The New England Pirate Museum

Pirate Poetry

POEMS OF PIRATES AND THE SEA

WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS by Shel Silverstein. (Harper & Row, 1974).
- "Captain Hook", page 18
- "Pirate Captain Jim", page 144

A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC by Shel Silverstein. (Harper & Row, 1974).
- "The Pirate", page 49
- "Captain Blackbeard Did What?", page 104

A BOOK OF AMERICANS by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet. (Farrar and Rinehart, 1933).
- "Cotton Mather", page 23
- "Captain Kidd", page 25

ONE AT A TIME by David McCord. (Little, Brown and Company, 1977).
- "Song", page 119
- "Islands in Boston Harbor", pages 423-424

REMEMBERING AND OTHER POEMS by Myra Cohn Livingston. (Margaret K.McElderry, 1984).
- "The Necklace", page 18
- "School Play", page 36

ALL THE SMALL POEMS by Valerie Worth. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987).
- "Jewels", page15
- "Compass", page 94

PIPING DOWN THE VALLEYS WILD edited by Nancy Larrick. (Dell, 1982).
- "The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee" by Mildred Plews Meigs, pages 94-95
- "Sea-Fever" by John Maesfield, page185

BOOKS OF POEMS ABOUT THE SEA

THE SEA IS CALLING ME selected by Lee Bennett-Hopkins. (HBJ, 1986).

THE MERMAID AND OTHER SEA POEMS compiled by Sophie Windham. (Scholastic, 1996).

LAND, SEA, AND SKY selected by Catherine Paladino. (Little, Brown, 1993).

SEA WATCH by Jane Yolen. (Philomel, 1996).

SEA SONGS by Myra Cohn Livingston. (Holiday House, 1986).

I AM THE OCEAN by Suzanna Marshak. (Little, Brown, 1991).

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