There are 382 Poems about Seas, Rivers, Estuaries, Streams

"Any fool can get into an ocean..."
By Jack Spicer

‘The Opal Sea’
By Ella Higginson

A Barefoot Boy
By James Whitcomb Riley

A Boat
By Richard Brautigan

A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon
By Ron De Maris

A Channel Crossing
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Fine, a Private Place
By Diane Ackerman

A Forsaken Garden
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Good Fish
By Derek Sheffield

A Graveyard
By Marianne Moore

A Leak in the Dike
By Phoebe Cary

A Poem That Starts Out Wrong
By Landis Everson

A Request
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

A Song
By Helen Maria Williams

A Swimmer's Dream
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Thought of the Nile
By Leigh Hunt

Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Afton Water
By Robert Burns

Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo

All Wet
By Marie Ponsot

Alone, Drinking With the Tickfaw River
By Alison Pelegrin

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

An Afternoon at the Beach
By Edgar Bowers

An Ocean Musing
By Henrietta Cordelia Ray

And Soul
By Eavan Boland

Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe

Arrowhead
By Robert Pack

As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
By Walt Whitman

At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey

At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy

At Melville’s Tomb
By Hart Crane

At Popham Beach
By Thorpe Moeckel

At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop

Away above a Harborful ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“My Mother is a Fish”
By Peter Balakian

“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville

Beach Glass
By Amy Clampitt

Bermudas
By Andrew Marvell

Break, Break, Break
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Breakage
By Mary Oliver

Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Buckroe, After the Season, 1942
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Burning Island
By Gary Snyder

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Cape Cod
By George Santayana

Carmel Highlands
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Cock
By Albert Goldbarth

Color in American History: An Essay
By Tom Disch

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Conches on Christmas
By Mike Chasar

Concord Hymn
By Jack Spicer

Confluence
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons

Credo
By Robinson Jeffers

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman

Crossing the Atlantic
By Anne Sexton

Crossing the Bar
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Damselfly, Trout, Heron
By John Engels

Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
By Delmore Schwartz

Davy Jones' Door-Bell
By Vachel Lindsay

Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams

Don Juan: Canto the Second
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Down Stream
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal

Each and All
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Easy as Falling Down Stairs
By Dean Young

Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
By William Wordsworth

Encounter
By Thomas McGrath

from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Evolution
By Jorie Graham

Exegesis of the First Words Spoken (Ishmael)
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Farewell to Florida
By Wallace Stevens

Fishing
By A.E. Stallings

Five Visions of Captain Cook
By Kenneth Slessor

Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula
By Andrew Hudgins

Floating Houses
By David Wojahn

Floating Island
By Dorothy Wordsworth

Flood
By Jorie Graham

Flowers by the Sea
By William Carlos Williams

Fog Horns
By David Mason

Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 9: The Netherlands
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Lines to William Simson
By Robert Burns

From the Wave
By Thom Gunn

Full Fadom Fiue Thy Father Lies
By William Shakespeare

Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn

Glass-Bottom Boat
By Elizabeth Spires

Grace
By John Logan

Gulls
By Jorie Graham

Guysborough Road Church
By George Elliott Clarke

He Said Turn Here
By Dean Young

Hendecasyllabics
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
By Robert Browning

Hooded Night
By Robinson Jeffers

How to Accompany the Moon Without Walking
By Conrad Aiken

How We Heard the Name
By Alan Dugan

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I Hear a River thro’ the Valley Wander
By Trumbull Stickney

I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
By Howard Nemerov

I started Early – Took my Dog – (656)
By Emily Dickinson

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

In Kona, Thinking of the Elements
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In Love with You
By Kenneth Koch

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 15
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
By James Wright

In the Bay
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the Cold Country
By Barbara Howes

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Interior at Petworth: From Turner
By Rosanna Warren

Ishmael, or The Orphan
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Kalaloch
By Carolyn Forché

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kwannon
By Marjorie Pickthall

Land’s End
By Weldon Kees

Leaping Clear
By Irving Feldman

Leda
By H. D.

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter from Swan’s Island
By Elizabeth Spires

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
By Anne Sexton

Lines for a Prologue
By Archibald MacLeish

Lines on Locks (or Jail and the Erie Canal)
By John Logan

Lines to Mr. Hodgson Written on Board the Lisbon Packet
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Loiter
By Forrest Gander

Long Island Sound
By Emma Lazarus

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

Lost
By Carl Sandburg

Luciferin
By Dean Young

Magic
By Louis Untermeyer

Man
By George Herbert

Manifest
By Reginald Shepherd

Map
By Atsuro Riley

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Maximus, to himself
By Charles Olson

Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Milton
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Minor Poet
By Bill Sweeney

Misgivings
By Herman Melville

Moby Dick
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan

Mother Carey's Hen
By David Yezzi

My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
By Thomas Wyatt

My Lost Youth
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold

Near the Docks
By Dave Smith

Nether
By Leila Wilson

New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman

Niagara
By Adelaide Crapsey

Night
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Night Ferry
By Peter Sacks

Night Images
By Robert Fitzgerald

Night Without Sleep
By Robinson Jeffers

North
By Seamus Heaney

Ocean City: Early March
By Elizabeth Spires

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
By Pablo Neruda

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

On a View of Pasadena from the Hills
By Yvor Winters

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me
By John Ciardi

On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins

On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On the Beach at Night
By Walt Whitman

On the Beach at Night Alone
By Walt Whitman

On the Island
By Lawrence Raab

On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper

On the Seashore
By Rabindranath Tagore

On the water meadows
By Saradha Soobrayen

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

One With The Sun
By A. F. Moritz

Oread
By H. D.

