A list of the classic and current poets whose work can be found in our anthology of sea-themed poetry, You Can Hear the Ocean.
Classic Poets
Dante Alighieri
The Sailing of Ulysses
Joseph Auslander
I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
To Sea, to Sea!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Sea-Side Walk
The Sea-Mew
George Shepard Burleigh
An Ocean Sunrise
Lord Byron
The Ocean
Bliss Carman
A Son of the Sea
Stephen Crane
The Ocean Said to Me Once
H. D.
Sea Iris
Emily Dickinson
I Started Early—Took My Dog—
I Think that the Root of the Wind Is Water—
Exultation Is the Going
A. E.
The Voice of the Sea
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seashore
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Rock and the Sea
Arthur Guiterman
A Sea Dream
Thomas Hardy
The Convergence of the Twain
Sadakichi Hartmann
Drifting Flowers of the Sea
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ocean
Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
Dusk at Sea
Rudyard Kipling
Seal Lullaby
D. H. Lawrence
The Mystic Blue
Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Sea-Shell Murmurs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Seaweed
John Masefield
Sea Fever
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Exiled
Low-Tide
Marianne Moore
A Jelly-Fish
A Talisman
Thomas Moore
The Fire Worshippers
Eva L. Ogden
The Sea
John Boyle O’Reilly
The Flying Dutchman
Ezra Pound
The Sea of Glass
Rainer Maria Rilke
Song of the Sea
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Sea-Limits
Alan Seeger
On the Cliffs, Newport
William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXIV
John Sterling
The Two Oceans
Wallace Stevens
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Visit from the Sea
Sara Teasdale
Sea Longing
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
On a Desert Island
Walt Whitman
Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd
Oscar Wilde
Impression du Voyage
William Wordsworth
The Sea Shell
William Butler Yeats
The White Birds
Current Poets
Joel Allegretti
Gabriel the Beachcomber
The Sea at Our Door
Carol Alena Aronoff
The Muse
Janet Barry
wrack line
Sidney Bending
Dead Zones, Dying Zones
Ben Bever
Sea-glass
Jenny Blackford
The Way the Water
Eloise Bruce
Having Uncles Named Homer
R. T. Castleberry
The Mission of Water
Bill Cushing
Sailing
Elizabeth Ruth Deyro
Let the Oceans Speak for Me
Lauren Davis
Land Not Required
Agnieszka Filipek
Mermaid
Marj Hahne
Hold Fast
David Holper
To Pewetole Island
Gene Hult
Sea Stack
Seizure
Clarissa Jakobsons
California Ohms
Marjorie Maddox
Sea Side Be
Paul Magrs
Across the Ocean
Lucinda Marshall
Ebb Tide
Stephen McGuinness
Parallel
Leah Mueller
At the Memorial
Ciarán Parkes
Kelp
Winston Plowes
Orcadian
Suzanne S. Rancourt
The Shores of Methana
Meg Smith
Seafoam Witch
Alec Solomita
Another Poem about the Sea
Familiar
Alison Stone
The Sea
Larry D. Thacker
Fisherman’s Runes
Lynne Viti
Lament
The anthology also features an About the Authors section, with biographies of all included poets, and a Reading Guide, with questions and discussion prompts for teachers and book clubs.
