Poems by Harry Kemp
The Doldrums (A Still-Life Picture)
... The sails hang dead, or they lift and flap like a cornfield scarecrow's coat, ...
Sailormen
... And we'll kiss the prettiest girls, and we'll tell the children tales ...
Clipper Days (a song from Snug Harbor)
... on tier; You could hear their trampling thunder ...
Wind-Jammer's Song (1845 Clipper Days)
... "I've seen worse in my time, sir, - ...
The Shipwrecked Sailor
... And memories of a woman winged like white birds through his heart ...
The Endless Lure
... . . Well, I've heard that your "Old Man" needs a cook! ...
A Seaman's Confession Of Faith
... In the long, long night-watches I have thought ...
A Whaler's Confession
... And, sometimes, in the night-watch, the long and starry night-watch, ...
Jim
... Then, when the dawn came, wide, and grey, and pale, ...
Then
... And life's trumpet leaves my lips ...
Blind
... . . I heard a blind man groping, ...
The Shipwreck
... . . And when with dusk the great wind ceased to blow, ...
Kansas And London
... . . . But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way ...
The Girl That Married Another Man
... And each of them taught me what love means ...
The Wreck
... . . But, I have heard, at night this side-cast wreck ...