Our Valley
By Philip Levine

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By Walt Whitman

Over the Sea our Galleys Went
By Robert Browning

Oystering
By Richard Howard

Palladium
By Matthew Arnold

Parting at Morning
By Robert Browning

Passage over Water
By Robert Duncan

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Patience
By Katherine Larson

Patroling Barnegat
By Walt Whitman

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Place Names
By Thomas James Merton

Plague of Dead Sharks
By Alan Dugan

Pleasure
By Carl Phillips

Poem by the Charles River
By Robin Blaser

Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton

Poetry
By Arthur Davidson Ficke

Prayer
By Jorie Graham

Prehistoric
By Claire Malroux

Prothalamion
By Edmund Spenser

Rain along Shore
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Repose of Rivers
By Hart Crane

Repulsive Theory
By Kay Ryan

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill

Rhode Island
By William Meredith

River
By Sherwin Bitsui

Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Sand Flesh and Sky
By Clarence Major

Sea Holly
By Conrad Aiken

Sea Poppies
By H. D.

Sea Rose
By H. D.

Seaweed
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Seaweeds
By Sandra McPherson

Self-Dependence
By Matthew Arnold

Shale
By Anne Stevenson

Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Shore Line
By Carl Rakosi

Shore Scene
By John Logan

Shoreline
By Mary Barnard

Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale

Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

Skin Cancer
By Mark Jarman

Skin Canoes
By Carolyn Forché

Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Song
By Thomas James Merton

Song
By Brenda Cárdenas

Song of the Sea to the Shore
By Robert Fanning

Song: Memory, hither come
By William Blake

Sonnet Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
By Charlotte Smith

Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
By William Wordsworth

Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #17
By Marvin Bell

Speckled Trout
By Ron Rash

Stanzas for Music
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Still Water
By Patricia Fargnoli

Stone Gullets
By May Swenson

from Stops Along the Western Bank of the Missouri River: Of the River Itself
By Michael Anania

Styx
By Robert Duncan

Subway Wind
By Claude McKay

Sunrise along Shore
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Swallow the Lake
By Clarence Major

Swells
By A. R. Ammons

The Bait
By John Donne

The Batture
By Dara Wier

The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees

The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling

The Berg (A Dream)
By Herman Melville

The Black Swan
By James Merrill

The Bones of My Father
By Etheridge Knight

The Boundary
By Bei Dao

from The Bridge: Cutty Sark
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane

The Building of the Ship
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Calm
By John Donne

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The Chambered Nautilus
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Character of Holland
By Andrew Marvell

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy

The Diving Apprentices
By Christopher Middleton

The Evening Darkens Over
By Robert Bridges

The Fable
By Yvor Winters

The Famous Tay Whale
By William McGonagall

The Figurehead
By Léonie Adams

The Fire of Drift-wood
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Fish
By Marianne Moore

The Flashboat
By Jane Cooper

The Forsaken Merman
By Matthew Arnold

The Future
By Matthew Arnold

The Gardener 66
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov

The Harbor
By Carl Sandburg

The Hermit Crab
By Mary Oliver

The Hills of Youth
By Alfred Noyes

The Homecoming
By Barbara Howes

The House of Life: 73. The Choice, III
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Idea of Order at Key West
By Wallace Stevens

The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Lake
By Sophie Cabot Black

The Lifeguard
By James L. Dickey

The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Little Waves of Breffny
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Lobster
By Carl Rakosi

The Maldive Shark
By Herman Melville

The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
By Langston Hughes

The Odd Last Thing She Did
By Brad Leithauser

The Painter
By John Ashbery

The Pier: Under Pisces
By James Merrill

The Pond
By Gregory Orr

The Pool
By H. D.

The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers

from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
By William Wordsworth

The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Question
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The River
By Gregory Orr

The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine

The River Now
By Richard F. Hugo

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound

The Rock in the Sea
By Archibald MacLeish

The Room in Which My First Child Slept
By Eavan Boland

The Sailor's Grave at Clo-oose, V.I.
By Marjorie Pickthall

The Saint and the Crab
By William Logan

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott

The Sea Chews Things Up
By Cleopatra Mathis

The Seafarer
By Ezra Pound

The Shore
By David St. John

The Shore of Life
By Robert Fitzgerald

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Slow Pacific Swell
By Yvor Winters

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Triumph of Time
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Truth
By Carl Phillips

The Truth the Dead Know
By Anne Sexton

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Two Streams
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll

The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Way to the River
By W. S. Merwin

The Witnesses
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The World below the Brine
By Walt Whitman

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith

Thing Language
By Jack Spicer

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thread
By Jonathan Galassi

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

Time
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Marguerite: Continued
By Matthew Arnold

To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden

To the Harbormaster
By Frank O'Hara

To the King on his Navy
By Edmund Waller

To the Muses
By William Blake

To You
By Kevin A. González

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Tom Deadlight (1810)
By Herman Melville

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Tor House
By Robinson Jeffers

Tracking
By Eleanor Wilner

Tritina for Susannah
By David Yezzi

Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass

Ultima Thule
By Linda Bierds

Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Undone Song at Neap Tide
By Kathryn Starbuck

Vermeer
By Debora Greger

Voices of the Air
By Katherine Mansfield

Voyages
By Hart Crane

Walking the Dunes
By Brenda Hillman

Wash of Cold River
By H. D.

Watching the Oregon Whale
By Annie Finch

Where the Blue Begins
By George Bradley

White Head
By Sophie Jewett

Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun

Willowspout
By R. T. Smith

Wind In Mytilene
By Eloise Klein Healy

With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath
By Linda Gregerson

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
By Eugene Field

Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth

Yarrow Unvisited
By William Wordsworth

Yarrow Visited. September, 1814
By William Wordsworth

Youth
By James Wright

Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge