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Title Author Year
Upon Shark Robert Herrick 1823
Flying Fish: An Ode [excerpt] Charles Wharton Stork 1917
Untitled [There, by the crescent moon, the shark] Shido 1902
The Shark William Henry Venable 1909
The Sirens James Russell Lowell 1840
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
The Bluefish Isaac McLellan 1886
The Immanent God Cale Young Rice 1916
Summer [excerpt] James Thomson 1727
The Shark Isaac McLellan 1891
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
Bulb Planting Time Edgar Guest 1922
To Her Father with Some Verses Anne Bradstreet 1678
Father Edgar Guest 1919
A Toast to the Men Edgar Guest 1909

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