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| Searching... Subject: SEAMEN Matches Found: 198 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ELEGY FOR A SEAMAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say there is no motion undersea Subject(s): Seamen 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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-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 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 SIX SAILORS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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