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Book: Sailor's Delight

Edited by Cicely Fox Smith

Note by editor:

The author desires to thank the Proprietors of PUNCH, for permission to reprint most of the pieces included in this volume; also the Editor of COUNTRY LIFE for similar permission in regard to "The Passing of Sail"; the Editor of HOLLY LEAVES  for "Sailor's Delight", "The Last Ship", "Beauty", and "Recollections"; and the CUNARD MAGAZINE for "Home for Christmas".

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  • A Dog's Life
    "Oh, a sailor's life's a dog's life, an' that's the truth," says Bill,
    "A sailor's life's a dog's life, look at it 'ow you will;
    28 lines
  • Racing Clippers (A Wool Fleet Memory)
    I've not made much o' my life, Lord knows; I'm a has-been through an' through,
    An' meanin' 's as far as I've mostly got with the thi
    45 lines, 1 comment
  • Ice: The Bosun's Story
    "Ice," said the bosun, sniffing like a dog
    Across the rail to wind'ard in the Cape Horn fog, —
    24 lines
  • A Sea Dream
    Why did I dream last night, I wonder, about the ship Ledore
    I made a passage in from China — was it 'eighty-three or four &mda
    34 lines, 2 comments
  • Dan's Epitaph
    Dan, he's dead, as I used to know
    In the ol' Thermopylae years ago;
    24 lines
  • Copper Ore
    The Jane Price of Swansea
    Thirty days out,
    36 lines
  • The Half Loaf
    There ain't the tall windjammers like we knew when we was young,
    With their masts as made a forest every water-front along;
    26 lines
  • Sailor's Delight
    Tall raking clipper ships driving hell-for-leather,
    Swinging down the Forties in the easting weather;
    43 lines
  • The Cape Horner
    I never was in clipper ships when they was in their prime:
    The tea fleet an' the wool fleet, they was done afore my time:
    46 lines
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