Ocean and sea

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 6.

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Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.

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Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Salt-Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards, 1902, I. 1.

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Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Sea Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield, edited by Philip W. Errington. Carcanet Press, 2005, I. 1.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 1:7).

The sea! the sea!

Xenophon

Anabasis

Greek soldiers, upon seeing the Black Sea for the first time as they returned from war in Persia.

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Xenophon. Anabasis. c. 370 BC, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 24.

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Xenophon. The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by David Thomas, edited by Shand Brennan and David Thomas. Pantheon, 2021, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 24.

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 4, st. 183.

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Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 4, st. 183.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 4.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 4.

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 1.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 1.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 1.

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Carson, Rachel. The Sea Around Us. Oxford University Press, 1951, pt. 3.

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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 2.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

The dragon-green, the luminous, the dark, the serpent-haunted sea.

James Elroy Flecker

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Flecker, James Elroy. "The Gates of Damascus." The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1916, I. 33.

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Cunningham, Allan. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea. Performed by Mr. Howard. Baltimore: Howard. G. Willig Jr., 1850, I. 1.

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.

Charles R. Johnson

Middle Passage

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Johnson, Charles R. Middle Passage. Atheneum Publishers, 1990.

Look at that sea, girls-all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

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Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. L. C. Page & Co., 1908.

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Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. Puffin Books, 2014.

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Carson, Rachel. The Edge of the Sea. Houghton Mifflin, 1955, ch. 1.