You Can Hear the Ocean

Since the dawn of language, poets have celebrated the majestic immensity of Earth’s oceans, the powerful waters that create and destroy, the intense drama and soothing gentleness of waves, the dangerous voyages to distant shores, and the indelible sensory memories set on shifting sandy beaches drenched in sunshine.

This collection joins the verse of renowned poets with the voices of select modern writers, all inspired by the ceaseless splendor of the sea.

Includes a reading guide for teachers and book groups, and biographies of the poets inside.

Classic 

Dante Alighieri


Joseph Auslander


Thomas Lovell Beddoes


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


George Shepard Burleigh


Lord Byron


Bliss Carman


Stephen Crane


H. D.


Emily Dickinson


A. E.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Arthur Guiterman


Thomas Hardy


Sadakichi Hartmann


Nathaniel Hawthorne


Rudyard Kipling


Thomas S. Jones, Jr.


D. H. Lawrence


Eugene Lee-Hamilton


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


John Masefield


Edna St. Vincent Millay


Marianne Moore


Thomas Moore


John Boyle O’Reilly


Eva L. Ogden


Ezra Pound


Rainer Maria Rilke


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Alan Seeger


William Shakespeare


John Sterling


Wallace Stevens


Robert Louis Stevenson


Sara Teasdale


Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Walt Whitman


Oscar Wilde


William Wordsworth


William Butler Yeats

Current

Joel Allegretti


Carol Alena Aronoff


Janet Barry


Sidney Bending


Ben Bever


Jenny Blackford


Eloise Bruce


R. T. Castleberry


Bill Cushing


Lauren Davis


Elizabeth Ruth Deyro


Agnieszka Filipek


Marj Hahne


David Holper


Gene Hult


Clarissa Jakobsons


Marjorie Maddox


Paul Magrs


Lucinda Marshall


Stephen McGuinness


Leah Mueller


Ciarán Parkes


Winston Plowes


Suzanne S. Rancourt


Meg Smith


Alec Solomita


Alison Ston...