Poems. Prologue; The Author To Her Book; Before the Birth of One of Her Children; In Reference to Her Children; To My Dear and Loving Husband; To Her Father with Some Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest - a Carol Frost was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts. She studied at the Sorbonne and earned degrees from the State University of Oneonta and Syracuse University. How do you find the message in the poem fifteen by William stafford? Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Fifteen men on the Dead