Edwin James Brady

I lived from 1869-1952. I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.

I influenced poets Henry Lawson, John Masefield.

Links of interest include http://www.mallacootaaccommodation.com/documents/Bio2.pdf

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• The Gale

  It came upon us sudden; six solid hours it blew
  As if a thousand devils had gallivanted through

  48 lines, 1 comment
• Lost And Given Over

  A MERMAID'S not a human thing,
  An' courtin' sich is folly;

  101 lines, 3 comments
• Hides And Tallow

  HERE ain't a lavender ditty,
  Sung by a sweet-scented cove;

  142 lines
• The Wardens Of The Seas

  LIKE star points in the ether to guide a homing Soul
  Towards God's Eternal Haven; above the wash and roll,

  89 lines
• Vive Anarchy

  With the lifting of the curtain,
  Distance, dim, but grimly certain,

  62 lines
• The Great Grey Water

  Now two have met, now two have met,
  Who may not meet again—

  41 lines, 1 comment
• Sailor-Man

  'ARF a pint for me, old party -- thank'ee, mister -- 'ere's yer 'ealth --
  'Opes y'll live to be a nundred; 'opes yer luck'll bring y

  118 lines, 4 comments
• Roll The Cotton Down

  WE sing no song of Right or Wrong,
  Or War, or Fame, or Duty;

  66 lines
• Laying On The Screw

  YOU can dunnage casks o' tallow; you can handle hides an' horn;
  You can carry frozen mutton; you can lumber sacks o' corn;

  84 lines, 1 comment
• Which His Weakness Is Women

  WHEN first I met Dolores
  I swore -- a 'prentice kid --

  63 lines, 1 comment
• Homeward Bound

  WITH tallow casks all dunnaged tight, with tiers on tiers ol bales,
  With cargo crammed from hatch to hatch, she 's racing for the s

  70 lines
• They Have Bound Us

  THE round world glows in its green and rose,
  And the full buds burst to bloom:

  130 lines
• How Jack Bowlin Steered Jones

  JACK BOWLIN wuz the joker's name,
  A sailor chap wuz 'e,

  111 lines
• Yankee Packet

  YANKEE packet's down the water --
  Blow, my bully boys, blow;

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• Otahai

  ON the beach at Otahai
  You remember, you and I,

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• Nets Below The Gangway

  FOR the grey-nurse knows the barb-hook
  As the codfish kens the line,

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• The For'ard Hold

  OH, we all was tired o' waiting in the spring of eighty-three,
  When The Duke came up the 'arbour an' was berthed beside the Quay;

  54 lines
• Homing Chantey

  OH, swinging down the Western Main,
  And roaring round the Horn,

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• What The Bottle Said

  A BLISTERED span of blazing sand,
  A burning arch of sky . . .

  103 lines
• The Blazing Star

  BLAZ1N' STAR, from Boston city -- Yankee goods and kerosene;
  Foreign crew and cook and master; stout, old-fashioned brigantine.

  91 lines
• The Hiram Brown

  POWER o' ploughs and clothes-pegs in her, pork and beans for ev'ry sinner,
  Pork and beans for captain's dinner --

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• The Whaler's Pig

  WE shipped him at the Sandwich Isles --
  'Fore God, he's mostly nose!

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• Jack Marlin

  NOW at the window, side by side,
  We sit and take our ease,

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• Down In Honolulu

  'TWAS down in Honolulu,
  Way off one night afar,

  104 lines
• Sally Brown

  HER sails are furled and her anchor's down.
  The lamps are lighted in Melbourne town;

  116 lines
• The Loading of the Pride

  CLIPPER ship, the Pride of Commerce, loading now with hides and wool,
  Advertised to sail on Monday -- stevedore must get her full;

  67 lines
• The Wool Fleet

  WE have other tales for telling, we have other songs to sing,
  Who have looped the planet's waters in a plait of tarry string;

  104 lines
• With Coal to Callao

  THEY slewed her in to dump her load,
  And cleaned her aft and fore;

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• Meg O' Melbourne

  WE brought our old tub over
  With lumber, from the Sound

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• A Capstan Chantey

  WHAT did the captain say to the cook
  When the ship went down the river?

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