Maritime related poetry & sea shanties archive file list. Contact us for more information (updated 2015)
1. Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach, reverse - Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - extract from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, reverse - Robert Louis Stevenson - Christmas at Sea
3. Felicia Dorothea Hemans - The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck (Casabianca), reverse - Alfred Lord Tennyson - Crossing the Bar
4. Jean Ingelow - High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire
5. Rudyard Kipling - Frankie's Trade
6. Henry Longfellow - extract from The Wreck of the Hesperus, reverse - John Masefield - Roadways
7. John Masefield - Sea Fever, reverse - Three Score and Ten Me Boys (traditional sea shanty)
8. Scarborough Town Crier Proclamations - 17th and 2x18th century versions, reverse - Scarboro' Sands
9. Opening Address - Theatre Royal 29th June 1860
10. The Ancient Mariner - a new ballad to be sung at the Scarborough elections, July 19th 1807
11. St. Hilda's Bells - a Whitby Legend; version by Mrs GM Tweddle
12. The Fishermen of England - extract from The Rebel Maid: Montague F Philips and Gerald Dawson
13. You Can't Sea Fairer than That
14. To the Scarborough Local Board (Humble petition of the Trees planted in Westborough and Pavillion Roads)
15. Appeal to King Neptune AEN, reverse - Three Score and Ten
16. A Scarborough Row in Verse - extract from A Harbour by Hawson Herbert (handwritten)
17. Scarborough in Verse - programme of joint event Scarborough Archaeological & History Society and Scarborough Poetry Workshop, 24th October 2005
18. Memorial Card by Jane, wife of Thomas Cowling, master of yawl Sarah, October 1880
19. Rime of the Three who cheated the sea (anglers); date unknown, reverse - Fisherman's 23rd Psalm
20. A Tribute to one of our Gallant Defenders (Herbert Vaughan) 1931 - 1939 by AG, reverse - The Sailor's Alphabet
21. Colin Challen - An autumn evening Nov 2010
22. Colin Challen - The Sea Anglers
23. Colin Challen - Coronia Impounded
24. Rachel J Jenkins - Our Heritage (two laminated copies), reverse - Terry White - A Winters's Pause
25. Ann Evans - Road to the Sea, reverse - Sylvie Hutton - Strength of the Sea (March 2013)
26. Kate Evans - Sea Creature (2009), reverse - The Gale at Sea - The Sea (2003)
27. Sherry Gail Helm (Florida) - Fisherman's Wife
29. Response to above - Annie - Untitled, reverse - "A ginger-haired sailor called Mark" (anon)
30. Handwritten poem by Brian C ex Hull fisherman: "Do not look out to sea and weep"
31. The Noble Fisherman, or Robin Hood's Preferment, Narrative verse re Robin Hood's alleged stint as a fisherman
32. The Gansey - Tony Morris Sept. 2008
33. Dialect poem submitted by Dennis Allen to Scarborough Bottom Enders Residents Then & Now, July 2012 (?)
34. Mary Nightingale - The RNLI; posted in Scarborough Bottom Enders Residents Then & Now, July 2012
35. Matthew Harman - The Daw and the Steeples: a sketch of Scarborough, taken on June 29th 1867; 33 pages, annotated
36. Self introduction - Tom (Thomas William) Ward
37. T W Ward - The Jackdaw's Return; based on The Daw and the Steeples; record (annotated) of changes between 1867 and 2008 to Scarborough 36 pages
38. Newspaper cutting SEN 16/3/2010 marking publication of poetry book by ex local fisherman Bob Jackson
39. A Little Book of Helpful Verse - The Song of the Sea: edited Flora Klickmann (undated)
The Song of the Sea - Lillian Gard
Turn us again - Anne Page
'Neath God's Great Sky - Doris Canham
Heralds of the Dawn - Elsie Barber
The City Dweller - Constance M Savage
A Prayer for Strength - MB Craig
Hast Thou a Cross? - Doris Canham
A Song of Sunshine - Hilary Brown
For Harvest Thanksgiving - Edith Leighton Smith
A Birthday Wish - Mary Hall Leonard
The Remaining Faith - Gertrude C Hopkins
Human Hearts - F Longbridge
The Garden of my Dreams - E E Trusted
Also Edwardian postcard addressed to Miss M Sheader on Sandside by her brother John: The Glory Song, from Alexander's New Revival Hymns.
40. Miscellany - unidentified poems, sayings and extracts (4 clear envelopes)