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.

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

A seathemed collection of 28 poems captures the beauty, drama, and mystery of the ocean and the seashore, from starfish and seagulls to mermaids and monsters. By the author of The Iron Giant.

Images of sleep and the ocean combine in an enchanting book of lullabies and poems that sing of the sea, water, boats, and sea creatures, providing a soothing bedtime story for young children.

A collection of poems about the seashore by such authors as Ashley Bryan, Wes Magee, Judith Nicholls, and Richard Edwards

A whimsically illustrated collection of sea poems captures the ocean's many moods and treasures and features the works of such popular writers as Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Ted Hughes, and Jack Prelutsky.

Poems feature kites, sea shells, a day at the beach, sand, seagulls, and more

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 describing the activities of a group of children at the seashore and illustrated with pictures that can be moved to reveal a new scene.

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

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

Product Description: English should have written so little poetry, of a ibout the sea and its sailors until omiparay recent times. It might he said that until tin ml of the eighteenth century our poets hardly saw theb of the tea, though they felt its terror...read more