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The term "sailor man" has been searched for 9 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on November 15th, 2005.
1. Visits To St. Elizabeths - written by Elizabeth Bishop
Published in 1950.
Read 2569 times on Poetry Connection.
This is the house of Bedlam.
This is the man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is the time
of the tragic man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is a wristwatch
telling the time
of the talkative man
that lies in the house of... (Read full poem)
2. The Yarn of the Loch Achray - written by John Masefield
Read 1089 times on Poetry Connection.
The Loch Achray was a clipper tall
With seven-and-twenty hands in all.
Twenty to hand and reef and haul,
A skipper to sail and mates to bawl
'Tally on to the tackle-fall,
Heave now 'n' start her, heave 'n' pawl!'
Hear the yarn of a... (Read full poem)
3. 468. Song—On the Seas and far away - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1794.
Read 1193 times on Poetry Connection.
HOW can my poor heart be glad,
When absent from my sailor lad;
How can I the thought forego—
He’s on the seas to meet the foe?
Let me wander, let me rove,
Still my heart is with my love;
Nightly dreams, and thoughts by day,
Are with him... (Read full poem)
4. Poem: Serenade (For Music) - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1263 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Serenade (For Music)
The western wind is blowing fair
Across the dark AEgean sea,
And at the secret marble stair
My Tyrian galley waits for thee.
Come down! the purple sail is spread,
The watchman sleeps within the town,
O leave thy... (Read full poem)
5. Ears In The Turrets Hear - written by Dylan Thomas
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Ears in the turrets hear
Hands grumble on the door,
Eyes in the gables see
The fingers at the locks.
Shall I unbolt or stay
Alone till the day I die
Unseen by stranger-eyes
In this white house?
Hands, hold you poison or grapes?
Beyond this island... (Read full poem)
6. In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Wild Swans at Coole.
Published in 1919.
Read 1401 times on Poetry Connection.
Five-and-twenty years have gone
Since old William pollexfen
Laid his strong bones down in death
By his wife Elizabeth
In the grey stone tomb he made.
And after twenty years they laid
In that tomb by him and her
His son George, the astrologer;
And... (Read full poem)
7. Supplication - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Published in 1898.
Read 657 times on Poetry Connection.
The sea took a sailor to its depths.--
His mother, unsuspecting, goes and lights
a tall candle before the Virgin Mary
for his speedy return and for fine weather --
and always she turns her ear to the wind.
But while she prays and implores,
the... (Read full poem)
8. Come Out with Me - written by A.A. Milne
Read 1913 times on Poetry Connection.
There's sun on the river and sun on the hill . . .
You can hear the sea if you stand quite still!
There's eight new puppies at Roundabout Farm-
And I saw an old sailor with only one arm!
But everyone says, "Run along!"
(Run along, run... (Read full poem)
9. Break, Break, Break - written by Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Poems.
Published in 1842.
Read 9643 times on Poetry Connection.
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
O, well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O, well for the sailor lad,
That he... (Read full poem)
10. Sailor's Sweetheart - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 779 times on Poetry Connection.
He sleeps beside me in the bed;
Upon my breast I hold his head;
Oh how I would that we were wed,
For he sails in the morning.
I wish I had not been so kind;
But love is fain and passion blind,
While out of sight is out of mind,
And he... (Read full poem)
11. THE PROSPEROUS VOYAGE. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 472 times on Poetry Connection.
THE mist is fast clearing.
And radiant is heaven,
Whilst AEolus loosens
Our anguish-fraught bond.
The zephyrs are sighing,
Alert is the sailor.
Quick! nimbly be plying!
The billows are riven,
The distance approaches;
I see land... (Read full poem)
12. Poem: Les Silhouettes - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 3005 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Les Silhouettes
The sea is flecked with bars of grey,
The dull dead wind is out of tune,
And like a withered leaf the moon
Is blown across the stormy bay.
