Comments | anteros_lmc: The Sailor and the Ghost

anteros_lmc

The Sailor and the Ghost

Oct 31, 2014 00:23

A little ballad for Halloween, from the Royal Museums Greenwich, dating from 1805.

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naval, illustrations, history, age of sail, nonsense

Comments 5

eglantine_br October 31 2014, 11:57:58 UTC

I suppose another moral could be, if you are going to impregnate young maidens, do it serially, not simultaneous!

anteros_lmc November 1 2014, 11:43:04 UTC

Ever it was thus!

nodbear November 1 2014, 17:27:22 UTC

the ghost in the ballad sheet looks rather too substantial for a spirit !

anteros_lmc November 1 2014, 23:34:56 UTC

She looks distinctly corporeal doesn't she?!

nodbear November 2 2014, 09:36:07 UTC

corporeal -such a wonderful 19th century sound to it don't you think

and incorporeal even more so somehow !

a cloudy moon over a Glasgow street
or fog on the moors or something !