"Which poem by John Masefield begins with the words ""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""?"
"alliteration to suggest the sea's sound and rhythms: ""Who hath desired the Sea?—the sight of salt water unbounded— The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?"" John Masefield also felt the pull of the sea in his ""Sea Fever"", writing ""I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky."" The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges wrote the 1964 poem ""El mar"" (""The Sea""), treating it as something that constantly regenerates the world and the people who contemplate it, and that is very close to the essence of being"
"that he was to become a writer and story teller himself. In 1894, Masefield boarded the ""Gilcruix"", destined for Chile – this first voyage bringing him the experience of sea sickness. He recorded his experiences while sailing through the extreme weather, his journal entries reflecting a delight in seeing flying fish, porpoises, and birds, and was awed by the beauty of nature, including a rare sighting of a nocturnal rainbow on his voyage. On reaching Chile, Masefield suffered from sunstroke and was hospitalised. He eventually returned home to England as a passenger aboard a steam ship. In 1895, Masefield returned"
"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"" first appeared in ""Salt-Water Ballads"" – Masefield's first volume of poetry published in"
"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"" first appeared in ""Salt-Water Ballads"" – Masefield's first volume of poetry published in"
"John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon after following a mental breakdown."
"to sea on a windjammer destined for New York City. However, the urge to become a writer and the hopelessness of life as a sailor overtook him, and in New York, he deserted ship. He lived as a vagrant for several months, drifting between odd jobs, eventually finding work as an assistant to a bar keeper, before finally returning to New York City. Sometime around Christmas 1895, Masefield read the December edition of ""Truth"", a New York periodical, which contained the poem ""The Piper of Arll"" by Duncan Campbell Scott. Ten years later, Masefield wrote to Scott to tell him"
"The Seafarer (poem) The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word ""Amen"" and is recorded only at folios 81 verso - 83 recto of the Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry. It has most often, though not always, been categorised as an elegy, a poetic genre commonly assigned to a particular group of Old English poems that reflect on spiritual and earthly melancholy. Much scholarship suggests that the poem is told from the"
"brief spell behind the lines. John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon"
"first collected works, ""Salt-Water Ballads"" (1902) was published, the poem ""Sea-Fever"" appearing in this book. Masefield then wrote the novels, ""Captain Margaret"" (1908) and ""Multitude and Solitude"" (1909). In 1911, after a long drought of poem writing, he composed ""The Everlasting Mercy"", the first of his narrative poems, and within the next year had produced two more, ""The Widow in the Bye Street"" and ""Dauber"". As a result, he became widely known to the public and was praised by the critics; in 1912, he was awarded the annual Edmond de Polignac prize. When World War I began, although old enough"
"poems which are included in the first published volume of songs by Leyerle Publications. Many of Faith's songs have themes related to the sea, and there are a number of others in which the sea figures as an integral element in the poem. This stems from the composer""s extreme fascination with water, having been raised near the high banks of the wide Ohio River in Evansville, Indiana. ""Sea Fever"" (John Masefield), one of Faith's few biographically-influenced songs, displays such a depth of emotion rare for a nineteen-year-old. It is an important early song because it established many compositional techniques to"
"Sailing Westward ""Sailing Westward"" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (collectively known as the """"Pageant of Empire"""") written to be performed in the ""Pageant of Empire"" at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley Park, on 21 July 1924. The song descriptively commemorates the adventurous English sea-captains who sailed to """"... chase the setting sun ... westward, thro' the thund'ring gales"""". Elgar used the same music for four other songs in the set: """"The Islands"""", """"Gloriana"""" (Queen Elizabeth I), """"The Cape of Good Hope"""" (for"
"After an unhappy education at the King's School in Warwick (now known as Warwick School), where he was a boarder between 1888 and 1891, he left to board , both to train for a life at sea, and to break his addiction to reading, of which his aunt thought little. He spent several years aboard this ship and found that he could spend much of his time reading and writing. It was aboard the Conway that Masefield's love for story-telling grew. While on the ship, he listened to the stories told about sea lore. He continued to read, and felt"
"The Lonely (British Sea Power song) ""The Lonely"" is a song by British Sea Power. The song was the group's third single and their second on Rough Trade. It was their first single to garner much press coverage and resulted in a pleasing chart position. Unusually, the nominal a-side actually features as the flipside on both versions. The main position is taken by ""The Spirit of St. Louis"", a tale of Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic. This is still regularly performed live despite it only appearing on this release. The title track was written as a tribute to Geoff"
"hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop—only the name And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky. And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Adlestrop (poem) ""Adlestrop"" is a poem by Edward Thomas. It is based on a railway journey Thomas took on 24 June 1914, during which his train briefly stopped at the"
"Der Untergang der Titanic Der Untergang der Titanic, or, in English, The Sinking of the Titanic, is an epic and allegorical poem by the German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger, first published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1978. The poem is primarily about the failure of Western civilization as an enterprise, a point which Enzensberger makes explicitly in the passage about Icelanders, who, when their properties are threatened by volcanic lava flows, endeavour to stem the inexorable tide with hoses: Similarities and parallels have been frequently drawn between this poem and T. S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"", not only in terms of"
"The Lowestoft Boat ""The Lowestoft Boat"" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the first of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title ""The Fringes of the Fleet"". The song is sub-titled """"A Chanty"""" and, like the others in the cycle, is intended for four baritone voices: a solo and chorus. It was originally written with orchestral accompaniment, but it was later published to be sung with piano accompaniment. Kipling prefaced the poem with the words """"East Coast Patrols"
"which suggest that the poem was not completed when he sent it. ""Per ardua ad astra"" (""Through adversity to the stars"") is the motto of a number of Commonwealth air forces, such as the Royal Air Force, RAAF, RNZAF and the RCAF. It was first used in 1912 by the newly formed Royal Flying Corps. John Gillespie Magee Jr. John Gillespie Magee Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and poet, who wrote the poem ""High Flight"". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England"
"to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"", published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words. The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration (1772–1775) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook. On this second voyage Cook crossed three times into the Antarctic Circle to determine whether the fabled great southern continent existed. Critics have also suggested"
"the UK and USA from at least 1767. This is believed to be a corruption of ""mater cara"" (""dear mother"", the Virgin Mary), a reference to the supernatural Mother Carey, or a superstitious modification of an earlier ""Mother Mary's Chicken"" to reduce the potency of the religious name. The Mother Carey character appears a number of times in literature. In the Cicely Fox Smith poem ""Mother Carey"", she calls old sailors to return to the sea, but in John Masefield's poem of the same name she is seen as a wrecker of ships. She appears as a fairy in Charles"
"but nobody, could write about storms at sea like Conrad"". One of Wouk's own marine novels, ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1952), won the Pulitzer Prize. Herman Melville's 1851 novel ""Moby-Dick"" was described by the poet John Masefield as speaking ""the whole secret of the sea"". A large seabird, the albatross, played a central part in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's influential 1798 poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"", which in turn gave rise to the usage of albatross as metaphor for a burden. In his 1902 poem ""The Sea and the Hills"", Rudyard Kipling expresses the urge for the sea, and uses"
"a song about the sea by Joni Mitchell, one track on her debut album ""Song to a Seagull"" (1968). ""Voyage of the Dawn Treader"" is a song by Bobby Wynn based on ""The Chronicles of Narnia"". ""Dawn Treader"" is a song by Charlotte Hatherley on her 2007 album ""The Deep Blue"". The spaceship ""Dawn Treader"" in Greg Bear's novel ""Anvil of Stars"" is presumably also named for the ship in this book. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in"
"Boar's Hill, a somewhat rural setting not far from Oxford, where Masefield took up beekeeping, goat-herding and poultry-keeping. He continued to meet with success, the 1923 edition of ""Collected Poems"" selling approximately 80,000 copies. He produced three poems early in this decade. The first was ""Reynard The Fox"" (1920), a poem that has been critically compared with works of Geoffrey Chaucer, not necessarily to Masefield's credit. This was followed by ""Right Royal"" and ""King Cole"", poems where the relationship of humanity and nature were emphasised. While ""Reynard"" is the best known of these, all met with acclaim. After ""King Cole"","
"You’ve heard of Robinson Crusoe, well he had nothing on me. I’m always all alone, no sweety of my own, to make me happy as can be. I’m just as blue as skies above, I’d like to find someone to shower with my love, believe me. I’m a lonesome little raindrop looking for a place to fall. The girls say I’m a charming fella, but when I come around each girl puts up her umbrella. Girls they are so fair, they all give me the air I keep on falling falling but don’t land anywhere, oh I’m a lonesome little"
