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Foremast Poems - Poems about Foremast


Danapoint
...I wanted to see sailing ships again so I went to Dana Point last week to revisit the Brig Pilgrim, gift from Denmark to the United States honoring Henry Richard Dana’s voyage around Cape Horn in 1......

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Categories: foremast, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Only a Lighthouse
...How black the seas in a pounding storm! The lanterns were all blown out. Only the lights within still burned For crewmen strong and stout. The flash from the clouds would scarce reveal ......

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Categories: foremast, sea,
Form: Quatrain



Sea Shanty
...As they were sailing ‘cross the ocean deep They watched the sunrise and the diving grebe. When up in the top, the lookout did spy A storm advancing, with his weather eye. The helmsman heeded the wo......

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Categories: foremast, death,
Form: Couplet
Went Down She Did
... " Went Down She Did " Twere that Fantome went down went down so she did Chosen she that Devil against then so to bid Her souls naught but bravest... bravest thirty-three As fury o'that temp......

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Categories: foremast, adventure, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic Justice
...Visualize my children and you shall look Upon the voyage of Captain James R. Cook; It was the eighteenth of January in Seventeen Seventy-Eight; Hardly a Hawaiian can forget the Date; What befell ......

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Categories: foremast, history, god, missing, god,
Form: Ballad




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