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| Searching... Subject: SHIPS & SHIPPING Matches Found: 297 A BALLAD OF JOHN SILVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull Last Line: A little south the sunset in the islands of the blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping A BALLAD OF KINSMEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pia bay wears a smooth, bright face Last Line: And the other on to her grave. Subject(s): England; Sea; Ships & Shipping; English; Ocean 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 MARINE ETCHING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A yacht from its harbor ropes pulled free Last Line: A gray fog, drifted, and hid her from view. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping A NOCTURNE AT GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out, beyond my window, in the gloom Last Line: Out yonder in the gloom. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Rivers; Ships & Shipping; Urban Life; Bedtime A PASSER-BY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, o splendid ship, thy white sails crowding Last Line: In the offing scatterest foam, thy white sails crowding. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; 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 REQUIEM, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep softly in your ocean bed Last Line: Who teach us how to die. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) A SALUTATION OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE SOVEREIGN, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Move on, thou floating trophy built to fame Last Line: With thine own triumphs be crown'd sovereign. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping A SHIP IN A PIER, by ALEXANDER JAVITZ Poem Text First Line: A ship is a slight thing Last Line: That a city ever stood! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping A VOYAGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn till night one only change have we Last Line: We see a ship, and then we ship a sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean A WINTER SHIP, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At this wharf there are no grand landings to speak of Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping ACHONRY (THE LEGEND OF ERIN'S HOPE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mood of the spring time subtly crept Last Line: "^1^ ""malo mori quam foedari""—""death sooner than dishonour!"" see notes." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Bells; Clergy; Legends, Irish; Monasteries; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys; Journeys; Trips ADDRESS TO A STEAM-VESSEL, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freighted with passengers of every sort Last Line: Half sad, half proud, half angry, and half pleased. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping AFFRONTENBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time fleeteth, yet that castle old Last Line: With bonds accurst, and pining sadly. Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Ships & Shipping; Tears; Time APRIL AFTERNOON, POINT LOMA (1769), by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There feasted on these heights wild earth-hued folk Last Line: Swept down la playa where awed indians knelt. Subject(s): Afternoon; April; Ships & Shipping AT SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, we go down to sea in ships-- Last Line: And waft us home again! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean BALLAD OF THE CALLIOPE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the far samoan shore Last Line: A cheer that english-speaking folk should echo round the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Pacific Ocean; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping BEYOND THE HORIZON, by ROBERT FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When men go down to the sea in ships Last Line: "to beckon and cry, ""all hail!" Subject(s): Death; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The BISHOP GLOBE-TROTTER, by LEWIS SASSE II Poem Text First Line: Being raised to the purple gave me an itching foot Last Line: Buddhists, confucianists, christians, and an atheist. Subject(s): Cairo; Prayer; Religion; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips BLUE CANTON-WARE, by SARAH A. ATHEARN Poem Text First Line: The shelves above my desk Last Line: Till canton falls! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade BUCCANEERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bold bad pirates on a bold bad craft Last Line: Is just three kids on a makeshift raft. Subject(s): Pirates; Ships & Shipping; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers CARGOES, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quinquireme of nineveh from distant ophir Last Line: Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Shipbuilding; Ships & Shipping; Ocean CHOOSING A MAST, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This mast, new-shaven, through whom I rive the ropes Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Masts; Pine Trees; Ships & Shipping; Trees COASTWISE, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ships that trade foreign, to london they Last Line: To ships trading foreign that pass on their way. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade COLLISION OF THE AYR AND COMET STEAMBOATS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vessel of britain! Proudly wert thou going Last Line: Why sorrowest thou? Thy child but slumbereth.' Subject(s): Ships & Shipping COMPENSATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea Last Line: Lay the foundations for one island more. Subject(s): God; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sleep; Ocean CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: And, yeah, brothers / while white/america sings about the unsink- Subject(s): African Americans; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Negroes; American Blacks DE GOOD SHIP, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'se bin watchin' long fer de good ship Last Line: My good ship had done got in. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Ships & Shipping DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 2, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore Last Line: Their beames abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Nature; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Translating & Interpreting DESTROYERS, by HENRY HEAD Poem Text First Line: On this primeval strip of western land Last Line: Are bought with death. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War DOCKS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strolling along Last Line: Into salt and mist and foam and sun. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping DOWN AT THE DOCKS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at the docks-when the smoke clouds lie Last Line: With a secret tide to a secret sea. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was twenty-five years ago Last Line: That you are just as foolish as can be Subject(s): Disasters;jesus Christ;pride;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); Self-esteem;self-respect DREAM OF LIFE, by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the music of the wave Last Line: Thus woke his wassail song -- Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath Subject(s): Waves; Ships & Shipping; Dreams; Nightmares DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed. Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ENOUGH SAID, by CLARK MCADAMS Poem Text First Line: Votes for women Last Line: Tells the tale. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Women's Rights; Feminism EURIPIDES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most. Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; Ocean EVANESCENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing ships! Passing ships! Last Line: Must daily mourn some vanished hand. Subject(s): Life; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping FAIR PLAY, by M. L. CLAWSON Poem Text First Line: A monument for millionaires Last Line: To the men who died with their jobs. Subject(s): Disasters; Labor & Laborers; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Work; Workers FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 1. THE PILOT IN THE MIST, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steaming the northern rapids - (an old st. Lawrence reminiscence) Last Line: Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping FANTASIA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am a sea-flower Last Line: And let the good ship go. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean FATE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As two proud ships upon the pathless main Last Line: So we two parted. Shall we meet again? Subject(s): Boats;dreams;farewell;ships & Shipping; Nightmares;parting FULL-SAILED, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, full-sailed like thought, a great ship Last Line: When a great ship rides battling down to death. Subject(s): Death; Ships & Shipping; Wellesley College; Dead, The GO!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship was waiting in the bay Last Line: As we two go. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Farewell; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips GOD MOVES ON THE WATER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "well, he could not pay his fare" Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship) GOOD SHIPS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fleet ships encountering on the high seas Last Line: And unto miserly merchant hulks converted Subject(s): Ships & Shipping GREAT IS DIANA OF THE MANNAHATTOES!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Northward! Northward! Goddess of the tower Last Line: The smoke of sacrifice! Subject(s): Hudson River; Native Americans; New York City; Ships & Shipping; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GREAT SHIPS, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a poem about the great ships that wandered Subject(s): Ships & Shipping GUNWALES OF ICE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I come to watch you pass by Subject(s): Absence; Death; Presence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The 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 HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 1. THE SEA'S SALUTATION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The immense life of the sea, out of remote horizons Last Line: Passing, under the clatter of wheels and of crowding feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Tides; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 3. THE LOOM OF LONDON, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange far lives, manifold, each from the other Last Line: "and again whispers to the walls of the unheeding city ""life." Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 4. THE QUEEN'S SONS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide of the sea-listen, its breathing voice is triumphant Last Line: "mine are thy sons!' he calls to thee, 'queen, rejoice in my children.'" Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 5. THE DARK VISION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But the sea is immortal, he knows nothing, he cannot / divine Last Line: First he found thee and crowned thee in waste dominions a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, by WALTER PARKE Poem Text First Line: He stood on his head by the wild seashore Last Line: Turned somersaults home to tea. Subject(s): Mothers-in-law; Peace; Ships & Shipping HORIZONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man whose ships never come home Last Line: And night -- and stormy circumstance. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Destiny; Ocean HOSPITAL BARGE AT CERISY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Budging the sluggard ripples of the somme Last Line: Kings passed in the dark barge, which merlin dreamed. Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers' Writings HUGGING THE SHORE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you think you will hug the shore, captain, to-day? Last Line: "but I'll hug the cape of may." Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Ships & Shipping HYMN OF PROGRESS, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Dauntless as the pioneers / that pressed Last Line: Moving, ever, with the dawn. Subject(s): Pioneers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore HYMN TO THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Great sea, too much have fools impugned our empire's might, boast Last Line: Sky, deposits evermore the infinite salt of stars. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean I HAVE NOT KNOWN, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: I have not known this thing you call the sea Last Line: I should feel wonder ebb away from me. Subject(s): Ghosts; Pirates; Sea Gulls; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Supernatural; Water; Piracy; Buccaneers IMPRESSIONS, by JEAN MUTTER Poem Text First Line: Cold gray mist, o'er a gray sea swelling Last Line: A ship in the mist, at break of day. Subject(s): Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore IN HARBOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surely there, among the great docks, is peace, my mind Last Line: Yes, it is certainly of the high sea they are talking. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sea IN MEMORIAM: THE TITANIC DISASTER, SELECTION, by H. REA WOODMAN Poem Text First Line: Impregnable foe from the arctic Last Line: By that singing before the gate. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) IN PRIZE, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ship was built in glasgow, and oh, she Last Line: (but it's true, my johnnie bowline, true!) Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Death; Dead, The IN THE SHALLOWS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the shallows where the sand Last Line: My ships, that never came to port. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Ships & Shipping INLAND, by JOAN DARETH PROSPER Poem Text First Line: He used to talk of ships, and I remember Last Line: (god! How I'm still missing him!) Subject(s): Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping ISHMAEL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fifteen years I have known your face Last Line: Turns with us lashed to its flank and sounds. