Salt-Water Poems And Ballads
''Salt-Water Poems and Ballads'' is a book of poetry on themes of seafaring and maritime history by John Masefield. It was first published in 1916 by Macmillan, with illustrations by Charles Pears. Many of the poems had been published in Masefield's earlier collections, ''Salt-Water Ballads'' (1902), ''Ballads'' (1903) and ''Ballads and Poems'' (1910). They were included in ''The Collected Poems of John Masefield'' published by Heinemann in 1923. ''Salt-Water Poems and Ballads'' includes "Sea-Fever" and "Cargoes", two of Masefield's best known poems. "Sea-Fever" "Sea-Fever" first appeared in ''Salt-Water Ballads'' – Masefield's first volume of poetry published in 1902 in London by Grant Richards. In ''The Collected Poems of John Masefield'' the opening line was changed to the text now more commonly anthologised: "I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky". The first lines of the second and third stanzas retained the form "I must down to the seas aga ...
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