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• The Coral Reef

  From “The Pelican Island”
  EVERY one,
  By instinct taught, performed its little task,— …

  James Montgomery

• “A wet sheet and a flowing sea”

  A Wet sheet and a flowing sea,—
  A wind that follows fast,
  And fills the white and rustling sail, …

  Allan Cunningham

• Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda

  Where the remote Bermudas ride
  In the ocean’s bosom unespied,
  From a small boat that rowed along …

  Andrew Marvell

• The Heaving of the Lead

  For England when with favoring gale
  Our gallant ship up channel steered,
  And, scudding under easy sail, …

  Charles Dibdin

• The Minute-Gun

  When in the storm on Albion’s coast,
  The night-watch guards his weary post,
  From thoughts of danger free, …

  R. S. Sharpe

• The Bay of Biscay

  Loud roared the dreadful thunder,
  The rain a deluge showers,
  The clouds were rent asunder …

  Andrew Cherry

• Tom Bowling

  Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling,
  The darling of our crew;
  No more he ’ll hear the tempest howling, …

  Charles Dibdin

• The White Squall

  The Sea was bright, and the bark rode well;
  The breeze bore the tone of the vesper bell;
  ’T was a gallant bark with a crew as brave …

  Bryan Waller Procter

• “Our boat to the waves”

  Our boat to the waves go free,
  By the bending tide, where the curled wave breaks,
  Like the track of the wind on the white snowflakes: …

  William Ellery Channing

• To Sea!

  To sea! to sea! the calm is o’er,
  The wanton water leaps in sport,
  And rattles down the pebbly shore, …

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

• The Storm

  Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer!
  List, ye landsmen, all to me,
  Messmates, hear a brother sailor …

  George Alexander Stevens

• The Wreck

  From “Don Juan,” Canto II.
  THEN rose from sea to sky the wild farewell—
  Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave,— …

  Lord Byron

• The Shipwreck

  IN vain the cords and axes were prepared,
  For now the audacious seas insult the yard;
  High o’er the ship they throw a horrid shade, …

  William Falconer

• The Rock and the Sea

  The Rock
  i AM the Rock, presumptuous Sea!
  I am set to encounter thee. …

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• The Shore

  From “Ariadne”
  HUNG like a rich pomegranate o’er the sea
  The ripened moon; along the trancèd sand …

  Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

• The Buoy-Bell

  How like the leper, with his own sad cry
  Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!
  That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals, …

  Charles Tennyson Turner

• Dover Beach

  The Sea is calm to-night.
  The tide is full, the moon lies fair
  Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light …

  Matthew Arnold

• The Sea Shell

  From “The Excursion,” Book IV.
  I HAVE seen
  A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract …

  William Wordsworth

• The Shell

  From “Gebir,” Book I.
  I AM not daunted, no; I will engage.
  But first, said she, what wager will you lay? …

  Walter Savage Landor

• Hampton Beach

  THE Sunlight glitters keen and bright,
  Where, miles away,
  Lies stretching to my dazzled sight …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

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