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Famous Shipmate Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Shipmate poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous shipmate poems. These examples illustrate what a famous shipmate poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...man to desert
These crippled comrades, -- try to make them rest 
More easy on the thwarts. And John, my son, 
My little shipmate, come and lean your head 
Against your father's knee. Do you recall
That April morn in Ethelburga's church,
Five years ago, when side by side we kneeled
To take the sacrament with all our men,
Before the Hopewell left St. Catherine's docks 
On our first voyage? It was then I vowed
My sailor-soul and years to search the sea
Until we found the water-p...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van



...JOY! shipmate—joy! 
(Pleas’d to my Soul at death I cry;) 
Our life is closed—our life begins; 
The long, long anchorage we leave, 
The ship is clear at last—she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore; 
Joy! shipmate—joy!...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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