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A Song Of Winds Roderic Quinn	Of close-reefed topsails, and battened hatches, And straining engines and racing screws; Of pumice-stone and brown...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Valediction John Masefield	Aloft and loose the topsails and some one give a rouse; A salt-Atlantic chanty shall be music to the dead, "A long pull,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Foreign Lands Henry Lawson	Glint of topsails over islands—splash of anchors in the sound; Then they landed in the forests, took their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Foreshadowings Henry Kendall	Close-reefed topsails shuddering over, straining down the groaning mast; For a tempest cleaves the darkness,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hornblower, Horatio Wayne Blair	Scampering to topsails, crow’s...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudson's Last Voyage Henry Van Dyke	Look, -- there she goes, -- her topsails in the sun Gleam from the ragged ocean edge, and drop Clean out of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
O, Falmouth Is a Fine Town William Ernest Henley	Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Roll Along Home! Cicely Fox Smith	Shake out the topsails and roll along...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rosario Cicely Fox Smith	With the north wind in her topsails, and the whole wide world before...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song of Diego Valdez Rudyard Kipling	The dawn-wind brought my topsails -- And men esteemed me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bagman's Dog: Mr. Peters's Story Richard Harris Barham	Of taffrails and topsails, and splicing main-braces, And 'Shiver my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bumboat Woman's Story William Schwenck Gilbert	Reef...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dutch in the Medway Rudyard Kipling	For, now De Ruyter's topsails, Off naked Chatham show, We dare not meet him with our fleet— And this the Dutchmen...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Noble Moringer Sir Walter Scott	A long adieu he bids to all - hoists topsails, and away, And wanders in Saint Thomas-land seven twelve-months and a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sea Gypsy Richard Hovey	There's a schooner in the offing, With her topsails shot with fire, And my heart has gone aboard her For the Islands of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The William P. Frye Jeanne Robert Foster	Like a white ghost with topsails bellying full; And all her noble lines from bow to stern Made music in the wind; it seemed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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