Tag Archive for: Sailing and the Sea

Trifles

Trifles 2239 You little thought the word you lightly spoke Would sear the heart of one you called your friend, And through long days cause him to writhe and bend In voiceless agony beneath its yoke You did not know that half-contemptuous…

Break, Break, Break

Break, Break, Break ALFRED TENNYSON 3783 Break break, break, NYSON On the cold, gray stones O sen! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me Oh well for the fisherman's boy That he shouts with his sister at play!…

Spelling Reform At Pumpin Hallow

Spelling Reform at Pumpin Hallow 1331 Parson Graham called a meetin which was held last Wednesday night For the purpose of decidin' how to spell our language right Everybody in the hollow for the past three weeks or so Had been turrably excited;…

The Man Who Deceived Himself

This is the story of Evarra-man- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea Because the city gave him of her gold, Because the caravans brought turquoises, **** he made An image of his God in gold and pearl, With turquoise diadem and human eyes,…

Gypsying

GYPSYING 4044 Your spirit makes a wanderer of mine! I cannot choose but leave my hearth and go I care not where nor how- If but on hill or sky you shine, At pleasure of the gypsy wind Like to the whirling leaves I blow! I cannot choose…

Books Of The Old Testament

Books of the Old Testament 2125 The great Jehovah speaks to us In Genesis and Exodus Loviticus and Numbers seo Followed by Deuteronomy Joshua and Judges sway the land, Ruth gleans a sheat with trembling hand Samuel and numerous Kings appear,…

Humility

HUMILITY 5546 Ensainting all the visible world, the dim And reticent night upon the harvest lands In silent benediction lays its hands; Curved as the chine of a great beast, the grim Hill heaves against the sky its shaggy rim- One of the…

Song Of The Remorseful Twilight

Song of the Remorseful Twilight 1793 sumtimes wenn u are kummen hoam at nite frum playen hookey nuthen semes uz brite uz it did in the mornen wenn u hurd temtashuns voyce that kum to u ann sturd ure eavul pashuns up ann then uno how turble…

The Bubble And The Gold

The Bubble and the Gold 3741 THE diver in unshapely coat of mail Sank eagerly to search out hintedgold With passing interest, as his lines were told, The crowd looked on-then turned with shouts to hail A gaily clouted clown in shallop frail Who…

Princeton

Princeton 4689 When first I went to Princeton I was just as green as green, "Ding-dong, ding!" says the Old North bell, To tell the truth I didn't know a proctor from the Dean, "Ding-dong, ding!" says the Old North bell I was an ig-no-ram-i-ous-or…

A Leap-Year Plunge

A Leap-Year Plunge 3945 Oh, a dreary life it are To be a fascinatin' tar And live on land in leap-year when the willin' maids is wooin'; And it drives me half insane When I thinks o' Mary Jane And the way that I rejected of 'er billin'…

The Sexton

THE SEXTON 43610 Nigh to a grave that was newly made Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade His task was done, and he paused to wall The funeral train through the open gate A relic of bygone days was he, And his locks were as white…

Never Alone

Never Alone 4735 I've seen the lighining lashing And heard the thunder rošt; I'vo felt ain's breakers dashing Trying to conquer my soul: I've heard the voice of my Savior, Telling me still to fight on: He promised never to leave me,…

We’Ve Heard It Before

We've Heard it Before 3594 A million must toll that a thousand may play- It's the same old story; The man in the shop yearns to pitch the new hay, The hand in the field longs to hurry away to labor in town for $ a day- It's the same old story;…

Looking For Trouble

Looking for Trouble 3942 If what "they say" is really true, that all the woes that vex The men-folks are occasioned by the fairer, weaker sex, The former ought to sail away across the wide, wide sea To some far land where they could dwell…

Little Son

Little Son 581-5 When twilight shakes her hourglass at the sun And fairies froin their poppled fastness flee, Then, little boy, with empty arms I wait To sing you: "Bobby Shafto's gone to sea" I like to think that up among the stars We used…

Spelling Reform In Puzzle-Dom

SPELLING REFORM IN PUZZLE-DOM 4367 Did anybody say anything about Reformed Spelling? No, it isn't my wicked intent to stir up a row during this season of good will, but I must take this occasion to say that for economy of space we puzzlists…

Skipper Ireson’s Ride

Skipper Ireson's Ride 2873 BY John Greenleaf Whittier Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme On Apulentus' Golden Ass, Or one-eved Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human hack, Islam's prophet…

Twilight

Twilight 1535 Crested waves and a long gray beach Far and far as the eyes may reach- Twilight falling on tide and foam, On a silvery sea-gull winging home, On a little pool left by the spendthrift sea Where pale stars gladden the heart…

Lyric In May

LYRIC IN MAY 3903 The glad, eternal spirit of the Spring Steals o'er the greening earth liko some soft sigh The mating birds will soon begin to sing; And thou and I, Sweetheart, and thou and I? Over the purple foothills in the west The fleeey…