Line: The wild seas made reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore THE OPTIMISTIC SKIPPER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skipper of the mary ann, a jolly chap is he Last Line: "so long as I am sailing on the top side of the sea?" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE PAPER KITE, SELS, by SAMUEL BOWDEN Poem Text First Line: The kite, completed thus, is borne along / by some blest leaders Last Line: With her alike concludes th' advent'rous flight. Subject(s): Air; Kites; Paper; Sailing & Sailors; Sky; Seamen; Sails THE PATH OF GOLD, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Dawn on the world's new shores. The path Last Line: O path of gold to human destiny! Subject(s): Freedom; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Liberty; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore THE PEOPLE'S FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her darkened fishing-ports they go Last Line: A fleet of memories that can never fail. Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; English THE PIRATE, by FLORENS FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: What d'ye think I want o' stars?-risin' Last Line: I feel them—o, I feel them a-draggin' of me down! Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE POET'S JOURNAL: SQUANDERED LIVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman wades in the surges Last Line: And we to his wisdom are blind Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers THE PORTSMOUTH SAILOR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, o magical evenings Last Line: To stories of over sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Family Life; New Hampshire; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Story-telling; Relatives THE POST CAPTAIN, by CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When they heard the captain humming and beheld the Last Line: But there isn't any music save a little german band. Subject(s): Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails THE PRINCESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A princess armed a privateer to sail the chersonese Last Line: You may chance to find your captain not so brutal as you think! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE QUEST OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What were our forefathers trying Last Line: Is what our forefathers were trying to find. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Home; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RATTLE-WATCH OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the rattle's discordant swell! Last Line: If our patrolmen were paid in coal! Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Police; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime; Seamen; Sails THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old england! Thy name shall yet warrant thy fame Last Line: Neath the red cross of england—the flag of the brave. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Marines - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; War; Waterloo; English History; Seamen; Sails; Battle Of Waterloo THE RETURN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did your ship dock, jim dale Last Line: The gas-lamps paled to day. Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: He rose the morrow morn. Variant Title(s): The Rime Of The Ancyent Marinere (1834) Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds; Curses; Mysticism; Sailing & Sailors; Supernatural; Seamen; Sails THE RIVER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far up on the mountain the river begins Last Line: And bless thee in shadow and sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors THE ROVERS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Oh, wilt thou go a-sailing,' said the janitor's boy to me Last Line: And the right to moor to ring-heads in the far-off border lines. Subject(s): Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE RUBICON OF YOUTH, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We launched a boat and were soon afloat Last Line: On that wondrous cruise 'neath the arching sky. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth; Seamen; Sails THE SAILING LIST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was reading my paper, dully enough, when just as it chanced, I found Last Line: Never, never, never get to go! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE SAILOR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Gloriously upon the deep Last Line: And where her sailor slept, there slept his mother! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE SAILOR BOY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life you ask of? Why, you know Last Line: And what I will be for her sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE SAILOR BOY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rose at dawn and, fired with hope Last Line: Far worse than any death to me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Seamen; Sails THE SAILOR BOY'S DREAM, by WILLIAM DIMOND Poem Text First Line: In slumbers of midnight the sailor boy lay Last Line: O sailor-boy! Sailor-boy! Peace to thy soul! Variant Title(s): The Mariner's Dream Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE SAILOR WHO SERVED IN THE SLAVE-TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stopt, -- it surely was a groan Last Line: O god, deliver me! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Murder; Prayer; Regret; Sailing & Sailors; Shame; Slavery; Violence; Clemency; Serfs THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night came on a hurricane Last Line: "that you and I are sailors." Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE SAILOR'S DEDICATION, by MACEDONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Braced to the temple-foot by krantas' hand Last Line: Spreads a broad shoulder, sleeping unafraid. Alternate Author Name(s): Macedonius Of Thessalonica; Macedonius Consul Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue THE SAILOR'S RANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How pleasant a sailor's life passes Last Line: Chorus: then why should Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by JEAN ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And are ye sure the news is true? Last Line: When our gudeman's awa'. Alternate Author Name(s): Adam, Jean Variant Title(s): The Mariner's Wife;there's Nae Luck About The House Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sailing & Sailors; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Seamen; Sails THE SAILOR; A ROMAIC BALLAD, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that hast a daughter Last Line: I nevermore may steer! