Songs of Sea and Sail

SONGS OF
SEA AND SAIL

THOMAS FLEMING DAY

NEW YORK AND LONDON
THE RUDDER PUBLISHING COMPANY
1898

Copyright 1898

By Thomas Fleming Day

All Rights Reserved

Press Of
Thomson & Co.
New York

TO
THOSE WHO LOVE
THE SEA
AND ITS SHIPS.

CONTENTS.

  1. PAGE
  2. The Mermaid's Song [9]
  3. Trafalgar [13]
  4. When [18]
  5. The Forsaken Port [19]
  6. An Early Moonset [24]
  7. On the Bridge [25]
  8. Missing [30]
  9. Making Land [31]
  10. At Portsmouth [35]
  11. At Anchor [39]
  12. From the Cliff [40]
  13. Then and Now [42]
  14. The Ships [43]
  15. The Man-o'-War's Man's Yarn [49]
  16. A Foggy Morning [53]
  17. Unknown [55]
  18. The Coasters [57]
  19. To-Day [62]
  20. The Sailor of the Sail [63]
  21. The Yacht [68]
  22. The Trade Wind's Song [69]
  23. Execution Rock Light [71]
  24. The Cargo Boats [73]
  25. Noontide Calm [77]
  26. Old Buccaneer's Song [81]
  27. The Belfry of the Sea [85]
  28. Phantoms [95]
  29. Flotsam [98]
  30. The Lost Ship [99]
  31. The Main Sheet Song [101]
  32. The Landfall [103]
  33. The Clipper [104]
  34. The Constitution [105]
  35. The Tartar [107]
  36. Warning [110]
  37. In September [111]
  38. The Homeward Bounder's Song [113]
  39. The Spell of the Sea [115]
  40. Days of Oak [117]
  41. Long, Long Ago [119]
  42. Wind Happy Ships [122]
  43. The Quest [123]