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Ships & Shipping ISLAND OF SUMMER: 14. MASTS AT DAWN, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past second cock-crow yacht masts in the harbor go slowly white Subject(s): Ships & Shipping JOHN COMPANY'S SHIPS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John company's ships, they sailed the seas Last Line: John company's ships of the days of old. Subject(s): Imperialism; Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping; Trade JOHN MAYNARD, by HORATIO ALGER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on lake erie's broad expanse Last Line: A nobler funeral pyre! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Heroism; Death; Fires; Heroes; Heroines; Dead, The JUAN CABRILLO, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: First from old spain you came, brave portuguese Last Line: While skies burn blue, while lifts high loma's crest. Subject(s): Portugal; Ships & Shipping JUST WHISPER THE MESSAGE, by THOMAS H. MULVEY Poem Text First Line: The lights were softly beaming o'er the brilliant ballroom floor Last Line: The sweet-heart maid in calmness blankly prayed. Subject(s): Disasters; Prayer; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) KILMENY (A SONG OF THE TRAWLERS), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, dark lay the drifters against the red west Last Line: And nobody knew where kilmeny had been. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War LANDFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Landfall at dawn, and madeira rose from the sea Last Line: And sinking glad to his knees. Subject(s): Hearts; Landfall; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean LEAVING THE HARBOR, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean LIEUTENANT SHELLBACK, R.N.R., by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He has learnt the ways of the ships at sea Last Line: But lieutenant shellback will carry it through. Subject(s): Imperialism; Knowledge; Ships & Shipping LINDBERGH TO HIS SHIP, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: And why not 'we?' Last Line: So steadfast and so fair! Subject(s): Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Ships & Shipping LIVE IT THROUGH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a huge liner stood in the desert, its crew leaning Last Line: Live it through Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares LOVE IN OLD MEXICO, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of ships sailing across the sun Last Line: And thro' them all there gleamed the face of you. Subject(s): Dreams; Mexico; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares MAXIMUS, LETTER 2, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: . . . . . Tell you? Ha! Who Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Work; Workers; Ocean 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 MEMORIES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ships...They go,' said murphy, 'like a spent pay-roll Last Line: "an' the times a man remembers . . . They're the best times of all!" Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Ships & Shipping; Time MERCHANTMEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago I stood by the sea Last Line: The fated ship that I loved so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Merchants; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping MISSING, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was spoken off saint vincent, outward bound Last Line: Things lovely and beloved, that are no more. . . . Subject(s): Ships & Shipping MY MARY ANN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fare you well my own mary ann Last Line: In angel form to my mary ann Subject(s): Farewell;love;sea;ships & Shipping; Parting;ocean MY SHIP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to the wharves, as the sun goes down Last Line: And watch to see if my ship comes in. Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MY SHIP, by J. F. HOUCK Poem Text First Line: I laid its keel with utmost care Last Line: Where waves are stilled, where all is peace. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping MYSTERIES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to the earth in its headlong flight Last Line: What does it mean to live and die? Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean NEW YORK, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Into the violet vastness of shoreless and moaning / twilight Last Line: The infinite hulk of the ship of my city pushes her course unreturning. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips NITRATES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All alone I went a-walking by the london docks one day Last Line: But it called the days departed and my boyhood back to me! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Trade O GLORIOUS SEA THAT IN EACH CLIMBING WAVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou sayest to men: go back & come not hither Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ships & Shipping O SEA!, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS Poem Text First Line: O sea! O sea! O sea! Last Line: With earth's humanity! Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) ODES I, 14. THE SHIP OF STATE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh ship! New billows sweep thee out Last Line: That gird those glittering cyclades. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean ODES I, 14. TO A SHIP, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet on fresh billows seaward wilt thou ride Last Line: That stud the far-off main. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Ships & Shipping OLD SHIPS, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Beside dim wharves, the battered ships are dreaming Last Line: They fall to dreaming of the days long past! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping OLD SHIPS, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a memory stays upon old ships Last Line: Blowing in mists, their spectral sails like light. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping OLD STORMY, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stormy's dead,' I heard them say, 'he's Last Line: And she took and drowned herself at last, the night old stormy died. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The ON BOARD A JERSEY STEAMER; A MIDSUMMER SUNRISE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I watched, and, summoned, by the ray Last Line: And woke, and sought once more the sea and sky. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping ON DECK, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight in the mid-atlantic. On deck. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping ON MEETING A SAILING VESSEL IN MID-OCEAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She moves on grandly 'twixt the sea and sky Last Line: Then heartsick to our solitude we turn. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Ships & Shipping ON THE NEW AMERICAN FRIGATE ALLIANCE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As neptune traced the azure main Last Line: "these sail -- to vanquish tyranny."" --" Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States; Ships & Shipping; American Navy 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 ONE WORD THE SHIPS SPEAK, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Following night's trackless pathway Subject(s): Ships & Shipping 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 OUR SEA HEROES, by E. J. THIBAUT Poem Text First Line: Carried away down in the atlantic Last Line: For the woman and also, for the child. