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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We reached the place by night
Last Line: For the cottage by the water.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails


A 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am a sea-flower
Last Line: And let the good ship go.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lollin' on a dock-pile, pipe a-draggin' slow
Last Line: All the ships upon the sea, an' all the things I know!
Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is what I heard from a foreign sailor
Last Line: Whispering, and gesturing with lean, dark hands!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS; A DREAM IN JUNE, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware, o bark, the waves that wish to
Last Line: And shun the treacherous waters of the shining cyclades.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


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 Analysis             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