Chanteys And Ballads, Sea-Chanteys, Tramp-Ballads And Other Ballads And Poems

Harry Kemp

• Publisher: Baltzell Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781409792635
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473385733
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

A beautiful collection of ballads from land and sea. A perfect companion for anybody interested that classic sound of flowing poems and rugged voices.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• To My Readers
• Chanteys
• Fo’c’sle Comradeship
• A Seaman’s Confession of Faith
• The Remedy
• There’s Nothing like a Ship at Sea
• A Shining Ship
• Going down in Ships
• The Ship of Dreams
• A Whaler’s Confession
• The Girl that married Another Man
• The Doldrums
• Good-bye
• The Chantey of the Cook
• At Sea I learned the Weather
• Clipper Days
• The Steamboat Sailor’s Reply
• The Old Sailor’s Remedy
• The Sailor’s Farewell
• The Fog
• A Sailor’s Life
• Jim
• Shanghaied
• The Sailor’s Return
• The Endless Lure
• Sailormen
• The Wreck
• The Storm
• The Shipwrecked Sailor
• Wind-jammer’s Song
• The Chant of the Derelict
• Seaside Talkers
• Said the Captain to Me
• Then
• The Beach Comber
• The Ballad of English John, the Buccaneer
• A Caribbean Fantasy
• Buccaneer Days
• Ghost-song of the Spanish Buccaneers
• When Thran was King
• There was a Little Queen in Egypt
• The Chantey of Noah and His Ark
• When Ham and Shem and Japhet—
• The Chantey of Jonah
• Hesperides
• Recollection
• I’ve decked the Tops
• Jail, a Tramp Rhythm
• Autobiography
• Ballad of Complaint against the Vagrant Life
• The Scarecrow Woman
• The Call
• Riding by Night
• The Return
• Experience
• A Tramp’s Prayer
• The Wild Bird
• March Night
• Let Me be still Life’s Fool
• Go tell the Lying World
• God’s Bacchante
• Star-facts
• Midnight
• Transmutation
• Rain-sadness
• Moon-dawn
• The Cry of Man
• Towards Dawn
• Why?
• Blind
• Autumn Twilight
• The Wind’s Life
• Lightning
• The Dawn
• Wonder
• Transit Gloria
• To One who said he was bored with Life
• Exuberance
• The Humming Bird
• Tell all the World
• Wind-magic
• The Chantey of the Galilean Fisherman
• Chant of the Widow’s Mite
• The Going of His Feet
• Lazarus Speaks
• The Angel’s Anthem
• The Unrepentant Thief
• A Rhyme of Two wayfarers
• The Playmate
• A Chantey of Growing Green Things
• The Rhyme of the Prodigal
• The Rhyme of the Elder Brother
• A Fantasy of Heaven
• Highwayman’s Song
• The Madman
• The Dead Lover
• The Disembodied
• Truth and Lie
• The Booth of Happiness
• Unnumbered Worlds
• The Haunted House
• The Ballad of the Living Dead
• The Game Warden’s Son
• The Betrayal
• He did not Know
• The Fiddler
• Street Lamps
• A Poet’s Room
• Farewell