Poems of the Sea

The ocean as the great theme of poetry — voyages, storms, drowned sailors, and the pull of the tide, from Coleridge to Masefield.

Verse with salt in it

In this collection

• The Sailor's Farewell
• The Captain of the "Polestar"
• To England: To Strike Quickly
• Elegy and Classical Metre
• The Legend Of The Bell Rock
• Prospects of Monarchy or Democracy
• Kean, Mackintosh, and Davy
• Methods of Investigation
• The Auld Fisher
• The Eucharist
• City of Ships
• Scale of Animal Being
• In Port To-Day
• Manhattan Faces
• The Mermaids
• An American Angler in Australia
• To Nature
• The Golden Vanity
• Two Fights with Swordfish
• Taxation and Representation
• The Rhyme of the Three Sealers
• Wonders
• Naval Discipline
• Genius and Critics
• Ocean Wonders
• Lines to an Old Sweetheart
• Farewell Song to the Banks of Ayr
• The Skeleton in Armor
• The Wreck of the Hesperus
• The Witnesses
• The Building of the Ship
• Seaweed
• Chrysaor
• The Secret of the Sea
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert
• The Lighthouse
• The Phantom Ship
• The Discoverer of the North Cape
• The Cumberland
• The Sound of the Sea
• A Summer Day by the Sea
• The Tides
• The Broken Oar
• A Dutch Picture
• A Ballad of the French Fleet
• With Favoring Winds, o'Er Sunlit Seas
• Elegiac
• The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
• The City and the Sea
• O Faithful, Indefatigable Tides
• King Christian
• The Bird and the Ship
• Beowulf's Expedition to Heort
• Sleep at Sea
• Jessie Cameron
• Oh what Comes over the Sea
• By the Sea
• A Fisher-Wife
• The Billows on the Beach are Leaping Around It
• A Vision of the Sea
• Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
• Homer's Hymn to Castor and Pollux
• When Winds that Move not its Calm Surface Sweep
• Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
• Hervé Riel
• The Shepherd and the Sea

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