Mojave made a good comment above: it's the present simple subjunctive. In both of your contexts, the speakers (a poet and a pirate! yarrr) use this form more freely than an average modern English speaker would. Still, it's perfectly correct grammar.
Basically: "I am / we,you,they are / he,she,it is" = indicative mood, ie. it exists in reality.
However, "(subject) be..." = subjunctive mood, ie. it exists in theory.
A modern speaker would prefer "If that is" over "if that be", but both are grammatically correct.