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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ONCE IN A WAY, by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM First Line: On a ship's poop I'd like to lie, if I could have my way Last Line: Who always find myself at home in simple company. | |||
ON a ship's poop I'd like to lie, if I could have my way, With over it the weather-cloths, thumped loudly by the spray; A sputtering fire between two stones, edging it like a mound, A pot perched on them, boiling brisk, with bubbling empty sound; An unwashed cabin-boy to serve; for table I would make Use of some handy plank; maybe a game of give and take With sailors gossiping around . . . Lately this chanced to me, Who always find myself at home in simple company. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOONTIDE REST by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM THE OLD FERRYMAN by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM PINE-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING by RUPERT BROOKE STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1720 by JONATHAN SWIFT THE EAGLE; A FRAGMENT by ALFRED TENNYSON BEHIND THE LINE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN EXTRACTS FROM VERSES WRITTEN FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1823 by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD SONNET by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) BALLADE OF FANCY FAIR by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS |
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