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A Chantey of Labor's Lost Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	the Horn Ten times in ships o' sail, Close-reefed an' fast in the bellerin' blast Of the mother-in-law of a gale. Bare-decked I been, an' wrecked I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song Of Winds Roderic Quinn	ng, And anxious faces, and fateful news; Of close-reefed topsails, and battened hatches, And straining engines and racing screws; Of pumice-stone and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Tryst Celia Thaxter	With fluttering canvas reefed at every spar, And weird fire in her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Foreshadowings Henry Kendall	day-break, listening for our native land! Close-reefed topsails shuddering over, straining down the groaning mast; For a tempest cleaves the darkness,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nightfall in Dordrecht Eugene Field	”...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poetic Sketches. Sketch Fourth Letitia Elizabeth Landon	The shore was reefed with rocks, whose rugged sides Were venturous footing for the fowler's step: They were...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pirates in England Rudyard Kipling	set free-- The pirate ships with their close-reefed sails, Leaping from sea to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sandpiper Celia Thaxter	Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, One little sandpiper and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Water Henry Lawson	every quarter: They want the land,—the gold-reefed sand, And now they’ll want the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wreck of the Schooner Samuel Crawford William Topaz McGonagall	Still the brave crew reefed the spanker and all the sails, While not one amongst them with fear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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