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Famous Towing Poems by Famous Poets

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...e owed
For waiting so devoutly and so long.
But we are wrong:

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-
Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back
A huge and birdless silence. In her wake
No waters breed or break....Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip



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Where rustic lovers stray at eve in happy simple talk.

The harmless rabbit gambols with its young
Across the trampled towing-path, where late
A troop of laughing boys in jostling throng
Cheered with their noisy cries the racing eight;
The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,
Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved sheds

Of the lone Farm a flickering light shines out
Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock
Back to their wattled sheep-cotes, a ...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar
...

One hasty glance over his shoulder,
He saw in a flash what were wrong. 
The Captain had shut off his engine,
Joe were towing the Tugboat along.

On and on through the darkness he paddled
Till he knew he were very near in 
By the way he kept bumping the bottom
And hitting the stones with his chin.

Was it Grisniz he'd reached?... No, it wasn't, 
The treacherous tide in its track 
Had carried him half-way to Blackpool 
And he had to walk all the way back....Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott
...greenness milky with her foam. 

But when we rose next morning, we discerned 
Her beauty once again a shattered thing; 
Towing to dock the Wanderer returned, 
A wounded sea-bird with a broken wing. 

A spar was gone, her rigging's disarray 
Told of a worse disaster than the last; 
Like draggled hair dishevelled hung the stay, 
Drooping and beating on the broken mast. 

Half-mast upon her flagstaff hung her flag; 
Word went among us how the broken spar 
Had gored her captain l...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John

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