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE SALAMANDER ISLES, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Snaring lights surmount the sand-dunes of the salamander isles Last Line: Would give the proper bearings for the salamander isles. Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE SAME SUBJECT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that your sail bent to the ocean-swell Last Line: And left us only longing and regret. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Fortune; Lips; Muses; Nature; Sailing & Sailors THE SEA OF THE TALMUD, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: The moon is up, the stars shine bright Last Line: That sails this vast rabbinic sea. Subject(s): Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Judaism; Seamen; Sails THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?" Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind THE SEA-BORN VINE (A DIONYSIAC LEGEND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun leapt up the rose-flushed sky Last Line: Ai evoe be vain indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vines And Vineyards; Ocean THE SEA-BOY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and reef top-sails - ho Last Line: Of his warm feelings on the faithless sea Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE SEA-WOLF, by LOUISE STEWART Poem Text First Line: The brown boats are sailing the wide seas tonight Last Line: Frae ruth o' the sea-wolf, dear god, bield oor men. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE SEAFARER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "may I, for my own self, song's truth reckon" Last Line: "his born brothers, their buried bodies / be an unlikely treasure hoard" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE SEAFARER, by LULU VON STRAUSS UND TORNEY Poem Text First Line: The ship was bursting with a mighty crash Last Line: And he above--he also knows the deep! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE SHINING SHIP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I see the ships sail in, the sun upon their spars Last Line: Oh, she's the ship for me! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE SHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a ship of my cruelty Last Line: And take on board a god! Subject(s): Cruelty; Love; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE SHIP O' DREAMS, by FRANCES EVERTSON Poem Text First Line: If all our thoughts were silver Last Line: And true dreams worth more than gold. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails THE SHIPS OF ARCADY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' the faintest filigree Last Line: In the misty filigree. Subject(s): Arcadians; Boats; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Arcadia; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE SHIPS OF GLOU'STER, by RUTH HORNBROOK Poem Text First Line: Decadent ships of brash display Last Line: Come slanting portward, home. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails THE SHIPWRECK, by EDWARD HENRY PALMER Poem Text First Line: Upon the poop the captain stands Last Line: Preserved the sinking yawl. Alternate Author Name(s): Palmer, E. H. Subject(s): Disasters; Nonsense; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 70, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Within the appointed time he did compel Last Line: Once more his prow the frothy seas doth spurn. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 71, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His heart sings louder than the shrilling gale Last Line: His full sail swells before the straining mast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But destiny swoop'd darkling on their course Last Line: Thus only might they for such sin atone. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): France; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S SAILING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me of your bark, o birch-tree! Last Line: To the bay of taquamenaw. Variant Title(s): The Birch Canoe;building Of The Canoe Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE SONG OF THE LIGHT CANOE, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: When the dew is fresh and the grasses wet Last Line: When the flush of the sunset dies. Subject(s): Boats; Canoes & Canoeing; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Water; Seamen; Sails THE SONG OF THE MAD WOMAN'S SON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the chestnut tree Last Line: I watch for daddy's sail on the tide. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors THE SPANISH FRIAR, OR THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now, luck for us, and a kind hearty pit Last Line: By way of thanks, we'll send 'em o'er our plot. Subject(s): Catholics; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails THE STAR OF DISCONTENT, by X Poem Text First Line: O thou, sweet friend, would I might soothe thy / fear! Last Line: One ray of hope—the star of disconent. Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Optimism; Judaism THE STEERSMAN'S SONG; ABOARD THE BOSTON FRIGATE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When freshly blows the northern gale Last Line: Steady, boy! So. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THE STORM SHIP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her sails are wove of the fogs that flee Last Line: For the waves wax rich where the storm ship rides. Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE THOUSAND ISLANDS, FR. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bark leaps love-fraught from the land; the sea Last Line: Ploughing, like a huge serpent from its ambuscade. Subject(s): Great Lakes; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; St. Lawrence River; Thousand Islands THE TOAST: A SEA SONG, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH Poem Text First Line: Come drink to the toast that I give ye Last Line: Drink health to our sweethearts and wives. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Sailing & Sailors; Toasts; Water; Wine THE TROUBADOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows salt from off the sea Last Line: Life is supremest ecstacy! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE TYNESIDE WIDOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's mony a man loves land and life Last Line: For my bairn and my dear and me. Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Widows & Widowers THE UNKNOWN HAVEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Break, o waves of ocean Last Line: On some distant strand. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE UNRETURNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, drifting, drifting Last Line: Songs of the broken hearted. