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Another Fish Story Steve Cochrane	"You did that on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Being Sheriff Suleman	That weighed me down to porpoise Slowed me down like Tortoise And in them I got high but stagnant Swimming in the pool of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Her Heavy Hearts Barbara Wittner	To dull blue eyes black And swim on a practiced porpoise, only breaking the surface with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Horror Poetry Set #018 Phil Roberts	The Blue Man Wailing Like an injured porpoise, Luring lonely...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sailing Ships Victoria Sackville-West	Of oily days at sea, when only rose The porpoise's slow wheel to break the sheen Of satin water indolently green, When for'ard the crew,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song of the Zetland Fisherman Sir Walter Scott	We must dance on the waves, with the porpoise and seal The breeze it shall pipe, so it pipe not too high, And the gull be our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet 37 - Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XXXVII Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XXXVII: Pardon, Oh, Pardon Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the temple...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Texas Time In A Texas Town Warner Baxter	Saw a mermaid in the gulf or maybe a porpoise What a time at South Padre during Spring...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE BLUE MAN Phil Roberts	The Blue Man Wailing Like an injured porpoise, Luring lonely...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ghost Richard Harris Barham	Sleeping perhaps serenely as a porpoise, Nor dreaming of this fiendish Habeas...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lobster-Quadrille Lewis Carroll	' said a whiting to a snail, 'There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pobble Who Has No Toes Edward Lear	The shore of the Bristol Channel, A sea-green porpoise carried away His wrapper of scarlet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sea Barry Cornwall	And the whale it whistled, the porpoise roll’d, And the dolphins bared their backs of gold; And never was heard such an outcry...	Rate it (3.00 / 1 vote)
Whales Weep Not! David Herbert Lawrence	is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Xxxvii Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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