Popular Poems About Mermaids

The plank creaks low, a shadow's hungry maw,
As Captain Lovebird, with a gilded claw,
Demands a verse, where heart and horror twine,
A love-sick ballad, steeped in rum and brine.

No gentle swain, with roses 'neath his arm,
But gnarled corsairs, where dark desires swarm.
One-eyed Jack, with teeth of tarnished gold,
And Peg-Leg Pete, whose tales are fiercely told. 
Their faces etched with storms and savage  nights,
Yet in their souls, a flickering love light ignites.

"Sing of the sea," they roar, with breath like...