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)

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