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volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Burnt Ship by John Donne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 17th, 2010.

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...This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper ship told by the second mate. He looks up to Trunnell, the first mate, who somehow manages to hold things together between a murdering former captain, a captain who may not actually be a captain, and a crew inclined to mutiny...

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...Waking up on a strange ship, 21 year old Cordass Pell learns that he is on his way to serve a life sentence on the penal planet of Demerl. But before the transport arrives, the ship is hijacked by pirates and Pell and the other prisoners are sold a...

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...This is a story about the man who calls himself Shipwreck. He epitomizes the spirit of the poet Flavio Eborenze Didako Piro whose grave was dragged into the sea after the earthquake in the town of Herceg-Novi (Montenegro) in 1667.This historical event is rendered into a j...

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...Perhaps the sky above is nothing but a piece of sail left to us to be seen from a giant ship that sails beyond. To our eyes it stretches from one horizon boundary to another. If this is so, there isn’t enough sky. I’d love to ask for more. Or, perhaps, Shipwreck already told me more than I could know....

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...Young Nephi, with the help of his brothers, builds his ship: (Excerpt) And it came to pass that they did worship the Lord, and did go forth with me; and we did work timbers of curious workmanship. And the Lord did shew me from time to time, after what manner I should work the ...

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...s Variables Making the Game / Architecture Game Design Document To Sprint or to Waterfall? Sprint 1, Working Environment Sprint 2, Adding the Ship Sprint 3, Moving the Ship Sprint 4, Screen Lock the Ship Sprint 5, Add a Star Field Sprint 6, Shoot… Sprint 7, Thrust Sprint 8, a Challenger Appears Sprint 9, Target Practice Sprint 10, Polish the dust Sprint...

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...uction 4) Chapter-2 Historical background of the work of Khalifa 5) Chapter-3 Khalifa’s Hadiths 6) Chapter-4 Khalifa’s Claim Of Messenger-ship 7) Chapter-5 Crazy claim of Khalifa about the role of explaining Al-Quran 8) Chapter-6 The Final Messengership!? 9) Chapter-7 First Pillar of Islam 10) Cha...

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...r wickedness is come up before me -- 3. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD -- 4. But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in ...

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...rshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into ... ...at wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried ev... ...and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into th... ...he sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, a...

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...O Captain! My Captain! O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d 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!...

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...Contents Introduction LEAVES OF GRASS INSCRIPTIONS One's-Self I Sing As I Ponder'd in Silence In Cabin'd Ships at Sea To Foriegn Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidólons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginners To the States On Journeys through the States To a Certain Cantatrice Me Im...

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... taste’ ‘The white lilies, children of the Sun,’ Of Human Ambition On the Deceptive Brevity of Life ‘While yet in competing with your hair,’ ‘No ship, wrecked on some harsh reef,’ ‘Oh, bright honour of the liquid element,’ To Cordoba To The Quadalquivir Of a Lady Pricked by a Ring To A Girl, Now Become a Beautiful Lady To Memory: Of Death and Hell To A Grove of...

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...ations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients --...

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...ats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Chang... ... Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C. -- The monstrous ship built by Ptolemy IV, which was propelled by 4000 rowers -- The mag... ... Thalamegus -- The giant fleet which Hiero sent against Carthage -- An ancient ship that exceeded in size and splendor of any modern vessel 67-69 CHAP... ... come up out of the sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for which he suffers -- In pu... ...ying Dutchman -- The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectral ship -- Ghostly ships of extraordinary proportions -- A Monk who visite... ...e blessed -- The story that suggested Dante's Inferno -- Origin of the ghostly ship -- Real spectres of the sea -- Why the spectre ship was commanded ... ...dies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the younger Cabots -- Shipwreck and loss of the Cortereal Brothers -- Pinzon's adventures -- ... ...ief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite curiosity -- For what purpose had the King intended them? ... ...g -- Making good use of a soothsayer -- The King is invited on board da Gama's ship -- Swapping big stories -- Some presents that gained the King's fa...

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...w to put Jack to use, however: famous novelist and sometimes spy Ellis Graveworthy, who wants Jack to come with him to England and build him a flying ship. Graveworthy has been ordered to cross the heavily-guarded coast of Australia, the "Dead Isle" which has no Creation, and which sealed itself off from the outside world more than twenty years before. Rumors abound that A...

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...sland. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city....

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...an were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has be... ...nd laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city. The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock ha... ...oung man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and re- peated each direction of the pilot. The vague disquietude whi... ...roach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship’s bulwarks. The Count of Monte Cristo 4 He was a fine, tall, slim you... ...very particular. As for me, I must look after the anchoring, and dress the ship in mourning.” The owner did not wait for a second invitation. He seize... ...tivity that would have done credit to a sailor, climbed up the side of the ship, while the young man, going to his task, left the conversation to Dang... ...m, for the pleasure of going ashore, and nothing else.” “Dantes,” said the shipowner, turning towards the young man, “come this way!” “In a moment, si... ...‘Ah, yes,’ he said, ‘I know them. The Morrels have Alexandre Dumas 7 been shipowners from father to son; and there was a Morrel who served in the sam... ... packet and letter to Dantes.” “He did not speak to me of it,” replied the shipowner; “but if there be any letter he will give it to me.” Danglars ref...

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...Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to...

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...A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leggatt in his quarters. What is he thinking? Conrad will tell us. - The Secret Sharer was first publishe...

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...iscoverers of Chile Oh Earth, wait for me ‘And this word, this paper written’ Poor Creatures! The Stroke Lone Gentleman Ode to The Tomato To a Ship’s Figurehead (Elegy) The Tides The Bees (I) The People ‘At the centre of the Earth I’ll split apart’ Index of First Lines...