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Book: Salt Water Ballads

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  • The West Wind
    It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
    I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
    28 lines, 65,535 comments
  • On Eastnor Knoll
    Silent are the woods, and the dim green boughs are
    Hushed in the twilight: yonder, in the path through
    12 lines
  • A Pier-Head Chorus
    Oh I'll be chewing salted horse and biting flinty bread,
    And dancing with the stars to watch, upon the fo'c's'le head,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Trade Winds
    In the harbour, in the island, in the Spanish Seas,
    Are the tiny white houses and the orange-trees,
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • The Golden City of St. Mary
    Out beyond the sunset could I but find the way,
    Is a sleepy blue laguna which widens to a bay,
    19 lines
  • Sea Fever
    I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
    And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
    13 lines, 17 comments
  • A Night At Dago Tom's
    Oh yesterday, I t'ink it was, while cruisin' down the street,
    I met with Bill. — "Hullo," he says, "let's give the girls a tre
    24 lines
  • Hell's Pavement
    “When I’m discharged at Liverpool ‘n’ draws my bit o’ pay,
    I won’t come to sea no more;
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • Mother Carey (As told Me by the Bo'sun)
    Mother Carey? She's the mother o' the witches
    'N' all them sort o' rips;
    34 lines, 2 comments
  • The Yarn of the Loch Achray
    The Loch Achray was a clipper tall
    With seven-and-twenty hands in all.
    88 lines
  • A Valediction
    We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,
    It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to go;
    21 lines
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