Poems about Adventure

• Lost And Given Over

  A Mermaid’s not a human thing, 
    An’ courtin’ such is folly; 

  by Edwin James Brady 99 lines, 1 comment
• Sea Traders

  Droppin' down to Rio on a buckin' wooden tramp;
  Takin' water for'r'd till her rotten planks were damp;

  by Burt Franklin Jenness 17 lines
• Jaspers from the "Beeswax Ship"

  An ancient candlemaker molded wax
  With tiny wicks for prayer to send a light

  by Vera Joyce Nelson 18 lines
• Home Round The Horn

  It's blowing up squally, it's piping like hell,
  And the packet she rolls till she tinkles her bell;

  by Bill Adams 29 lines
• A Shadow Boat

  Under my keel another boat
  Sails as I sail, floats as I float;

  by Arlo Bates 14 lines
• My Four Little Johnny-Cakes

  Hurrah for the Lachlan, boys, and join me in a cheer;
  That's the place to go to make a cheque every year.

  by Anonymous Oceania 32 lines
• The Big Black Trawler

  THE very best ship that ever I knew
  —Ah-way O, to me O—

  by Alfred Noyes 23 lines
• The Bards Who Lived at Manly

  The camp  of high-class spielers,
      Who sneered in summer dress,

  by Henry Lawson 169 lines
• The Tarry Buccaneer

  I'm going to be a pirate with a bright brass pivot-gun,
  And an island in the Spanish Main beyond the setting sun,

  by John Masefield 25 lines, 3 comments
• Pharonnida

  BOOK I. Canto I
  

  by William Chamberlayne 226 lines
• Bound For Sourabaya!

  OH, the moon shines bright, and we sail to-night,
  And we’re bound for Sourabaya!

  by Charles Henry Soutar 41 lines, 1 comment
• The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon

  Part I
  MY loving countrymen, pray lend an ear,     

  by James Revel 367 lines
• Drink to the Men Who Have Gone Ashore

  The Skipper and Chief have gone ashore
  And each is a married man,

  by William M.P. McFee 30 lines
• Losing The Land

  The sea seemed very blue and wide
  After the muddy harbor tide;

  by Lincoln Colcord 15 lines
• Christmas Island

  One day we raised your lonely hills
  Like clouds against the sky,

  by Lincoln Colcord 3 lines
• Java Head

  Ships of all nations and all venturing times
  Have passed and left you on the starboard lee,

  by Lincoln Colcord 3 lines
• Windlass Chanty

  Oh, soon she’ll bite the swell, the breeze is singing,
  Sandy Hook is dropping fast astern!

  by Lincoln Colcord 9 lines
• Hong Kong

  In Lymoon Pass we felt the land
  Grow near and high on either hand;

  by Lincoln Colcord 9 lines
• The Fishing Fleet

  Brown sails of fishing boats
  On a sea of jade,

  by Lincoln Colcord 23 lines
• Gaspar Straits

  We passed the Watcher at night
  And dawn put out its sinking light;

  by Lincoln Colcord 17 lines
• The North Watcher

  What poet named you, setting your beacon there
  On a lone island, lighting all the miles

  by Lincoln Colcord 3 lines
• The Westerlies

  Cold winds, dead aft, and heavy running seas
  That swung us onward faster than the breeze;

  by Lincoln Colcord 7 lines
• Fernando De Noronha

  We lay becalmed; the white-hot sun
  Beat down above an even swell;

  by Lincoln Colcord 3 lines
• Trade Winds

  Northeast trade winds bore us south,
  Southeast drew us on;

  by Lincoln Colcord 8 lines

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