• O captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
    The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
    The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
    While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
        But O heart! heart! heart!
          O the bleeding drops of red,
            Where on the deck my Captain lies,...

  • The dew is on the heather,
      The moon is in the sky,
    And the captain’s waving feather
      Proclaims the hour is nigh
    When some upon their horses
      Shall through the battle ride,
    And some with bleeding corses
      Must on the heather bide.

    The dust is on the heather,
      The moon is in the sky,
    And about the captain’s...

  •   HE ’s gane, he ’s gane! he ’s frae us torn,
    The ae best fellow e’er was born!
    Thee, Matthew, Nature’s sel’ shall mourn
                    By wood and wild,
    Where, haply, pity strays forlorn,
                    Frae man exiled.

      Ye hills, near neebors o’ the starns,
    That proudly cock your cresting cairns!
    Ye cliffs, the haunts of...

  • O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
    The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
    The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
    While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
        But O heart! heart! heart!
          O the bleeding drops of red,
            Where on the deck my Captain lies,...

  • OF 1 all the ships upon the blue,
    No ship contained a better crew
    Than that of worthy Captain Reece,
    Commanding of The Mantelpiece.

    He was adored by all his men,
    For worthy Captain Reece, R. N.,
    Did all that lay within him to
    Promote the comfort of his crew.

    If ever they were dull or sad,
    Their captain danced to them...

  •           The gathering clouds around us lower,

                 The tempest wildly raves,

              But fearlessly our noble ship

                 The angry ocean braves,

              And buoyant as a sea-bird rides

                 The crested mountain waves.


              The gale, the storm, the night may come,...