Songs of the Sea & Sailors' Chanteys: An AnthologyRobert Frothingham Houghton Mifflin, 1924 - 288 pages |
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Page 81
... , a last berth beside the knackers quay ; For our ships are getting rotten And our people have forgotten The mission of the vessel and the glory of the sea . Thomas Fleming Day TOM BOWLING Here , a sheer hulk , lies poor.
... , a last berth beside the knackers quay ; For our ships are getting rotten And our people have forgotten The mission of the vessel and the glory of the sea . Thomas Fleming Day TOM BOWLING Here , a sheer hulk , lies poor.
Page 82
... poor Tom find pleasant weather , When He who all commands , Shall give , to call Life's crew together , The word to " pipe all hands . ” Thus Death , who kings and tars despatches , In vain Tom's life has doffed ; For , though his ...
... poor Tom find pleasant weather , When He who all commands , Shall give , to call Life's crew together , The word to " pipe all hands . ” Thus Death , who kings and tars despatches , In vain Tom's life has doffed ; For , though his ...
Page 105
... poor mortality of man Seek vainly for some plan- Know that great empires pass as I must pass Like withered blades of grass- Dead blades of Patna grass . ― " Breathe- breathe the odorous sweetness that is ours , " Cry Frangipani flowers ...
... poor mortality of man Seek vainly for some plan- Know that great empires pass as I must pass Like withered blades of grass- Dead blades of Patna grass . ― " Breathe- breathe the odorous sweetness that is ours , " Cry Frangipani flowers ...
Page 148
... poor coasting - pilot he , Hervé Riel the Croi- sickese . And " What mockery or malice have we here ? ” cries Hervé Riel : " Are you mad , you Malouins ? Are you cowards , fools , or rogues ? HERVÉ RIEL 149 Talk to me of rocks and ...
... poor coasting - pilot he , Hervé Riel the Croi- sickese . And " What mockery or malice have we here ? ” cries Hervé Riel : " Are you mad , you Malouins ? Are you cowards , fools , or rogues ? HERVÉ RIEL 149 Talk to me of rocks and ...
Page 189
... poor hundred were slain , And half of the rest of us maimed for life 189 In the crash of the cannonades and the desperate strife ; And the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold , And the pikes were all broken or ...
... poor hundred were slain , And half of the rest of us maimed for life 189 In the crash of the cannonades and the desperate strife ; And the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold , And the pikes were all broken or ...
Common terms and phrases
a-roving aboard aloft anchor ashore Berton Braley blow blue boat Boney bows boys breeze captain chantey Chorus Solo Chorus clipper crew cursed dark dead deck eyes fight foam gale galleon go to sea gone grey December harbor heart heave Hervé Riel homeward bound Johnnie land laughed light look Lord Lowlands low mariners masts mate never night Number o'er ocean Paddy Doyle Penang Pierre le Grand pirates PIRATES OF TORTUGA Plymouth Hoe port rail Ranzo Refrain Solo Refrain roar rock and roll round sail sailors Sally Brown sank schooner sea's ship shore Sing the sea skipper Solo Chorus Solo Solo Oh Solo Refrain Solo song soul spray stars steer Storm-along There's thousand miles tide Tortuga trade trail tramp tropic Tusitala wait watch waves whale wind word or leave
Popular passages
Page 11 - The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 191 - Revenge with a swarthier alien crew, And away she sail'd with her loss and long'd for her own ; When a wind from the lands they had ruin'd awoke from sleep, And the water began to heave and the weather to moan, And or ever that evening ended a great gale blew, And a wave like the wave that is raised by an earthquake grew, Till it smote on their hulls and their sails and their masts and their flags, And the whole sea plunged and fell on the shotshatter'd navy of Spain, And the little Revenge herself...
Page 53 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 16 - Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Page 10 - His steps are not upon thy paths — thy fields Are not a spoil for him — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray, And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Page 1 - I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and none other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me...
Page 185 - Howard past away with five ships of war that day, Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven ; But Sir Richard bore in hand all his sick men from the land...
Page 148 - Here's the English at our heels; would you have them take in tow All that's left us of the fleet, linked together stern and bow, For a prize to Plymouth Sound? Better run the ships aground!
Page 151 - Out burst all with one accord, " This is Paradise for Hell ! Let France, let France's King Thank the man that did the thing ! " What a shout, and all one word, "HerveRiel!
Page 187 - And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.