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Jul 24, 2026
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Aspiration
Blank Verse · Tragicomedy · Romance Play
Comradeship · Union · Hands / Hand in Hand
Death · Silence · Bells
Disillusionment · First World War · Italy
Fog and Smoke
Ghosts · Ghost · Death and Love
Greek Mythology · Lust / Sexual Desire · Desire
Journey · Ship
Night Journey / Vision · Katabasis / Descent · Quest Hero
Poet as Prophet · Prophet · Romantic Movement (Sensibility)
Sea · Water
Ship · Endurance
Stars · Night · Military Camp
Unrequited / Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Wonder and Gratitude · Sublime · Storm
To Dr. and Mrs. Field, 1884?
To Mrs. Todd
To “H. H.”
To Mr. Theodore Holland, 1885
To Mrs. Henry Hills, January, 1883
To Mr. C. H. Clark
To Mrs. Todd, September, 1885
To Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Tuckerman, the Misses——, Mr. Clark, and Mrs. Currier
To Mrs. Todd, March 21, 1885
To Mr. C. H. Clark, April 15, 1886
To “H. H.”
To Mrs. F.S. Cooper
To Mrs. Henry Hills
To the Rev. F. F. Emerson
To Mr. C. H. Clark, April 5, 1886
To Mrs. Currier, April 10, 1886
To the Misses, March, 1886
To Mrs. F.S. Cooper
To Mrs. Edward Tuckerman, August, 1878
To Mrs. Joseph Sweetser, Autumn, 1879?
To Mr. C. H. Clark
To Miss Maria Whitney
1727. If ever the lid gets off my head
To the Misses, 1880
To Mr. Theodore Holland
To the Misses, 1881
To Mrs. Edward Tuckerman, January, 1884
A Descent Into the Maelstrom
A Font of Type
A LOVER’S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS
A Paumanok Picture
A Promise to California
A Riddle Song
A Song of Joys
A Word
Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
After the Sea-Ship
Agnes Grey
American Notes
AN INVOCATION
Annabel Lee
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
ON the DISASTROUS SPREAD of AESTHETICISM in ALL CLASSES
As Consequent, Etc.
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
Assurances
(At Graduation 1905)
The Ball and the Cross
Behold This Swarthy Face
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
Cat Morgan Introduces Himself
CATULLIAN HENDECASYLLABLES
City of Ships
CONSTANCY TO AN IDEAL OBJECT
Danger! and Other Stories
Dans le Restaurant
David Copperfield
Defence of the Islands
DURA NAVIS
Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Facing West from California’s Shores
FANCIES AT NAVESINK
FANCY IN NUBIBUS OR THE POET IN THE CLOUDS
Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
First and Last
FIRST DRAFTS, EARLY VERSIONS, ETC.
FRAGMENTS
FRAGMENTS FROM A NOTEBOOK
From Montauk Point
Growltiger’s Last Stand
Hills and the Sea
HYMN TO THE EARTH
In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
IV. Death by Water
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
Variations of an Air
Leaves of Grass
Lepanto
LINES COMPOSED IN A CONCERT-ROOM
Lines to Fanny
LINES: WRITTEN AT SHURTON BARS, NEAR BRIDGEWATER, SEPTEMBER 1795, IN ANSWER TO A LETTER FROM BRISTOL
Lord Kitchener
M, N, O
Mannahatta
Marina
MILESISCHES MÄHRCHEN
Miracles
Mr. Apollinax
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
Now Finale to the Shore
The Song of the Oak
OCCASIONAL VERSES
Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
Old Salt Kossabone
On
ON REVISITING THE SEA-SHORE AFTER LONG ABSENCE, UNDER STRONG MEDICAL RECOMMENDATION NOT TO BATHE
On the Beach at Night
On the Beach at Night Alone
OSORIO
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
P, Q, R
Passage to India
Patroling Barnegat
Paumanok
PERICLES
Persuasion
Poems
Recorders Ages Hence
REFLECTIONS ON HAVING LEFT A PLACE OF RETIREMENT
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!
Salut au Monde!
SCHILLER: DER EPISCHE HEXAMETER
Silence
Song for All Seas, All Ships
Song of Myself
Song: ‘The moonflower opens to the moth’
Sonnet on a Picture of Leander
Sonnet on the Sea
Sonnet to a Lady Seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall
Sonnet to Ailsa Rock
Sonnet to Homer
Sonnet Written in Answer to a Sonnet Ending thus:
Sonnets and Verse
Staffa
STOLBERG
STOLBERG: HYMNE AN DIE ERDE.
Sussex
Sweeney Erect
Tears
That Music Always Round Me
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Balloon-Hoax
The City in the Sea
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
THE COMPLAINT OF NINATHÓMA:FROM THE SAME
The Cruise of the Nona
The Dead Emperor
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates
The Death of Saint Narcissus
THE DELINQUENT TRAVELLERS
The Dismantled Ship
The Dry Salvages 1941
The Fisherman and his Soul
The Flying Inn
The Great Shadow
The Green Flag and Other Stories
The Last Galley
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Maracot Deep
The Mystery
The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym (Raven Edition)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
THE RAVEN
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
The Ship Starting
THE SIGH
The Sleepers
THE TEMPEST
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
The World below the Brine
The Young King
This and That and the Other
Thought
The Great Shipwreck as Analogy
TO A LADY WITH FALCONER’S SHIPWRECK
TO CAPTAIN FINDLAY
TO CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE
To F--
To Helen
TO MY BROTHER GEORGE
To One in Paradise
TO SOME LADIES
To the Man-of-War-Bird
TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED ON THE NIGHT AFTER HIS RECITATION OF A POEM ON THE GROWTH OF AN INDIVIDUAL MIND
To Frances
The Trees of Pride
True Conquerors
TWELFTH NIGHT
Twelve Types
Twenty Years
Uncle Bernac
Verses and Sonnets
VI Although I do not hope to turn again
Villette
What Ship Puzzled at Sea
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours