The sailor

a poem ; the authors description of his youth - tending sheep - favorite lamb - going to sea - death of his sweet-heart - the October gale in Yarmouth Roads - view of Westmoreland - Keswick Lake and Borrowdale - trial before Lord Kenyon - goes to sea again - many remarkable preservations - dreadful gale in Torbay - Bay of Biscay - taken prisoner - and after going through various scenes of life, returns safe to his friends who had not heard of him for seven years - describes Flambro' Head - Burlington Bay - Yorkshire Wolds - town and trade of Liverpool - the author's family with an elegy on his mother's death

by Edward Anderson