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Title Author Year
After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra" Robert Louis Stevenson 1890
Summer [excerpt] James Thomson 1727
The Shark Lord Alfred Douglas 1897
The Shark Isaac McLellan 1891
Upon Shark Robert Herrick 1823
Untitled [There, by the crescent moon, the shark] Shido 1902
The Shark William Henry Venable 1909
The Sirens James Russell Lowell 1840
The Ripple Effect Jamey Dunham 2009
Seal Lullaby Rudyard Kipling 1894
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901
Haunted Seas Cale Young Rice 1921
Submarine Mountains Cale Young Rice 1921
Flying Fish: An Ode [excerpt] Charles Wharton Stork 1917
The Bluefish Isaac McLellan 1886
The Immanent God Cale Young Rice 1916
In a Breath Carl Sandburg 1916
World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 1891
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? Robert Graves 1918
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888

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