Famous Shipmates Poems by Famous Poets
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by
Moody, William Vaughn
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What harbor town for thee?
What shapes, when thy arriving tolls,
Shall crowd the banks to see?
Shall all the happy shipmates then
Stand singing brotherly?
Or shall a haggard ruthless few
Warp her over and bring her to,
While the many broken souls of men
Fester down in the slaver's pen
And nothing to say or do?...Read more of this...
by
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...k! how the wind comes out of the haven's arms to greet us,
Bringing with it the song that is sung on the ancient shore!
Shipmates, furl we our sailswe have left the seas behind us,
Gladly finding at last our homes and our loves once more....Read more of this...
by
Lindsay, Vachel
...e
Over the ocean's floor,
[They walk backward with slow long-armed gestures indicating the entire horizon line.]
Shipmates once more,
For ten thousand years.
WOMEN'S LEADER:
The Queen of Sheba asked him like a lady,
Bowing most politely:
[They bow to each other, the Queen indicating the depths of the sea.]
"Why is the sea so deep,
What secret does it keep
While tides a-roaring leap
Ten thousand years?"
MEN'S LEADER:
King Solomon made answer to the lady...Read more of this...
by
Sexton, Anne
...
There was a church where I grew up
with its white cupboards where they locked us up,
row by row, like puritans or shipmates
singing together. My father passed the plate.
Too late to be forgiven now, the witches said.
I wasn't exactly forgiven. They had my portrait
done instead.
3.
All that summer sprinklers arched
over the seaside grass.
We talked of drought
while the salt-parched
field grew sweet again. To help time pass
I tried to mow...Read more of this...
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