Bound in a beautifully jacketed hardcover that’s as timeless as the tide, Poems of the Sea gathers centuries of oceanic verse into one sweeping volume. This anthology is a deep dive into poetry’s most enduring muse: the sea—eternal, mysterious, and wild.
Across cultures and through the ages, poets have felt the ancient pull of water—its beauty, terror, and infinite metaphor. Within these pages, pirates and mermaids, shipwrecks and seafoam, icebergs and Atlantis rise from the depths, mingling with the steady glow of lighthouses and the sorrow of things left behind.
You’ll find Homer’s epic swell beside the haunting hush of Plath. Tennyson’s seductive sea-fairies drift near Poe’s mournful Annabel Lee. Coleridge’s cursed mariner sails past Shakespeare’s Full Fathom Five, while Masefield calls us back to the sea once more—and Cavafy’s Ithaka reminds us why we ever left the shore.
With sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads, hymns, and whispered prayers, this collection is both voyage and vessel—perfect for lovers of poetry, dreamers of distant coasts, and anyone who’s ever listened to a shell and heard a story.
Elegantly produced by Everyman’s Library with acid-free cream paper, cloth binding, foil stamping, ribbon marker, and illustrated jacket, it’s a keepsake made for drifting off with by lamplight or tossing in your seaside satchel. Let the waves carry you—page by page.