Etched clear upon the pallid sand
Lies the black boat: a sailor boy
Clambers... (Read full poem)
13. Song Of The Master And Boatswain - written by W. H. Auden
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At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's
We drank our liquor straight,
Some went upstairs with Margery,
And some, alas, with Kate;
And two by two like cat and mouse
The homeless played at keeping house.
There Wealthy Meg, the Sailor's... (Read full poem)
14. CALM AT SEA. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 753 times on Poetry Connection.
SILENCE deep rules o'er the waters,
Calmly slumb'ring lies the main,
While the sailor views with trouble
Nought but one vast level plain.
Not a zephyr is in motion!
Silence fearful as the grave!
In the mighty waste of ocean
Sunk to rest... (Read full poem)
15. Sailor Son - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 626 times on Poetry Connection.
When you come home I'll not be round
To welcome you.
They'll take you to a grassy mound
So neat and new;
Where I'll be sleeping--O so sound!
The ages through.
I'll not be round to broom the hearth,
To feed... (Read full poem)
16. Florrie - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 430 times on Poetry Connection.
Because I was a wonton wild
And welcomed many a lover,
Who is the father of my child
I wish I could discover.
For though I know it is not right
In tender arms to tarry,
A barmaid has to be polite
To Tom and Dick and Harry.
My... (Read full poem)
18. The Albatross - written by Charles Baudelaire
From The Flowers of Sickness and Evil.
Published in 1861.
Read 5935 times on Poetry Connection.
Often, to amuse themselves, the crew of the ship
Would fell an albatross, the largest of sea birds,
Indolent companions of their trip
As they slide across the deep sea's bitters.
Scarcely had they dropped to the plank
Than these blue kings,... (Read full poem)
19. EXOTIC PERFUME - written by Charles Baudelaire
From The Poems and Prose Poems .
Published in 1919.
Read 1696 times on Poetry Connection.
WHEN with closed eyes in autumn's eves of gold
I breathe the burning odours of your breast,
Before my eyes the hills of happy rest
Bathed in the sun's monotonous fires, unfold.
Islands of Lethe where exotic boughs
Bend with their... (Read full poem)
20. Harrow-on-the-Hill - written by John Betjeman
Read 1883 times on Poetry Connection.
When melancholy Autumn comes to Wembley
And electric trains are lighted after tea
The poplars near the stadium are trembly
With their tap and tap and whispering to me,
Like the sound of little breakers
Spreading out along the surf-line
When... (Read full poem)
21. Careers - written by Robert Graves
Read 1087 times on Poetry Connection.
Father is quite the greatest poet
That ever lived anywhere.
You say you’re going to write great music—
I chose that first: it’s unfair.
Besides, now I can’t be the greatest painter and
do Christ and angels, or lovely pears... (Read full poem)
22. My Future - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow.
Read 2322 times on Poetry Connection.
"Let's make him a sailor," said Father,
"And he will adventure the sea."
"A soldier," said Mother, "is rather
What I would prefer him to be."
"A lawyer," said Father, "would please me,
For then he could draw up my will."
"A doctor," said Mother,... (Read full poem)
23. 415. Song—The last time I cam o’er the Moor - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1793.
Read 762 times on Poetry Connection.
THE LAST time I came o’er the moor,
And left Maria’s dwelling,
What throes, what tortures passing cure,
Were in my bosom swelling:
Condemn’d to see my rival’s reign,
While I in secret languish;
To feel a fire in every... (Read full poem)
24. Mack The Knife - written by Bertolt Brecht
Read 1597 times on Poetry Connection.
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white.
Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear
And he keeps it out of sight.
When the shark bites with his teeth, dear
Scarlet billows start to spread.
Fancy gloves, though, wears Macheath,... (Read full poem)
25. My Rival - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes of a Roughneck.
Read 622 times on Poetry Connection.
If she met him or he met her,
I knew that something must occur;
For they were just like flint and steel
To strike the spark of woe and weal;
Or like two splinters broken fine,
In perfect fitness to combine;
And so I ept them well apart,
For she was... (Read full poem)
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