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Summary: Sea Fever
Review: This book holds some of the best-loved ocean and water poems of all time, including all 3 verses of my absolute favorite poem by John Masefield, Sea Fever.
Oh I must go down to the seas again,
to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song,
and the white sail's shaking
And a grey mist on the sea's face
and a grey dawn breaking . . .
The book's main sections are:
Sea Fever,
The Call of the Deep
Storm and Call
Ballads
Songs and Chanteys
Anthem Prayer and Hymn
Seafarers
Wrecks at Sea
Legends
Above and Beyond
Reading the Waves.
Authors include of course John Masefield, but also Robert Frost, Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, John Milton, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Percy Shelley. There are also anonymous poems including Trafalgar, Davey Jones's Locker, Blow the Man Down, and Drunken Sailor.
If you love the water and if you love books, you will love this little volume of poems.
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