Old Ironsides Poems - Poems about Old Ironsides

...inundate our great nation. Flotsam and jetsam next us ride, Floating, helpless, on surging tide; The framework of Old Ironsides Drifts to history’s rocks abide. Its hardy hull to wormwood turned While loud progressive termites c......Read More

...massive oak timbers  hearty men piped to action mighty war machine planks resisted cannonballs  like our nation, st......Read More

...hunt To find a mind that he can stunt; He says ‘they’re sitting all up front And you can hear them as they grunt’ Old Ironsides rolls into view And says he’s looking for a clue; I close my eyes and say ‘me too’ ’cause something see......Read More

...Only silence dresses her rigging now To the call of the bosun’s whistle Her hatches now stand locked and secure Wher......Read More