A literary anthology of sea poetry and song, selected and arranged by Robert Frothingham (1865–1937), a New York journalist and anthologist best known for his themed “Songs of” series for Houghton Mifflin. The series included Songs of Men (1918), Songs of Dogs (1920), Songs of Horses (1920), and Songs of Challenge (1922), among others.

The book is primarily a collection of verse by named literary poets of the early 20th century, celebrating seafaring culture broadly: pirates, naval battles, ocean voyaging, and coastal life. It also includes a collection of around 30 traditional working chanteys. Notable inclusions are Young Ewing Allison’s “Derelict” (the poem that became “Fifteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest”), Sir Henry Newbolt’s “Drake’s Drum”, Christopher Morley’s “Sing a Song of Steerage”, and an Old English translation of “The Seafarer”. The anthology also reproduces a letter from Joseph Conrad in connection with the schooner Tusitala.

The Mystic Seaport bibliography of sea chanteys classifies it as a “Collection with significant sections on sea songs” and notes: “Mostly poetry; contains some traditional songs.” A reprint was issued in 1969 by Books for Libraries Press.