Sailing Poems...

Here are poems of sailing and the sea.  If you know of a poem that should be here, let me know. Perhaps it is a classic or perhaps it is one which you have written.

Aboard at the Ship's Helm - Walt Whitman

Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe

A Sailor's Rescue - Mel Wade

The Beauty of the Storm - Andrew Shiston

Break, Break, Break - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Building of the Ship - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By the Sea -  Christina Rossetti

By the Sea - by William Wordsworth

Chesapeake Mornings - Chris Kleinfelter

Come Live With Me and Be My Love - Christopher Sousa

Crossing the Bar - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Double Life - Don Blanding

Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold

Dreamships - Charlotte Mair

Embrace the Music - Ed Zeiser

Halcyon Days - Ogden Nash

Home Thoughts, from the Sea - Robert Browning

How Do I Love Thee? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I Didn't Go to Church Today - Ogden Nash

If Thou Must Love Me - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Jumblies - Edward Lear

Les Silhouettes -  Oscar Wilde

Lighthouse Light - Hope

Meditations of a Voyage - Unknown

Mother Sea - Charlotte Mair

My Lost Youth - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On the Beach at Night Alone - Walt Whitman

Part Two: Nature LVII - Emily Dickinson

Neither Out far Nor in Deep - Robert Frost

O Captain! My Captain - Walt Whitman

O Listen to the Sounding Sea - George William Curtis

On The Memory of Mr. Edward King, Drown'd in the Irish Seas - John Cleveland

On the Sea - John Keats

Prayer for Safety at Sea - Alcaeus of Mytilene

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: In Seven Parts - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Safe Voyage - Margaret Traina

Sail away - Ritchie Blackmore and David Coverdale

Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats

Sailor of My Night - Charlotte Mair

Sea Lullaby -  Elinor Wylie

The Sailor's Consolation - by Charles Dibdin

The Sea - Lewis Carroll

The Sea and Me - Charlotte Mair

Sea Fever - John Masefield

The Sea Gypsy - Thomas Hovey

Sea Rose - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Seaweed - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ships - Ian Hunter

Signals At Sea - Annie Dillard

Solace of the Sea - Linda Carney

Song from the Ship - Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Song of the Open Road - Walt Whitman

Storm - Edmund Waller

The Tramps - Robert Service

The Winds of Fate - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Three Voices - Robert Service

Part Four: Time and Eternity CXXIX - Emily Dickinson

Part Four: Time and Eternity CXLI - Emily Dickinson

Upon the Late Storm - Edmund Waller

Weathered - Barb Ortiz 

We Have Lived and Loved Together - Charles Jefferys

The Wreck of the Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whispers to the Sea - Hope

Wild Nights - Emily Dickinson

The World Below the Brine - Walt Whitman

The World Is Too Much With Us; Late and Soon - William Wordsworth

Poetry... wasn't written to be analyzed;
it was meant to inspire without reason, 
to touch without understanding.
Nicholas Sparks