1. “The Seafarer”
2. “Beowulf”
3. William Shakespeare: The Tempest
4. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
5. Tobias George Smollett: The Adventures of Roderick Random
6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
7. Frederick Marryat: Mr. Midshipman Easy
8. Robert Michael Ballantyne: The Coral Island
9. Joseph Conrad: Youth
10. Joseph Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous
11. Sir Henry Newbolt: “Drakes Drum”
12. Lord Alfred Tennyson: “Break, Break, Break”/“Crossing the Bar”
13. Mathew Arnold: “Dover Beach”
14. John Masefield: “SeaFever”
15. John Millington Synge: Riders to the Sea
16. John Banville: The Sea
17. James Fennimore Cooper: The Pilot
18. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Seashore”
19. Edgar Allan Poe: “The City in the Sea”
20. Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast
21. Walt Whitman: “O Captain! My Captain!” and Others
22. Herman Melville: Moby Dick
23. Stephen Crane: “The Open Boat”
24. Mary Heaton Vorse: “The Wallow of the Sea”
25. Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
26. Rachel Louise Carson: The Sea Around Us
27. David Hays & Daniel Hays: My Old Man and the Sea