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) OUTWARDS AND HOMEWARDS, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still are the ships that in haven ride Last Line: Look, and learn from the ships of the deep! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping PICTURES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some likes pictures o' women,' said bill, 'an' some likes 'orses best' Last Line: "you paint me a ship as is like a ship . . . An' that'll do for me!'" Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 11. PURIFICATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remain thou in thy ocean-depths Last Line: And my rescued spirit rejoices. Subject(s): Hearts; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping POEM: 3, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: God pat schope both se and sand Last Line: And blis it with his haly hand. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; God; Ships & Shipping; War; English RAGTIME!, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ragtime! Ragtime! Keep it going still! Last Line: Gently the music fades away—and so, god rest us all! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Music & Musicians; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Dead, The RECOGNITION, by SYLVIA GARDINER LUFBURROW Poem Text First Line: What ship is this that rakes her broken spars Last Line: The name I gave you blurs along your bow! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean RESURRECTION, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at devine's hotel - where night and day Last Line: Find in men's dreams her resurrection. Subject(s): Harbors; Ships & Shipping RETROSPECT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't it rum?' said dan one day Last Line: "what he likes best -- till it goes?" Subject(s): Harbors; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon a mountain Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SAD VENTURES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I stood and watched my ships go out Last Line: A crown linked to a cross Subject(s): "cross, The;crosses;crowns;faith;farewell;ships & Shipping;" Belief;creed;parting SALUTE TO DONALD DAVIE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine david, how a single Last Line: Though only for a visit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Waves; English; Hunters; Ocean 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 SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 5. STEAMERS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like black plunging dolphins with red bellies Last Line: Up purple and chrome horizons. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SAND DUNES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea waves are green and wet Last Line: For the one more cast off shell. Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore SEA SONG, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat to the waves go free Last Line: Fear not we the whirl of the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean SHIPBORED, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That line is the horizon line Last Line: The blue below and I are, too Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SHIPS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER Poem Text First Line: The harbor throngs with ships tonight Last Line: With all the world in tow! Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by MARGERY ELDREDGE HOWELL Poem Text First Line: Shining pinions folded down Last Line: Something of the sea. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ALICE MARSTON SEAMAN Poem Text First Line: They know the vagabondage of the seas Last Line: From those old ships at anchor in the bay. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I love to watch them rocking to and fro Last Line: To find the rushing high-ways of the sea. Subject(s): Anchors; Harbors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SHIPS AT SEA, by ROBERT BARRY COFFIN Poem Text First Line: I have ships that went to sea Last Line: Evermore, evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, Barry Subject(s): Disappointment; Ships & Shipping SHIPS AT SUNSET, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: The old ships come Last Line: With similar speech? Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SHIPS IN HAMPTON ROADS, by GARNETT LAIDLAW ESKEW Poem Text First Line: Beyond the walls of gray monroe Last Line: But I must stay and dream at home. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SHIPS IN HARBOR, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not known a quieter thing than ships Last Line: That mark the patient watches on the stars. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SHIPS O' DREAMS, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: The gray ships, the stately ships Last Line: A-steaming down the bay. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean SHIPS OF FORTUNE, by ISADORE DOUGLAS COYLE Poem Text First Line: The port of hearts' desire lies far Last Line: For ships that never come home. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Wellesley College SHIPS ON THE SEA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far down the dim horizon of my soul Last Line: And follow still their vanishing trestle-trees. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 74, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has such a rainy sound Last Line: In the windy sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Wind;the Sound Of The Wind Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Wind SMALL CRAFT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When drake sailed out from devon to Last Line: All honour be to small craft, for oh! They've earned it well! Subject(s): Fights; Perseverance; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War SOFT HAIL, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afterward, to tell how it was possible to Subject(s): Motion; Storms; Ships & Shipping SOLOMON'S SHIPS, by JOHN E. REINECKE Poem Text First Line: Ships, sailing so calmly Last Line: And ebon wood to fashion three hundred cradles. Subject(s): Navy - Israeli; Ships & Shipping; Solomon (10th Century B.c.) SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day a rude brief recitative Last Line: All seas, all ships. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean SONG OF COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Columbus was a brave man Last Line: Or sail-boats three! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far out, blue ocean! O'er thy wave Last Line: Shall tread earth by my side. Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean SONG OF THE SHIPS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great ships go a-shouldering Last Line: And sail no more, no more! Subject(s): Decay; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence; Beach; Coast; Shore SONGE OF THE SCHIPPE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When surly windes and grewsome cloudes Last Line: The sun may rise upon the morn and guide us to a home! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Storms SONGS IN ABSENCE: 14, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ship, ship, ship Last Line: Come quickly with it to me. Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Last Line: Far, far behind, is all that they can say. