(15 December 1883 – 8 August 1960 / Youngstown, Ohio)

poet Harry Kemp

Poems of Harry Kemp

21. Shanghaied 4/15/2010
22. Ship's Glamour 4/15/2010
23. The Beach Comber 4/15/2010
24. The Chantey Of The Cook (dithyramb of a discontented crew) 4/15/2010
25. The Doldrums (A Still-Life Picture) 4/15/2010
26. The Endless Lure 4/15/2010
27. The Fog 4/15/2010
28. The Girl That Married Another Man 4/15/2010
29. The Hummingbird 4/24/2012
30. The Remedy 4/15/2010
31. The Shipwrecked Sailor 4/15/2010
32. The Wreck 4/15/2010
33. Then 4/15/2010
34. There's Nothing Like A Ship At Sea 4/15/2010
35. When Ham And Sham And Japhet: A Sailor's Song 4/15/2010
36. Wind-Jammer's Song (1845 Clipper Days) 4/15/2010

A Whaler's Confession

Three long years a-sailing, three long years a-whaling,
Kicking through the ice floes, caught in calm or gale,
Lost in flat Sargasso seas, cursing at the prickly heat,
Going months without a sight of another sail.

I've learned to hate the Mate, and I've always cursed the Captain.
I hate the bally Bo'sun, and all the bally crew, -
And, sometimes, in the night-watch, the long and starry night-watch,
Queer thoughts have run wild in my head - I've even hated you!

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