Product Description: A celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award–winner Ashley Bryan.The great African-American poet Langston Hughes penned poem after poem about the majesty of the sea, and the great African-American artist Ashley Bryan, who’s spent more than half his life on a small island, is as drawn to the sea as much as he draws the sea...read more

Product Description: Late in his life, Herman Melville published a volume of poetry called John Marr and Other Sailors. He produced the collection at his expense, and therefore only about 25 copies were printed. Existing copies can be found in libraries, but scholars have, for the most part, not seen them...read more

A discerning and entertaining anthology for all those fascinated by the sea, marking the 200th anniversary of the legendary Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death. The sea occupies four-fifths of the earth's surface and, from time immemorial, poets have turned and returned to the sea as a powerful theme or symbol. Blending well-known and unfamiliar, ancient and modern poetry, the anthology celebrates the sea's elemental, practical, and mythological significance to humankind.

A journey through the ocean in words and pictures starts at the tips of the foamy waves and dives down for a panoramic view from top to bottom and back again, looking at the life that can be found at each level.

Product Description: This exciting collection of sea poems is like no other. It brings together two separate maritime nations and cultures - the United States and Britain - through the works of many different poets on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean telling the colorful and awe-inspiring history of seafaring...read more

Provides an in-depth review of the incredible sailing vessels that have sailed the high seas throughout history, such as the Viking drakar, whaling ships, schooners, and more, along with a discussion of the various roles they played during their time.

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Eighteen traditional and contemporary poems, illustrated with photographs, bring to life events and sensations associated with the seashore

Product Description: This work covers a cycle of 18 sea poems. Ancient Jews feared the sea and people who came from the sea. Waters of the deep were dark and anarchic, and even God waded gingerly through the flood tides. There was no covenantal justice under sail, only stormy skies and beautiful nights and constant change...read more

Product Description: Meditative, conversational, or sometimes lyrical, this collection of poems is about landscapes and seascapes. The sense of the poetry of place is crystallized in the final poems of the volume that deal with the metaphors of travel.

A collection of verses about the sea from Byron, Shakespeare, Whitman, Yeats, and other British and American writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century

A collection of poems by a variety of authors about the ocean, the seashore, lighthouses, seashells, sandcastles, and other objects associated with the sea

The poetic images of an award-winning poet and the acrylic paintings of a Pulitzer Prize-winning painter combine to celebrate the many moods of the ever-changing sea

Poems by Milton, Keats, Longfellow, Melville, Hughes, Shelley, Byron, Whitman, and others, describe the characteristics, legends, and essence of the sea