A Sailor's Garland

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By John Masefield

Compiled by John
Masefield

Published 1908
Methuen

Sea poetry

328 pages

Original from the University of California

Digitized Sep 10, 2007

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INTRODUCTION	1
sailor, intrepid, sails
BEDDOES	7
awning, pales, masts
ANONYMOUS	14

WALT WHITMAN	4
beryl, sails, masts
HENRY NEWBOLT	24
arll, outland, piper
LORD BYRON	33
swyn, normans, sluys

ANONYMOUS	41
horseley, shipp, nowe
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT	58
amain, sconce, drake
WILLIAM WARNER	64
armado, parma, remaineth
GEORGE PEELE PACR	69
alongst, sweepstake, sayle
GERVASE MARKHAM	76
grenville, gunner, eche
HENRY NEWBOLT	82
capten, dreamin, scudo
ANONYMOUS	89
gabriel, iberia, gunner
ANONYMOUS	96
malago, frigates, spaniards
GEORGE HARRISON	104
benbow, bastimentos, amboina
ANONYMOUS pGE	114
goree, bello, kempenfelt
ANONYMOUS	120
arethusa, rodney, grasse
ANONYMOUS	126
tars, huzza, texel
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE	142
laith, cheerly, boatswain
MARTYN PARKER	160
bowlines, staysails, geers
ANONYMOUS	173
kimbo, carronade, cheerly
ANONYMOUS	187
bobs, gainst, tongs
ANONYMOUS	188
frigate, forrard, lanthorns
THE STORY OF JONAH POEMS OF MERMAIDS	198
tarshish, jonah, robyn
S T COLERIDGE	205
shrieve, countree, albatross
MATTHEW ARNOLD	225
oogo, dolor, ailsa
ANONYMOUS	231
rosmer, svane, frae
GEORGE CHAPMAN	237
bonny, jimp, annie
The Seamans Happy Return	249
bonny, dido, constance
THOMAS NASHE AND CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE	259

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PAGE	25
oogo, alongst, horseley
CHARLES SACKVILLE	268
seamen, seaman, gravesend
ANONYMOUS	281
salcombe, dory, privateer
CHARLES KINGSLEY	297
chanty, aves, capstan
XXX	303
lowlands, whiskey, johnny
Sally Brown	315
hilo, bullies, hains
Sebastopol	321
sebastopol, guardroom, haul
Leave her Johnny	327
fcaf, boohs, eighth edition
A SELECTION OF BOOKS	12
fcaf, demy, belloc

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Scotland, In - Page 285
HENRY MARTYN THERE were three brothers in merry Scotland, In merry Scotland there were three, And each of these brothers they did cast lots To see ...

Brest - Page 127
For to block up Brest harbour Lord Bridport set sail, And the mouth of the Texel our fleet did not fail, To shut up and keep the Dutch rogues in their ...
more pages: 55

Dover - Page 68
They coasted round about our land, And so came in by Dover ; But we had men set on them then And threw the rascals over, And threw the rascals over. ...
more pages: 145 235

London, Oh - Page 279
Our noble Captain's gone to London, Oh ! preserve them from the press, Send him safely back to Terry, There to court his bonny lass. ...

Cartagena - Page 61
To one rich island they were bent : But wind and storm turned their pretence, And other course they then invent. With Cartagena they set at last, ...

Portsmouth - Page 190
of the voyage past, And the ship to Portsmouth arrived at last; The sails all furled, and the anchor cast, The happiest of the crew was Jack Robinson. ...
more pages: 242

Amsterdam - Page 323
THE MAID OF AMSTERDAM (CAPSTAN) IN Amsterdam there dwelt a maid, Mark well what I do say ; In Amsterdam there dwelt a maid, ...
more pages: 302

Greenwich - Page 182
And lie in Greenwich tier. There's schooners in the river A riding to the chain, But I shall never, ever Put out to sea again, Put out to sea again. ...

Torbay - Page 117
Then follow'd the Dunkirk and Torbay, The guns aloud did rattle, the shells aloud did play, Which made the French their batteries shun, And from their ...

Bristol - Page 277
A seaman from Bristol my husband shall be, For all sorts of tradesmen a sailor for me. With a scarlet coat soldier in a bold bandoleer, ...
more pages: 92

London - Page 41
When eighty merchants of London came, And downe they knelt upon their knee. " O yee are welcome, rich merchants ; Good saylors, welcome unto mee." ...
more pages: 44 201 242 260 278

Dundee - Page 36
(He that led the flinching in the fleets of fair Dundee) " Oh the ice-blink white and near, And the bowhead breaching clear! ...

Rome - Page 67
Remaineth, what she won, what Spain and Rome did lose in fame: Remaineth, Popes use potentates but to retrieve their game. WILLIAM WARNER THE DEFEAT ...
more pages: 70

Venice - Page 173
Thirty Guns the Ship did bear, They were bound for Venice fair, I. Thirty guns his Ship did bear, And a hundred men so dear, ...

Tunis - Page xv
a short service aboard the Lion's Whelp man-of-war, turned pirate, with a crew of drunken mates, and at last turned Turk and settled down at Tunis. ...

Tripoli - Page 135
Back to the flags that fly Half-mast at Tripoli, Back on the sullen drum Mourning Victoria, Loud, ay, and jubilant, ...

Liverpool - Page x
One could find a dozen like Chaucer's shipman in any dock in Liverpool or New York or Sydney or San Francisco. He no longer wears " falclyng," or ...

New York - Page 137
2 Ny, too near, too close, so that the next man cannot haul. 4 Boote, ship's boat. 3 Taylia, O, tally on, take hold and haul.
more pages: x

San Francisco - Page x
One could find a dozen like Chaucer's shipman in any dock in Liverpool or New York or Sydney or San Francisco. He no longer wears " falclyng," or ...

Paris - Page 284
John Dory bought him an ambling nag To Paris for to ride-a. And when John Dory to Paris was come A little before the gate-a; John Dory was fitted, ...

Plymouth - Page 74
At Plymouth speedilye, took they ship valiantlye, Braver ships never were seen under sayle, With their fair colours spread, and streamers ore their ...

Coquimbo - Page 59
At Cuba silver, at Coquimbo gold, At China cloth and precious silks he found. Pearl at the Pearled Isles he did behold; Rich cochineels hoarded did ...

Sydney - Page 310
The fine full-rigged clipper to Sydney was bound, Give its a chance to blow the man down. She was very well manned and very well found, Away-hay—blow ...
more pages: x

Don Pedro - Page 67
There was a little man, that dwelt in Spain, Who shot well in a gun-a, Don Pedro hight, as black a wight As the Knight of the Sun-a, ...