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 94, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the ships come wing by wing Last Line: The waste of the heart which no man knows. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Love SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 95, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and up, they all come up Last Line: In the golden weather. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Homecoming SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 99, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fishers are sailing, the fleet is away Last Line: As a roseleaf of cloud on the rim of the sea. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SONGS TO A.H.R.: 11. TRANSFUSION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shoal-light flashes east Last Line: And all the stars above. Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Universe; Bedtime; Ocean SONNET ON TURNER'S PICTURE, OF THE TEMERAIRE MAN-OF-WAR, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how that small concentrate fiery force Last Line: Home of great thoughts, memorial temeraire! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Ships & Shipping; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851) SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean STREAMLINERA: OCEAN-LINER, by PAULINE JONES BURNS Poem Text First Line: With arrow-speed an agile greyhound runs Last Line: With vibrant power, conquers time and space. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SUNSET-MOOD, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Outward-bound for singapore Last Line: Steaming to cathay! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping SUPERIORITIES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Malachy stamped the diving decks Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE 'CLERMONT', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow. Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean THE ALLIGATOR, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That steed has lost his rider! I have seen Last Line: That lost his rider, and laid down, and died. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE BALLAD OF THE 'BOLIVAR', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven men from all the world back to docks again Last Line: "cause we took the ""bolivar"" safe across the bay?" Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE BEAUTY OF THE SHIP, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, staunchly entering port Last Line: I only saw, at last, the beauty of the ship. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE BETTER SHIP - PANAMA, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: Juan has a new ship Last Line: "was better for me! . . ." Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE BIG BLACK TRAWLER, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The very best ship that ever I knew Last Line: Oh, sing, my bullies, let the bullgine run. Subject(s): March (month); Sea; Ships & Shipping; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE BURNING OF THE SHIP 'KENT', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And when their feet touched english soil their hearts felt gay. Subject(s): Accidents; Fire; Ships & Shipping THE COMRADE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger by the tavern board Last Line: Winnowed by the wave and sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Ships & Shipping; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In a solitude of the sea Last Line: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. Subject(s): Disasters; Icebergs; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Ocean THE CONVICT SHIP, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morn on the waters! - and, purple and bright Last Line: Where the dreams of our childhood are vanish'd and o'er! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE CRUISE OF THE 'ROVER', A.D. 1575, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sailed away one morning when sowing-time was over Last Line: Then kissed each other silently, and hand in hand they died. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; English Navy; Naval Warfare THE DEAD SHIP; A KELTIC LEGEND, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship came sailing, sailing Last Line: Oh, my heart break! Subject(s): Legends, Celtic; Ships & Shipping THE DERELICT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was the staunchest of our fleet Last Line: Falling afraid lest any keel come near! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE DISMANTLED SHIP, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay, Last Line: Lies rusting, mouldering. Subject(s): Decay; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence THE DISTANT SHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-bird's wing o'er ocean's breast Last Line: For human hearts are there. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Women THE FARTHER SHORE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: We gazed far out upon the lonely main Last Line: And guide my vessel o'er this sea to her! Subject(s): Absence; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FIGURE-HEAD, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The charles-and-emma seaward sped Last Line: O, the breakers dance, but the winds they moan! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping 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 GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE GOLDEN AGE OF FIGUREHEAD, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First we sloughed off the sailors—when a storm hit we’d lean into it and watch as they slipped Last Line: Was invented, like the giant tenor who unbuckles his belt and lets out his one truest note Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping THE GOOD INTENT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They built her in the olden days Last Line: "as honest as their grandads did!" Subject(s): Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping THE GREAT TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock Last Line: Sixteen hundred had to drown Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship) THE GREEK GALLEY, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of the sea, the sway of the song, the swing of the oar! Last Line: We are home at last! Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE HARVEST OF THE SEA, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jealous sea moaned in the april night Last Line: But through the world to-day, and up to heaven! Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE HOME PORT, by EDITH PRATT DICKENS Poem Text First Line: We have gone down to the sea Last Line: The brine-burned winds of home. Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE HOME-BOUND SHIP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out on the stormy ocean Last Line: Bringing my loved ones home. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean THE INDIAMAN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aye! Exactly - that's the name Last Line: "yes of course."" -- ""aw dear!"" I said." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Isle Of Man; Ships & Shipping 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 KING'S SHIPS, by CAROLINE S. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: God hath so many ships upon the sea! Last Line: This deep is but the hollow of his hand. Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; God; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; War THE LAUNCH OF THE LIVADIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold, and fair marbles, and again more gold Last Line: 09/30/80 Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LIGHT, by MARJORIE A. SCHRIER Poem Text First Line: Firm on a rock the lighthouse stands Last Line: Wherever you choose to roam. Subject(s): Lighthouses; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE LORD OF THE DUNDERBERG, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goblin and kobold and elf and gnome Last Line: Strike flag to the lord of the dunderberg! Subject(s): Fantasy; Gnomes; New York City - Dutch Period; Ships & Shipping THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light Last Line: To the placid supreme in the sweep of his reign. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Ships & Shipping THE MARY; A SEA-SIDE SKETCH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lov'st thou not, alice, with the early tide Last Line: "while loungers idly ask, ""where is the mary?" Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE MAST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds that once my playmates were Last Line: When o'er my wandering way they come. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Masts; Ships & Shipping THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two barks met on the deep mid-sea Last Line: Such ties are formed below. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Friendship; Ships & Shipping THE MEMOIRS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cutter risen from the mollusks, it is a god Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE MESSAGE OF FULTON, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: River of plenty and the peace of god Last Line: Nor less with time god's plenty and his peace. Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); Ships & Shipping THE MIDNIGHT WATCH AT SEA, by HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dang! Dang! Two bells by the ship's clock Last Line: On the midnight watch. Alternate Author Name(s): James, Henry, Jr. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE MINE-SWEEPERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn off the foreland -- the young flood making Last Line: "sent back unity, claribel, assyrian, stormcock, and golden gain." Subject(s): Mine-sweepers; Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War THE NEW ENDYMION, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the ghostly poplar-trees Last Line: Bend o'er me on my fatal day! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE NIGHT PATROL; SEPTEMBER, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind me on the darkened pier Last Line: And silent duty on the sea. Subject(s): England; Night; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers; War; World War I; English; Bedtime; First World War THE NORTH SHIP, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three ships go sailing by Last Line: And it was rigged for a long journey Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER Poem Text First Line: I saw the old man pause, then turn his head Last Line: "for motors and joy-riders! All it's worth." Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE OLD SEA CAPTAIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: In the secluded, sleepy town Last Line: Are his companions now. Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE OLD SHIPS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep Last Line: And the whole deck put on its leaves again. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus THE OLD WARSHIP ABLAZE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Founder, old battleship; thy fight is done Last Line: Dips out ironical that ship new moon. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English Navy THE OLIVE BRANCH, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dove flew with an olive branch Last Line: And every ship an olive branch. Subject(s): Science; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Scientists; Ocean THE OMINOUS TIMES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Ominous are the times. They seem to be Last Line: And pious lips to pray unto their lord. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Lightning Rods; Ocean THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIP, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As borne along with favouring gale Last Line: To hide its misery! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE PACKET RAT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave this western ocean, to the Last Line: It's the bloomin' western ocean what 'll get me when I'm dead! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PARTING SHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, in thy glory, o'er the ancient sea Last Line: Fare thee well, bark! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Ships & Shipping; Parting THE PEOPLE'S FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her darkened fishing-ports they go Last Line: A fleet of memories that can never fail. Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; English THE PHANTOM SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In mather's magnalia christi, / of the old colonial time Last Line: He had sent this ship of air. Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728); New Haven, Connecticut; Ships & Shipping THE PIRATEER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The lightning flashed and thunder crashed Last Line: Lay still in a secret sea. Subject(s): Pirates; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Piracy; Buccaneers; Beach; Coast; Shore THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 229, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of you are priceless gems Last Line: Don't just sit there stiff Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ships & Shipping THE PRISON SHIPS, 1776, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: O martyrdom of hope!-to lie Last Line: Holds back to god,—earth's brightest answering star. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Monuments; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Prison Ships; Ships & Shipping THE RETURN, by ELIZABETH S. NOBLE Poem Text First Line: He sailed upon the misted sea Last Line: Her arms outstretched across the sands. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE RHYME OF THE CAPTIVE MAID, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade Last Line: And a long, long dream of the days gone by! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE SCHOONER, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just mark that schooner westward far at sea Last Line: And that strong hand within unbars the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE SEA GULL, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I seek not the grove where the wood-robins whistle Last Line: And a white wing flap o'er his early grave. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Porter, David (1780-1843); Ships & Shipping; American Navy THE SHADOWY CITY LOOMS; NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH RIVER, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In deepening shades the haunting vision swims Last Line: Seems a lost star. Subject(s): New York City; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips THE SHAPES WERE OF MOTION, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The shapes were of motion in their dreaming Last Line: Are the shapes forever of motion in this dreaming? Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE SHINING SHIP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I see the ships sail in, the sun upon their spars Last Line: Oh, she's the ship for me! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE SHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a ship of my cruelty Last Line: And take on board a god! Subject(s): Cruelty; Love; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE SHIP, by LAURENCE B. RIDGELY Poem Text First Line: Strong beams, wrought out from mighty trees laid low Last Line: Speed, speed away with joy, across the plain. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SHIP, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was no song nor shout of joy Last Line: Or silks or gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE SHIP, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And lo! Upon the murmuring waves Last Line: Across the unfathom'd trackless ocean. Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE SHIP O' DREAMS, by FRANCES EVERTSON Poem Text First Line: If all our thoughts were silver Last Line: And true dreams worth more than gold. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails THE SHIP OF DEATH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is autumn and the falling fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SHIP OF LIBERTY; LINES ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE 'NEWBURGH', by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ship of liberty! Last Line: Our hearts go forth with thee. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War THE SHIP POUNDING, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning I made my way Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sickness; Illness THE SHIP-BUILDERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is ruddy in the east Last Line: Her white sails from the sea! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping 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 SHIPS OF GRIEF, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On seas where every pilot fails Last Line: There is a sun will strike the sea. Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE SHIPS THAT NEVER FOUGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The great gray ships come slowly in, and range Last Line: And yet no stain or shame is theirs—the ships that never fought! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; War; World War I; First World War THE SLAVE SHIP, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The supercargo mynher van koek Last Line: "there's an end to my occupation." Subject(s): Blacks; Physicians; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Doctors; Serfs THE SMACK RACE, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are they not beautiful? How light they float? Last Line: Of quiet, happy nights. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE STAR OF THE SEA, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many a mighty ship Last Line: Star of the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean THE STATELY BLACKWALLER, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hauled through the dock-gates when morning was young Last Line: The stately blackwaller of days that are done. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 6. ON THE CORK PACKET, 1837, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: The breeze grew strong, the waves show'd crests of foam Last Line: Can no ennobling thoughts to them impart! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE STONE FLEET; AN OLD SAILOR'S LAMENT (DECEMBER, 1861), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a feeling for those ships Last Line: Was your old stone fleet. Subject(s): American Civil War; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History THE STORM, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How with ill nature does this world abound! Last Line: I'll thence ride post to kiss your lordship's hand. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Storms THE STORM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest rages wild and high Last Line: Gloria tibi domine. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean THE STORM, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, rude boreas, blustering railer! Last Line: She rights! She rights, boys! We're off shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean 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 TANKERS, by GORDON MALHERBE HILLMAN Poem Text First Line: To bombay and capetown, and ports of a hundred Last Line: Where they lie like long red patches by a jungle river's mouth. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 9. THE DEAD SHIP OF HARPSWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What flecks the outer gray beyond Last Line: Who steers the ship of death! Subject(s): Harpswell, Maine; Ships & Shipping THE THREE LITTLE SHIPS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There, are great big ships and they / ride all day Last Line: The pinta, the niña, the santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE THREE-DECKER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail Last Line: She's taking tired people to the islands of the blest! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The titanic left southampton Last Line: All the women he tried to save Subject(s): "astor, John Jacob (1864-1912);disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock Last Line: It was sad when that great ship went down Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship) THE TITANIC, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As she sped from dawn to gloaming, a palace upon the sea Last Line: Immortal life, who greeted home-comers from the sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Tell me, do ye never hear it when the wind is / from the sea? Last Line: Was that loyal note of courage which goes singing through the world! Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fights; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Valor; Bravery THE TITANIC, by GEORGE A. HILL Poem Text First Line: Steaming so swift and boldly Last Line: How quickly its is brought to naught. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was midnight on the sea Last Line: Fare thee, titanic, fare thee well. Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): Disasters; Johnson, Jack (1878-1946); Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you must go -- ask not to stay Last Line: Of life's great secret on each other's heart! Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Jews; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship); Judaism THE TITANIC, by BRAND WHITLOCK Poem Text First Line: And this, the dark ironic spirit mocked Last Line: And in the hour of failure, how to die. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC DISASTER POEM, SELECTION, by J. H. MCKENZIE Poem Text First Line: And strauss, who did the children feed Last Line: As went down in the blue. Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC PYGMY, by ROBERT HUGH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Lord, we have boasted we are wise Last Line: And trav'lers to the unseen shore. Subject(s): Disasters; Humility; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Vanity; Worship THE TOW-ROPE GIRLS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, a ship in the tropics a-foaming along Last Line: "haul away -- all the way -- haul away -- haul!"")" Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: NAGELFARI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blinded he sped, the stars around him thrown Last Line: The embattled host of heaven expectant held. Subject(s): Bridges; Horseback Riding; Mythology - Norse; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE UNRETURNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, drifting, drifting Last Line: Songs of the broken hearted. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Parting THE VIKING, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY Poem Text First Line: O sister, flokar's ship is in! Last Line: Until he feels her arms again. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Vikings; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War 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 VOICE OF THE SEA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Break, break, break Last Line: Thou wilt in the coming day! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Anglers; Ocean THE VOYAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some morning I shall rise from sleep Last Line: By the dim quayside and embark. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Last Voyage Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE OF VERRAZANO (1524), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Verrazano, verrazano, child of arno's golden vale Last Line: O'er the chartless seas of silence from a fellow voyager, hail! Variant Title(s): Verrazano In New York Harbour Subject(s): Explorers; New York Harbor; Ships & Shipping; Verranzano, Giovanni Da (1485-1528); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC, OR THE WATERY GRAVE, SELECTION, by SOLOMON SMULEWITZ Poem Text First Line: There stand, in woe Last Line: The name of ida straus! Alternate Author Name(s): Small, Solomon Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship) THE YARN OF THE BLUE STAR LINE, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a lad and went to sea Last Line: As them tall ships o' the blue star line. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luck to the craft that bears this name of mine Last Line: Break the long calms, and charm away the storms. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Through drenching deeps a ship is sailing Last Line: Beckons and governs me! Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails TO A SHIP'S MAST, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You did not dream of ships, o mountain pine Last Line: So much we mortals know of destiny! Subject(s): Fate; Ships & Shipping; Destiny 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 HER IN ABSENCE; A SHIP, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toss'd in a troubled sea of griefs, I float Last Line: Where it for ever shall at anchor lie. Subject(s): Absence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation TO KALAKAUA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver ship, my king - that was her name Last Line: Honolulu, feb. 3, 1889. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TO THE BOSTON FRIGATE, ON LEAVING HALIFAX FOR ENGLAND, 1804, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With triumph this morning o boston! I hail Last Line: To the boat -- I am with thee -- columbia, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping TO THE FIRST SLAVE SHIP, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First of that train which cursed the wave Last Line: A friend, -- a father in their god. Subject(s): God; Pain; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Tears; Suffering; Misery; Serfs TO THE POLAR EXPEDITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God speed you on your high emprise Last Line: And plant the flag of england there. Subject(s): Ambition; England; Flags - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English 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 TORREY PINES, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these strangers gathered on our shore? Last Line: From tyre or sidon, yearning for the seas. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Ships & Shipping; Trees 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 TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-ocean, night Last Line: Light sways slowly. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Steamboats; Tourists; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TRIAD, by EDWIN C. GRABER Poem Text First Line: We are like ships Last Line: Bend over us. Subject(s): Happiness; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Joy; Delight TWO SWIMMERS WRESTLED ON THE SPAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And hands – beseeching – thrown! Subject(s): Swimming; Ships & Shipping ULTRAISTA ONEIRIC, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dream vortices broadcast / humorous din Last Line: Bounces into unsteady calm Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean VALE; FOR PAULINE JOHNSON, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone voyager! Thy ship of dreams Last Line: The end of distance brings you rest! Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips VIOLIN SONGS: OUR SHIP, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a great ship coming home Last Line: Is steering home this way! Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean VOYAGE OF THE JETTIE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shallow stream, from fountains Last Line: May guide us one and all. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping WAITING FOR THE SHIP, by JAMES HEDDERWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now he stroll'd along the pebbles, now he saunter'd on the pier Last Line: And the morrow came -- but never came he more. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping WE'RE BUILDING THE SHIP AS WE SAIL IT, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first fear / being drowning Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Life WHEN DADDY'S SHIP COMES IN, by RUTH ALBERTA MACARTHUR Poem Text First Line: O daddy, can I have a bike' Last Line: "if we have faith in dad." Subject(s): Ships & Shipping WILD WEATHER OUTSIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild weather outside where the brave ships go Last Line: Where the sweet wife smiles in the cottage door. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Storms WINDJAMMERS, by LAURA M. GRADICK Poem Text First Line: I never owned a schooner, a barque or brigantine Last Line: By the power of my loving the ships belong to me. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping WIRELESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now to those who search the deep Last Line: And a little child may lead them. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean; First World War WRECK OF THE TITANIC, by REGINALD M. TEWKSBURY Poem Text First Line: Only an iceberg Last Line: Under moonlit sky! Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) WRECKAGE, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: Here by a churning surf, while breakers rave Last Line: No bridge spans taut across your storm of life. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks |
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