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Parting THE VIKING, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY Poem Text First Line: O sister, flokar's ship is in! Last Line: Until he feels her arms again. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Vikings; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore. Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE WITH THE NAUTILUS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made myself a little boat Last Line: "but I'll sail with thee no more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mothers & Sons; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE WATCH BELOW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: His childhood's longings are come true Last Line: Let the wet sea boy lie! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A boat that sails upon the sea Last Line: And watch and prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake Last Line: As the waters fill the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE WIFE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The day was fair, the wind blew steadily Last Line: Stunned by the thought of our own littleness. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Parting; Ocean THE WILD WIND, by SARA NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It's only on nights like this Last Line: Childhood memory. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Youth; Nightmares THE WONDERFUL FISHING OF PETERKIN SPRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fisherman bold was peterkin spray Last Line: And he sailed and he sailed and he sailed away. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Salmon; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WRECK OF THE 'ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of may Last Line: Likewise captain bertie gordon, who behaved so heroically. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Heroes; Heroines THE WRECK OF THE 'INDIAN CHIEF', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 8th of january 1881 Last Line: The people's joy was very great. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: And got lodgings for the night! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'WM. PATERSON,' OF LIVERPOOL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Last Line: "and in particular for fetching the crew of the ""wm. Paterson"" safe to dundee" Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE EMMELINE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This tack might fetch absecom bar Last Line: Stuck fast an' firm on the outer bar. Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STELLA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of march and in the year of 1899 Last Line: But I hope their souls are now in heaven in safe keep. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fog; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Haze THE WRECK OF THE WHALER 'OSCAR', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 1st of april, and in the year of eighteen thirteen Last Line: Unsure. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The THE YACHTS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Contend in a sea which the land partly encloses Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Yachts & Yachting; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THREE FRIENDS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Fate and hard foes are prevailing? Last Line: The cliff, and the wind, and the sea! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise THREE MINUS ONE (REFRAIN SUGGESTED BY DR. RICHARD HOFFMAN), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were three that sailed away one night Last Line: And god. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THREE SAILOR-BOYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Three fair-haired youths sailed out to sea Last Line: "james went to be fed; / but little willyum, he went on a bum" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors THREE THROWS AND ONE, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still dusk shuts out the shimmering sea, / shuts in the shadowy shore Last Line: Con sees the white face of his doom through all the world grown dim. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Luck; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wishes; Anglers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TIDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here to the sweep of the shore Last Line: Shall send to pilot thee. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Tides; Wales; Water; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore; Welshmen; Welshwomen TIR NAN OG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze blows out from the land Last Line: That burns the heart from my breast with the wish to go! Subject(s): Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Through drenching deeps a ship is sailing Last Line: Beckons and governs me! Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails TO A SEAMEW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had wings, my brother Last Line: Beachy head, september, 1886. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Wings; Nightmares TO AN AIR ON THE SAMISEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little princess of the small slipper Last Line: Is the one word, -- love? Subject(s): Air; Death; Life; Lips; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO JOSIAH ROYCE, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Seaward he set his course, nor hugg'd the / shore Last Line: And find the pole-star of your loyalty! Subject(s): Explorers; Royce, Josiah (1855-1916); Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO MY BROTHER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you recall the fancies of many years ago Last Line: How much we loved his dangers, and how we mourned his fall! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails TO THE LADY CASTLEMAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As seamen, shipwrecked on some happy shore Last Line: New life to my condemn'd and dying muse. Variant Title(s): To The Lady Castlemain - Afterwards Duchess Of Cleveland Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Villiers, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Women; Seamen; Sails TO THE MASTER OF THE 'METEOR', by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonesome on earth's loneliest deep Last Line: And the meteor rolling home. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors TO THE MEN OF 'WARRIORS' WARD', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly, amid my books, I stand and view Last Line: Will mend them when 'tis time. