Read full poem →I left the lads and lasses, the labour and the tillage;
To plough the briny ocean, which soon became my joy--
I sat and sang among the shrouds, a lonely sailor-boy.
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Poetry examples for “briny”
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Read full poem →Or stratagem, did of their prey beguile,
We cleave the briny element, to meet
Dodona, sacred to our Jove, the fleet.
Read full poem →No more in briny show'rs, ye friends around,
Or bathe his clay, or waste them on the ground:
Read full poem →Attempt not, muse, the too advent'rous strain.
No more in briny show'rs, ye friends around,
Or bathe his clay, or waste them on the ground:
Read full poem →For bits o' bread;
An' down the briny pearls rowe
For Mailie dead.
Read full poem →Then with his coat he made essay
To wipe those briny tears away.
I follow’d him, and said, “My friend
Read full poem →The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the
briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhythm,
Read full poem →Then with his coat he made essay
To wipe those briny tears away.
I follow’d him, and said, “My friend