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