Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea,
exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and
longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids,
phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many
imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks,
of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvelous
collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to
Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies next to
Poe's beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding "The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" alongside the grandeur of
Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five." And here is Masefield's "I must
go down to the seas again" alongside Cavafy's "Ithaka" and
Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West." In the wide variety of
lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns
and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planet's restless
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