Famous Fore And Aft Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Fore And Aft poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous fore and aft poems. These examples illustrate what a famous fore and aft poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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To their health that night.
But hurchin Cupid shot a shaft,
That play’d a dame a shavie—
The fiddler rak’d her, fore and aft,
Behint the chicken cavie.
Her lord, a wight of Homer’s craft, 3
Tho’ limpin wi’ the spavie,
He hirpl’d up, an’ lap like daft,
An’ shor’d them Dainty Davie
O’ boot that night.
He was a care-defying blade
As ever Bacchus listed!
Tho’ Fortune sair upon him laid,
His heart, she ever miss’d it.
He had no wish but—to be glad,
Nor want but—wh...Read more of this...
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Burns, Robert
...See her come bearing down, a tidy craft!
Gaily her topsails bulge, her sidelights burn!
There's jigging in her rigging fore and aft,
And beauty's self, not name, limned on her stern.
See at her head the Jolly Roger flutters!
"God, is she fully manned? If she's one short..."
Cadet, bargee, longshoreman, shellback mutters;
Drowned is reason that should me comfort.
But habit, like a cork, rides the dark flood,
And, like a cork, keeps her in walls of glass;
Faint legacies of b...Read more of this...
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Amis, Kingsley
...training on her net, and heavily she creeps,
Cast off, cast off - she feels the oars, and to her berth she sweeps;
Now fore and aft keep hauling, and gathering up the clew.
Till a silver wave of salmon rolls in among the crew.
Then they may sit, with pipes a-lit, and many a joke and 'yarn'
Adieu to Belashanny; and the winding banks of Erne!
The music of the waterfall, the mirror of the tide,
When all the green-hill'd harbour is full from side to side,
From Portnasun to B...Read more of this...
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Allingham, William
...id advance.
And the "Blanche's" crew without dismay
Fired a broadside into the "Pique" without delay,
Which raked her fore and aft, and knocked her to smash,
And the mizzen mast fell overboard with a terrible crash.
Then the Frenohmen rushed forward to board the "Blanche,"
But in doing so they had a very poor chance,
For the British Tars in courage didn't lack,
Because thrice in succession on their own deck they were driven back.
Then "Brave, my lads!" Captain Faulkner ...Read more of this...
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McGonagall, William Topaz
...It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,
For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like sheep, --
They are trav'lers for the most part in a straight 'n' honest path;
But their linen's rather scanty, an' there isn't any bath --
Stowed away like ewes and wethers that is shore 'n' marked 'n' draft.
But the shearers ...Read more of this...
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Lawson, Henry
...I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw,
And set the blooming world a-work for me,
Like such as cut their teeth -- I hope, like you --
On the handle of a skeleton gold key;
I cut mine on a leek, which I eat it every week:
I'm a clerk at thirty bob as you can see.
But I don't allow it's luck and all a toss;
There's no such thing as being starred and cross...Read more of this...
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Davidson, John
...'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November,
Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" will long remember,
She was bound to Baltimore with a cargo of pine lumber;
But, alas! the crew suffered greatly from cold and hunger.
'Twas on December 3rd when about ten miles south-west
Of Currituck light, and scudding at her best;
That a heavy ga...Read more of this...
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McGonagall, William Topaz
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