Poems

Bill’s Christmases “Christmas,” said Bill, “on Christmas cards, it’s winders all aglow, An’ lots o’ stuff to eat an’ drink an’ a good three feet o’ […]

British Merchant Service Oh, down by Millwall Basin as I went the other day, I met a skipper that I knew, and to him I did […]

Follow The Sea “What is it makes a man follow the sea? Ask me another!” says Billy Magee: “Maybe it’s liquor and maybe it’s love– Maybe […]

Hastings Mill As I went down by Hastings Mill I lingered in my going To smell the smell of piled-up deals and feel the salt wind […]

Lee Fore Brace There was ten men hauling on the lee fore brace In the rain an’ the drivin’ hail, An’ the mile-long graybeards chargin’ by, […]

London Seagulls The pigeons of the Abbey, the pigeons of Saint Paul’s, That woo in windy niches of grey and grimy walls, The pearl-grey dawns of […]

Outward Bound- We’ve painted the Ratcliff Highway red To the tune of twelvemonth’s pay We’ve cruised around from the “Ship Aground” To the shores of Tiger […]

Pacific Coast Half across the world to westward there’s a harbour that I know, Where the ships that load with lumber and the China liners go, […]

Retrospect- “Ain’t it rum?” said Dan one day, Yarning while he worked away At his model, all but done, Of the clipper ship Keemun– Fully rigged […]

Sailor Town Along the wharves of Sailor Town a singing whisper goes Of the wind among the anchored ships, the wind that gently blows. Of a […]