The Eternal Sea: An Anthology of Sea PoetryWilliam Martin Williamson Coward-McCann Incorporated, 1946 - 565 pages |
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... ROUND CAPE HORN " Ask any question in this town , Of any one , by night or morn , The answer will be always found " Round Cape Horn . ” I ask the ladies where I call , " Your husbands , are they here or gone ? " And get this answer from ...
... ROUND CAPE HORN " Ask any question in this town , Of any one , by night or morn , The answer will be always found " Round Cape Horn . ” I ask the ladies where I call , " Your husbands , are they here or gone ? " And get this answer from ...
Page 266
... Round Cape Horn . ' " I asked a sailor bound away , Where I should write when he was gone . He said without the least delay , - " Round Cape Horn . " I asked a merchant for a fee . He turned and answered me with scorn , — " My property ...
... Round Cape Horn . ' " I asked a sailor bound away , Where I should write when he was gone . He said without the least delay , - " Round Cape Horn . " I asked a merchant for a fee . He turned and answered me with scorn , — " My property ...
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... Round Cape Horn . ” I said , " I'll let your fathers know , " To boys in mischief on the lawn ; They all replied ; " Then you must go ' Round Cape Horn . " " I asked a loafer idling round , If he would work ; when , with a yawn , He ...
... Round Cape Horn . ” I said , " I'll let your fathers know , " To boys in mischief on the lawn ; They all replied ; " Then you must go ' Round Cape Horn . " " I asked a loafer idling round , If he would work ; when , with a yawn , He ...
Contents
THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP | 25 |
OUTWARD BOUND | 55 |
STORMY SEAS | 83 |
Copyright | |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne beauty beneath billows blow blue brave breast breath bright calm Cape Horn captain captain's gig clouds dark dawn deck deep dream drift Epes Sargent eternal eyes flying foam gale gleam glory gray Gulf Stream gulls Hamish Maclaren hand harbor hear heard heart heave heaven Henry Bellamann Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier John Hall Wheelock land leap light Lord mast mighty moon morning never night o'er ocean Poems port reef roar rocks rolling Round Cape Horn sail sailor sand shining ship shore shrouds silent sing skipper sleep song soul sound spars spray stars Stone Fleet storm surge sweep sweet tempest thee There's thou thunder tide topsails vessel voice W. H. Davies watch waters waves whale wild Wilfrid Wilson Gibson wind wings wonder wreck Yo-ho-ho