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Billy Collins. From the podium simply a fine tuned riot. Douglas Blair	upstream in a wooden boat, sliding the oars under the water then raising them to drip in the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Life Boat Mara Vasquez	No paddles or oars to navigate me This thick black liquid threatens to sink me Sweat trickles down my...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
One Present Kurt Philip Behm	boat with many oars One gallery with many arts, one ending with many...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Out at sea Brian Z. Jackson	Now mastless and limping I man one of the oars As the men and I row and refuse to exhaust Now with shore in sight, we begin to rejoice ...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
puny dragon boats were raing Severino Rengel Enopena	Cadence of muffled drums set their oars in...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot	Elizabeth and Leicester Beating oars The stern was formed A gilded shell Red and gold The brisk swell Rippled both shores...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
My Mother Told Me (Viking) Daxten Chase	Someday I would buy Galleys with good oars Sails to distant shores Stand up on the prow Noble barque I steer Steady course to...	Rate it (4.43 / 7 votes)
Ode To The Husky Clipper Kurt Philip Behm	one run Up the Hudson With new oars Pulling deep From...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
A Bird Came Down Emily Dickinson	And rowed him softer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Canadian Boat Song. Thomas Moore	Our voices keep tune and our oars keep...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Country Pathway James Whitcomb Riley	Or wildly oars the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Death At Sea Francis William Lauderdale Adams	Our lanterns feebly glow; Our oars drop and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Death At Sea. (Coral Sea, Australia.) Francis William Lauderdale Adams	Our lanterns feebly glow; Our oars drop and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Departure Rudyard Kipling	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Grave Marianne Moore	row quickly away -- the blades of the oars moving together like the feet of water-spiders as if there were no such thing as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lamentation Algernon Charles Swinburne	And with straining of oars I have grazed in the race the goals, In the storm the shores; As a greave is cleft with an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A legendary traveller Ravi Panamanna	a tale of two hearts - waters and his splashing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Little Bit Of Blue R C Lehmann	And it's bitterness and sorrow till the work of oars is done; But it's high delight and triumph when your faults are all abolished, With yourself...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Mid-Day Dreamer James Weldon Johnson	My craft is built of ivory, With silver oars, The sails are spun of golden threads, And priceless stores Of precious gems adorn its prow,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Word Gilbert Keith Chesterton	sand and shell, The boat-hook's clash, the boas-oars' jar, the cries to buy and sell, The flapping of the landed shoals, the canvas crackling free,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abbey Assaroe William Allingham	sturdy clank of oars Brings in the salmon-boat to haul a net upon the shores; And this way to his home-creek,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Accounts, Monies And Religions Wallace Dean LaBenne	Waters and maritimes account for many...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adieu to Belshanny William Allingham	Cast off, cast off - she feels the oars, and to her berth she sweeps; Now fore and aft keep hauling, and gathering up the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aechdeacon Barbour John Greenleaf Whittier	The steamboat's signal, and the dip of oars: Slowly the curtain rose from off a land Fair as God's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ah! Where Are Hours Departed Fled? (excerpt) Walther von der Vogelweide	That pass'd me as the dashing oars The surface of the ocean raise, Ceaseless my heart its fate deplores;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)