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A Rover Chanty Arthur Conan Doyle	There's gold on the capstan, and blood on the gown: Ho for bully rover Jack, Waiting with his yard aback, Out upon the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Valediction John Masefield	The crowd's at the capstan and the tune's in the shout, "A long pull, a strong pull, and warp the hooker...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Wanderer's Song John Masefield	The songs at the capstan at the hooker warping out, And then the heart of me'll know I'm there or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
ABSTRACTION JP.	But wind up a capstan for a sail to catch wind Wound round a wound bandage all blood to rescind All this common usage...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An All-Night Sea Fight William Topaz McGonagall	"Lash her bowsprit to our capstan, she's our prize"; And he seized some ropes to lash round his foe, But a musket ball pierced...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Biography John Masefield	Long days at winch or capstan, heaving, pawling; The days with oxen, dragging stone from blasting, And dusty days in mills,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How to Accompany The Moon Without Walking Conrad Potter Aiken	harbor, the old wharf moon, the capstan moon, and round it the capstan bars, the heeling tune, India Wharf, we'll bring you to Rio...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pasha Bailey Ben William Schwenck Gilbert	And candlesticks, and potted quails, And capstan-bars, and scales and weights, And ornaments for empty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Roll Along Home! Cicely Fox Smith	The pilot's aboard and the capstan is manned, Blue Peter's a-waving farewell to the land, For after long waiting our orders have...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sailor's Yarn, A James Jeffrey Roche	With the wind a-lee and the capstan free To catch the summer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mystic Selvagee William Schwenck Gilbert	Who ever wielded...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Grey Squirrel Alfred Noyes	the capstan that stood beside the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rescue Edward George Dyson	By the capstan a woman is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rhyme Of The Three Captains Rudyard Kipling	I had nailed his ears to my capstan-head, and ripped them off with a saw, And soused them in the bilgewater, and served them to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Stranded Ship: (The “Vincennes”) Henry Lawson	worked at the jumping winch and the crew at the capstan...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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