Famous Sailing Boat Poems by Famous Poets

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Lovers Gifts XVI: She Dwelt Here by the Pool

...She dwelt here by the pool with its landing-stairs in ruins. Many
an evening she had watched the moon made dizzy by the shaking of
bamboo leaves, and on many a rainy day the smell of the wet earth
had come to her over the young shoots of rice.
Her pet name is known here among those date-palm groves and
in the courtyards where girls sit and talk while stitc...Read more of this...
by Tagore, Rabindranath


The Wreck of the Steamer Stella

...n each man was done with his turn he fell asleep. 

And about six o'clock in the morning a man shrieked out,
"There's a sailing boat coming towards us without any doubt";
And before the sailing boat could get near, a steamer hove in sight,
Which proved to be the steamer "Lynx," to their delight. 

And they were conveyed to Guernsey without delay,
Poor souls, with their hearts in a state of joy and dismay;
But alas! more than eighty persons have been lost in the briny deep,
Bu...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

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