Sailor Poems


A Sailor's Song Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem Hunter

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The Sailor’s Song, Returning Poem by Parsons Lathrop Poem Hunter

IRISH BLESSING 2. May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night. May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire. May you have warm words on a cool evening,


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Throughout history, poets have been inspired by the sea and the art of sailing. In this category, we will explore some of the most famous poems about sailing, which have captured the essence of the seafaring life. 1. A Gray Day. by Ruby Archer. A gray day, and the gulls are gone. Visor of mist o'er the sun is drawn.


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16. "A Sailor's Prayer" by Unknown. This prayer/poem begins, "I am just a sailor, a protector of our land. A servant called to battle when my country takes a stand.". This would be a beautiful piece to include on the memorial card for a loved one who was a sailor. 17. "A Sailor's Ballad" by Ruby Archer.


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Michael Rogers 1974 (NJ) A few Sailors stood watch while others were dreaming. In a 80-man berthing, cramped one and all. And to see inside just who might perhaps live. No tinsel, no presents, not even a tree. On the bulkhead hung pictures of a far distant land. And a sober thought came into my mind.


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A Sailor Ballad. Oh, tie your knot with a tug and twist, And never a careless bend, Look out for strands that you may have missed, And never leave a loose end. In law or love will the ruling hold: If trouble away you'd fend, Be careful ever, and often bold, But never leave a loose end.


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Poems about Sailing and Love. 1. Love as the Wind. This poem draws parallels between love and the wind that fills a sail, guiding a boat across the sea. Just as the wind can be both gentle and powerful, so too can love shape the course of our lives in unpredictable ways. The wind fills sails, as love fills hearts,


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Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens) is a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien, written as a pendant to his fantasy The Lord of the Rings. It was first published in a Dutch translation in 1973, subsequently appearing in English on posters in 1974 and as a picture-book in 1990. [from Wikipedia.org] Day is ended, dim my eyes,


THE WATCH Poem engraved with a Lone Sailor plaque retirement Etsy

The Mariner up on the mast in a storm. One of the wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré of the poem.. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-1798 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.Some modern editions use a revised version printed in.


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The Sailor's Grave at Clo-oose, V.I. By Marjorie Pickthall. Out of the winds' and the waves' riot, Out of the loud foam, He has put in to a great quiet. And a still home. Here he may lie at ease and wonder. Why the old ship waits, And hark for the surge and the strong thunder.


The Sailor's Mother Poem by William Wordsworth

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A Sailor's Christmas. Twas the night before Christmas, the ship was out steaming, Sailors stood watch while others were dreaming. They lived in a crowd with racks tight and small, In a 80-man berthing, cramped one and all. I had come down the stack with presents to give, And to see inside just who might perhaps live.


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Hulton Archive / Getty Images. Langston Hughes, writing from the 1920s through the 1960s, is known as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance and for telling the stories of his people in down-to-earth ways as opposed to esoteric language.He worked many odd jobs as a young man, one being a seaman, which took him to Africa and Europe. Perhaps that knowledge of the ocean informed this poem from his.


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Crossing the Bar. And one clear call for me! Turns again home. And after that the dark! When I have crost the bar. To a arrange a committal service by the Royal Navy - Royal Navy Committal. The classic poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar is ideally suitable to a scattering ceremony for a sailor. It is beautiful and evocative.


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THE SAILOR'S PRAYER ( T The following poem, "The Sailor's Prayer," was sent the Press by John William Babbs, a son of Mr. and Mrs.


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Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the snowy clifts.