"the mind. Unhappy we the setting sun deplore, So glorious once, but ah! it shines no more. Behold the prophet in his tow'ring flight! He leaves the earth for heav'n's unmeasur'd height, And worlds unknown receive him from our sight. There Whitefield wings with rapid course his way, And sails to Zion through vast seas of day. Thy pray'rs, great saint, and thine incessant cries Have pierc'd the bosom of thy native skies. Thou moon hast seen, and all the stars of light, How he has wrestled with his God by night. He pray'd that grace in ev'ry heart might"
"of Rod Serling's television series ""Night Gallery"" pays homage to the poem in an episode entitled ""Lone Survivor."" In it the RMS ""Lusitania"" picks up a lone survivor drifting in a lifeboat from the RMS ""Titanic"", despite the great ship having sunk three years before. The man tells them he escaped the Titanic by dressing as a woman and as a result of his selfish act he must forever drift from doomed ship to doomed ship. The man warns the crew of the Lusitania that the ship will be torpedoed. They do not believe him until the Lusitania is hit"
"a shroud. I sing my song That only Heaven hears: Ah! How beautiful she was And how I loved her! I shall never love A woman as much as her... How bitter is my fate! Ah! Without love to sail on the sea!</poem> ""Sur les lagunes: Lamento"" (On the Lagoons: Lament), with its sombre harmonies and orchestration is imbued with melancholy; the undulating accompaniment suggests the movement of the waves. The poem is the lament of a Venetian boatman at the loss of his beloved, and the pain of sailing out to sea unloved. This is the second of the"
"her past and detach herself from her roots, she consequently detaches herself from all relationships, leaving her feeling alone. While attending Queen Victoria girls' school, she was forced to memorize a poem about daffodils. (This poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" was written by William Wordsworth roughly two centuries ago.) The poem recalls the beauty of daffodils that the speaker has seen years ago. Lucy cannot appreciate this beauty, because daffodils do not grow on her island. After reciting the poem, Lucy is applauded and she explains that at this moment she feels fake. She feels like people see"
"crimes, responding with a quote from Everlasting Mercy: The Everlasting Mercy The Everlasting Mercy is a poem by John Masefield, the UK's second longest-serving poet laureate. It was published in 1911, and is styled as the confession of a man who has turned from sin to Christianity. The work that first made Masefield famous, it shocked early 20th century British sensibilities with its direct, honest, and therefore often harsh language, as the life of protagonist violent, drunken womanizer Saul Kane is laid out in detail. In the third episode of the series Peter Gunn, ""The Vicious Dog"", the last line"
"William Wordsworth whose poems were most famous and influential. Wordsworth's poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"", inspired by the sight of daffodils on the shores of Ullswater, remains one of the most famous in the English language. Out of his long life of eighty years, sixty were spent amid its lakes and mountains, first as a schoolboy at Hawkshead, and afterwards living in Grasmere (1799–1813) and Rydal Mount (1813–50). Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey became known as the Lake Poets. The poet and his wife lie buried in the churchyard of Grasmere and very near to them are the remains"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" (also commonly known as ""Daffodils"") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a ""long belt"" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account), it was first published in 1807 in ""Poems in Two Volumes"", and a revised version was published in 1815. In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio 4 ""Bookworm"" programme"
"Walking Up London Street"", ""I Was Forced on Board to Serve My King"", ""The Sailor Deceived"", ""Sweet William"" (or ""Willie""), and ""The Disappointed Sailor"", and cowboy variants are called ""Cowboy's Girl"", ""Following the Cow Trail"" and ""The Trail to Mexico"". A sailor goes on board ship (sometimes pressed) while his sweetheart pledges her undying love. <poem> It was one morning in the spring, I went on board to serve the king. I left my dearest dear behind Which oftentimes told me her heart was mine. </poem> During his voyages he writes to her but hears nothing in return. He thinks"
"sources have been suggested as an inspiration for Burns. A contemporary poem, ""O fare thee well, my dearest dear"", written by a Lieutenant Hinches bears a striking similarity to Burns's verse, notably the lines which refer to ""ten thousand miles"" and ""Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear"". A ballad originating from the same period entitled ""The Turtle Dove"" also contains similar lines, such as ""Though I go ten thousand mile, my dear"" and ""Oh, the stars will never fall down from the sky/Nor the rocks never melt with the sun"". Of particular note is a collection of verse"
"with mystery. Asia, I want to sail away on the schooner That rides in the harbour this evening Mysterious and solitary, And finally unfurls purple sails Like a vast nocturnal bird in the golden sky. I want to sail away to the islands of flowers, Listening to the perverse sea singing To an old bewitching rhythm. I want to see Damascus and the cities of Persia With their slender minarets in the air. I want to see beautiful turbans of silk Over dark faces with gleaming teeth; I want to see dark amorous eyes And pupils sparkling with joy In"