A consummate collection of swash-buckling poems about man's fascination with the sea. Pirates, mermaids, and shipwrecks abound - from "Davy Jone's Locker" to Shakespear's "Full Fathom Five". Noteworthy poets including Keates, Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson, in this timeless, pocket-sized volume of sea chanteys, ballads, hymns and prayers...alluding to man's everlasting respect and admiration of the sea.