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Title Author Year
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
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
The Drum Room Fred Marchant 2009
Bulb Planting Time Edgar Guest 1922
Epigrams: On my First Son Ben Jonson 1616
To Her Father with Some Verses Anne Bradstreet 1678
Father Edgar Guest 1919
A Toast to the Men Edgar Guest 1909
On Quitting Edgar Guest 1912
Thanksgiving Edgar Guest 1917
Only a Dad Edgar Guest 1916

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