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth TO THE SHIP OF STATE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware, o bark, the waves that wish to Last Line: And shun the treacherous waters of the shining cyclades. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH], by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor tom bowling, / the darling of our crew Last Line: His soul has gone aloft. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Variant Title(s): Poor Tom;a Perfect Sailor Subject(s): Mourning; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bereavement; American Navy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TOM DEADLIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties Last Line: And do'nt blubber like lubbers when I turn up my keel. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails TOM TWIST, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom twist was a wonderful fellow Last Line: Where it still continues to spin. Subject(s): Activity; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Exercise; Seamen; Sails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OFF GASPE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few small huts, a narrow strip of cultivated land Last Line: Have! Subject(s): Greetings; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TRAFALGAR DAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He leads: we hear our seaman's call Last Line: Till setting of her sun. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 1. THE SAILING OF THE SWALLOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About the middle music of the spring Last Line: And their four lips became one burning mouth. Subject(s): God; Ireland; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Spring; Storms; Irish TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 9. THE SAILING OF THE SWAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate, that was born ere spirit and flesh were made Last Line: The light and sound and darkness of the sea. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Tristram And Isolde; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat at the hut of the fisher Last Line: Swiftly the darkness fell. Subject(s): Disasters; Dusk; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms; Seamen; Sails TWO MOTHERS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night two lonely women met Last Line: "would god that mine were dead!" Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean VAIN COUNSEL, by MARIAN STORM Poem Text First Line: She is very foolish if she loves a sailor Last Line: But she says she never meant to; it happened unbeknown. Subject(s): Advice; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors VOLKSWISE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor girl sat by a tower of the sea Last Line: "just a token, just a glimmer of his ship's lant ... Horn?" Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Waiting; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails WEARINESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snowy sails, silvery sails Last Line: On the strand of peace. Subject(s): Life; Peace; Sailing & Sailors WEIN, WEIB - ! (THE COMPLAINT OF THE OLD LAKEMAN), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too old em I to sail eny more Last Line: They'll git you every time! Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails WHEN MY TURN COMES, by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: When my turn comes, dear shipmates all Last Line: All the long night through. Subject(s): Death; Duty; Fate; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Destiny; Seamen; Sails WHEN THE SCHOONER IS IN, by BEULAH MAY Poem Text First Line: The foreign sea-captain Last Line: He'll never return. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors WHERE SHALL WE LAND?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All listlessly we float Last Line: "where shall we land?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean WHERE TYRANTS PERISH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail on, columbus! Sail right onward still Last Line: Where tyrants perish and all men are free. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Tyranny & Tyrants; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America WHICH ANE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which ane, an' which ane Last Line: Which sall it be? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Sailing & Sailors; Belief; Creed WHITEHAVEN HARBOUR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, can't she? Listen! There's a volley! Last Line: Ah well, let's go. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails WILD WEATHER OUTSIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild weather outside where the brave ships go Last Line: Where the sweet wife smiles in the cottage door. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Storms WIND FROM THE SEA, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary is the flesh, alas! With many books the eyes are dim Last Line: But hearken, o my heart, the singing mariners that hoist the sails! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Ocean WISHES, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Could I, with joshua of old Last Line: We shall be cruising still. Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WITH GLEAMING SAIL, by EVELYN GAIL GARDINER Poem Text First Line: Speeding before the gale Last Line: Who would be other than gayest of gay? Subject(s): Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails WITH WITHERAWAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whitheraways! - that's what I'll have to call Last Line: The crying -- 'twill be easier for them to! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze. Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind YE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND (AMERICAN TEXT) (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye parliament of england, / you lords and commons too" Last Line: That yankee ships in time of peace / to any sport may trade Subject(s): Navy - United States;sailing & Sailors;war Of 1812; American Navy YOU SPOKE OF SAILING, by VIOLET SODERQUIST MOORE Poem Text First Line: If you had talked of anything but ships Last Line: ... And dawn was not the only wakened fire? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors YOUNG MUNRO THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a sunny morning in the month of may Last Line: Because they might return and marry you some unexpected day. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors |
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