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“Songs of the Sea – Poetry Dedicated to the Mayflower Voyage” is a collection of poetry by various poets, including James Russell Lowell, Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others. The poems all concern the ‘Mayflower’, an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. Contents include: “The Mayflower”, “Pilgrim Song, by Florence Earle Coates”, “The Sailing of the May Flower, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, “On Lending a Punch-Bowl, by Oliver Wendell Holmes”, “Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, by Felicia Dorothea Hemans”, “The Message, by George Edward Woodberry”, “The Mayflowers, by John Greenleaf Whittier”, etc. A fantastic collection not to be missed by poetry lovers with an interest in early American history.