Unit 6: Vocabulary from Readings

The skipper he stood beside the helm,
His pipe was in his mouth,
And he watched how the veering flaw did blow
The smoke now West, now South.

The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe,
And a scornful laugh laughed he.

The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe,
And a scornful laugh laughed he.

“Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!”

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.

See how he dives
From the rocks with a zoom!
See how he darts
Through his watery room

See how he swims
With a swerve and a twist,
A flip of the flipper,
A flick of the wrist!

Playing a grand piano now,
I wonder what I skim from the sea
Delicate enough to let air
between the strings rise
into the room, let music be
visible as whale breathing.

Playing a grand piano now,
I wonder what I skim from the sea
Delicate enough to let air
between the strings rise
into the room, let music be
visible as whale breathing.

spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things, while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there) and

without breaking anything.

Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple
Leaping like Leopards to the Sky
Then at the feet of the old Horizon
Laying her spotted Face to die

Stooping as low as the Otter’s Window
Touching the Roof and tinting the Barn
Kissing her Bonnet to the Meadow
And the Juggler of Day is gone

Nostalgic for plum,
I bow among white flowers
and the tears begin

There was an old man on the Border,
Who lived in the utmost disorder;
He danced with the cat,
and made tea in his hat,
Which vexed all the folks on the Border.

There was an old man on the Border,
Who lived in the utmost disorder;
He danced with the cat,
and made tea in his hat,
Which vexed all the folks on the Border.

There was an old man on the Border,
Who lived in the utmost disorder;
He danced with the cat,
and made tea in his hat,
Which vexed all the folks on the Border.