Poems about Nostalgia

• The Three-Decker

  Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail.
  It cost a watch to steer her, and a week to shorten sail;

  by Rudyard Kipling 58 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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 34 lines, 2 comments
• Mandalay

  By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea,
  There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;

  by Rudyard Kipling 57 lines, 5 comments
• Sea Dreams

  If you've ever stood a midwatch in the cavern of the night,
  With the sea wolves racing past you in a pack;

  by Burt Franklin Jenness 46 lines, 1 comment
• In the Droving Days

  "Only a pound," said the auctioneer,
  "Only a pound; and I'm standing here

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 100 lines, 8 comments
• All's Well

  There's an ache in my heart, and I can't tell why,
  Something to do with the sea and sky,

  by Bill Adams 18 lines, 1 comment
• The Surprise

  As there I left the road in May,
  And took my way along a ground,

  by William Barnes 31 lines
• El enemigo brutal (Verso XXVII)

  El enemigo brutal
  Nos pone fuego a la casa:

  by Jose Marti 28 lines, 2 comments
• The Old Lady

  The little, fragile, white-haired lady
  Stepped outside in the English moon,

  by Stella Wood 16 lines, 1 comment
• Mid-Watches

  Will you ever forget the mid-watches at sea?
  How you tumbled out sleepy and dazed,

  by Burt Franklin Jenness 23 lines, 1 comment
• Years Have Trailed Past

  Years have trailed past like clouds over a country,
  And they'll never return, for they're gone forever,

  by Mihai Eminescu 16 lines, 1 comment
• Ship Logs

  Ship logs for firewood – take them as you find them,
  Broken ends of timber that are good for nothing more,

  by Ronald A Hopwood 36 lines
• Portrait Of A Lady-2

  Pilot boat, lighthouse,
  Stiff green sea —

  by Cicely Fox Smith 59 lines
• Nod

    Softly along the road of evening,
      In a twilight dim with rose,

  by Walter de la Mare 23 lines, 1 comment
• Bumboats

  I've had a whirl at games of chance
      From Bombay 'round to Cork,

  by Burt Franklin Jenness 61 lines, 2 comments
• Captain Stratton’s Fancy

  Oh some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white,
  And some are all for dancing by the pale moonlight:

  by John Masefield 33 lines, 1 comment
• The Old Scuttle-Butt

  How dear to my heart are the scenes of my cruises,
  When fond recollection presents them to view.

  by Burt Franklin Jenness 24 lines
• Sé de un pintor atrevido (Verso XXIV)

  Sé de un pintor atrevido
  Que sale a pintar contento

  by Jose Marti 15 lines
• Horses

  Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
  On the bare field - I wonder, why, just now,

  by Edwin Muir 33 lines, 1 comment
• On Reading Ballads

  We lay upon a flowery hill
              Close by the railway lines,

  by Arthur Graeme West 58 lines
• The Sea Dog

  I wandered up and down the quay to-day,
  And yesterday, and many days before,

  by Burt Franklin Jenness 44 lines
• Dreams Of The Sea

  I know not why I yearn for thee again,
  To sail once more upon thy fickle flood;

  by William H Davies 29 lines, 2 comments
• I've Been Dreamin'

  I've been dreamin',
  Of a randy, dandy clipper with her tops'ls set,

  by Bill Adams 50 lines
• Trade Winds

  In the harbour, in the island, in the Spanish Seas,
  Are the tiny white houses and the orange-trees,

  by John Masefield 13 lines, 1 comment
• The King's Jester

  It's oh to bear a weary heart
      Among the shine and show!

  by Cicely Fox Smith 24 lines
• Cuentan que antaño

  Cuentan que antaño,—y por si no lo cuentan,
  Invéntolo,—un labriego que quería

  by Jose Marti 22 lines
• From 'The Cupboard' (Le buffet)

  A large carved cupboard of white oak
  emanates that relaxed gentle air

  by Arthur Rimbaud 40 lines
• Mejillones

  I don't want to go back to Mejillones,
  On the dusty Chile shore;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 31 lines
• Shore Roads Of April

  What do I see and hear of an April morning?
  Many a ridge and furrow, headland and bay,

  by Bill Adams 24 lines
• A Sigh

  O Life! -- what a dream,
    What a tale that is told!

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 35 lines

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