Maritime poems for your pocket

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Celebrate!

Poem in Your Pocket Day occurs every April as part of National Poetry Month--join us in celebrating by selecting a maritime poem to carry around with you. Print it out and carry it in your pocket, or save it to your portable device, and share it with others, take it out and read it during the day, work on learning it by heart to carry around with you in your thoughts! The links below will take you to poems specially formatted for Poem in Your Pocket Day, as well as shorter maritime poems suitable for printing or saving:

 

• Full Fathom Five My Novel Lies by A. Poppet-Turning (a parody of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five," from the Full Fathom Five blog)
  
• Oread by H.D. (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, Academy of American Poets' Poem in Your Pocket Day)
• Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats (Adobe Acrobat .pdf, Academy of American Poets' Poem in Your Pocket Day)
  
• Sea Fever by John Masefield (at the National Poetry Foundation, from Collected Poems)
  
• Sea Rose by H.D. (an SF Maritime NHP Poem for Your Pocket, from Sea Garden)
• Stack Fever by A. Poppet-Turning (a parody of "Sea Fever," from the Maritime Compass blog)
• A Wanderer's Song by John Masefield, text and audio
  

 

Learn more:

• Moods of the sea: masterworks of sea poetry (Anthology from the Naval Institute Press)
• Oxford book of the sea (Anthology of poetry and prose from the Oxford University Press)
• Poems of the Sea (Anthology in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series published by Knopf)
  
• Explore more language and literature in SF Maritime Collections