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Sea poem paths
A first shelf of sea poems before the full index.
Essential sea
Recognizable poems and authors from this collection.
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A Birthday
by Christina Rossetti
nature, love, death
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A Ballad upon a Wedding
by Sir John Suckling
nature, love, death
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A Birthday Song. To S. G.
by Sidney Lanier
nature, love, death
Sea and nature
Poems where sea overlaps with nature.
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A Farewell
by Coventry Patmore
nature, love, hope
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A Farewell to Agassiz
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
nature, love, death
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A Farewell to False Love
by Sir Walter Raleigh
nature, love, death
Sea and love
Poems where sea overlaps with love.
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A Hymn In Honour Of Beauty
by Edmund Spenser
nature, love, death
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A Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
by Edmund Spenser
nature, love, death
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117. Song—Farewell to Eliza
by Robert Burns
nature, love, death
Collection index
More sea poems
A first shelf from the sea collection. Open any title to read the poem page.
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"Arcturus" is his other name
by Emily Dickinson
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"De Gustibus--"
by Robert Browning
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"Home"
by Edward Thomas
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"Hope" is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinson
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"Nature" is what we see --
by Emily Dickinson
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'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight
by Emily Bronte
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'Twas a long Parting -- but the time
by Emily Dickinson
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101. Song—Composed in Spring
by Robert Burns
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117. Song—Farewell to Eliza
by Robert Burns
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123. Lines to an Old Sweetheart
by Robert Burns
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128. The Farewell
by Robert Burns
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130. Nature’s Law: A Poem
by Robert Burns
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136. Prayer—O Thou Dread Power
by Robert Burns
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137. Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr
by Robert Burns
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144. A Winter Night
by Robert Burns
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177. Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
by Robert Burns
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185. The Humble Petition of Bruar Water
by Robert Burns
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193. On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit
by Robert Burns
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201. Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787
by Robert Burns
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203. Sylvander to Clarinda
by Robert Burns
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204. Song—Love in the Guise of Friendship
by Robert Burns
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254. Caledonia: A Ballad
by Robert Burns
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264. Song—On a Bank of Flowers
by Robert Burns
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278. On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations
by Robert Burns
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293. The Whistle: A Ballad
by Robert Burns
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294. Song—To Mary in Heaven
by Robert Burns
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296. The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad
by Robert Burns
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306. Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790
by Robert Burns
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310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale
by Robert Burns
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324. Song—The Charms of Lovely Davies
by Robert Burns
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352. The Song of Death
by Robert Burns
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39. Ballad on the American War
by Robert Burns
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403. The Soldier’s Return: A Ballad
by Robert Burns
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447. Song—A red, red Rose
by Robert Burns
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494. Song—Farewell thou stream that winding flows
by Robert Burns
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540. Inscription to Chloris
by Robert Burns
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548. The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad
by Robert Burns
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56. Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet
by Robert Burns
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59. Death and Dr. Hornbook
by Robert Burns
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75. Halloween
by Robert Burns
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83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night
by Robert Burns
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87. The Twa Dogs
by Robert Burns
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88. The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer
by Robert Burns
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91. The Vision
by Robert Burns
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92. Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision”
by Robert Burns
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A Baby's Death
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A Ballad of Burdens
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A Ballad of Death
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A Ballad of Dreamland
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A Ballad upon a Wedding
by Sir John Suckling
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A Better Ressurection
by Christina Rossetti
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A Birthday
by Christina Rossetti
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A Birthday Song. To S. G.
by Sidney Lanier
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A Boston Ballad, 1854.
by Walt Whitman
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A Bridal Song
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A COUNTRY LIFE:TO HIS BROTHER, MR THOMAS HERRICK
by Robert Herrick
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A Calendar of Sonnets: April
by Helen Hunt Jackson
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A Calendar of Sonnets: June
by Helen Hunt Jackson
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A Child Asleep
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A Christmas Carol
by William Topaz McGonagall
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A DIVINE IMAGE
by William Blake
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A Day Dream
by Emily Bronte
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A Dead Rose
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay
by William Topaz McGonagall
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A Dialogue
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A Dirge
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A Dream Within A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
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A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree --
by Emily Dickinson
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A Face
by Robert Browning
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A Farewell
by Coventry Patmore
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A Farewell
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
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A Farewell to Agassiz
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A Farewell to False Love
by Sir Walter Raleigh
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A Flower-Piece By Fantin
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A Fragment
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E.
by Phillis Wheatley
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A Grammarian's Funeral : Shortly After the Revival of Learning in Europe
by Robert Browning
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A Hymn In Honour Of Beauty
by Edmund Spenser
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A Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
by Edmund Spenser
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A Hymn To God The Father
by John Donne
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