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A Paumanok Picture Walt Whitman	The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore, Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bashful Gleeson Edward George Dyson	Ben felt mighty at the windlass when she watched him hauling stuff, And she asked him many questions, ‘What was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cameron's Heart Henry Lawson	When Death at the windlass that morning took cruel advantage of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 04 Sa di	Thou canst not uproot it with a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eureka Henry Lawson	The clatter of the windlass-boles, as spinning round they go, And then the signal to his mate, the digger's cry,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Grace Darling William Topaz McGonagall	Around the windlass on the forecastle some dozen poor wretches clung, And with despair and grief their weakly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jenny Carrister, The Heroine of Lucknow-Mine William Topaz McGonagall	Then she asked the man at the windlass if he'd had any luck, But he picked up a piece of candle and then a match he struck; Then...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XXI: Your Words, My Friend Sir Philip Sidney	My young mind marr'd, whom Love doth windlass so, That mine own writings like bad servants show My wits, quick in vain thoughts, in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stop-And-See Edward George Dyson	My flaccid muscles seem to tweak To feel the windlass pall and strain, To shake the cradle by the creek, And puddle at the ‘tom’...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tantramar Revisited Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts	While, with men at the windlass, groaned each reel, and the net, Surging in ponderous lengths, uprose and coiled in its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Golden Age Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Oh, the old dry blower's out again, And the windlass, pan and pick: For hope, high hope, has come to men Where the miners muster...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Junk and the Dhow Rudyard Kipling	From Socotra to Selankhor of the windlass and the anchor, And the Navigators Compass in our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Kid Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	' When the Wild Cat, on 'is windlass, scratched 'is left ear contemplative An' remarked, 'I think I've gotter scheme to land the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Last Review Henry Lawson	drays with wash to puddle, clack of countless windlass boles, Here and there the red flag flying , flying over golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Man From Eldorado Robert William Service	He has panted at the windlass, he has loaded in the drift, He has pounded at the face of oozy clay; He has taxed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prospector Robert William Service	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Queen Of Yore William Henry Ogilvie	Where here and there some gray-beard keeps his windlass-watch to-day; Half-flood no more she looses her reins as once of old To wash the busy sluices...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Roaring Days Henry Lawson	The rattle of the cradle, The clack of windlass-boles, The flutter of the crimson flags Above the golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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