Title on cover: Sea songs & ballads.
Poems, songs, and ballads of the sea ;: And celebrated discoverers, battles, shipwrecks, and incidents, illustrative of life on the ocean wave containing the best productions of the most celebrated authors of all ages and countries : including the glories of nature, home life and rural scenes, famous ballads, national airs and love songs, childhood and youth, patriots and heroes, tales of the sea : the brightest gems of the world's master minds : embracing Scotch and Irish melodies, tragedy and sorrow, sacred poems, wit and wisdom, cyclopedia of poetical quotations, biographies of authors, etc., etc. : the whole forming a complete library of poetry, prose and song