"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"
"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 again [...]"". ""Cargoes"" first appeared in ""Ballads"" – Masefield's second volume of poetry, published in 1903 in London by Elkin Mathews. ""Sea-Fever"" has been set to music by many composers, including Stephen DeCesare and Patrick Clifford on his album ""American Wake""; the"
"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"
"Dura Navis ""Dura Navis"" was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1787. It is one of his earliest known poems and was written for a school assignment while Coleridge attended Christ's Hospital. The poem describes the pain of solitude that accompanies travel and the risks that accompany a voyage at sea, including combat against others and resorting to cannibalism. ""Dura Navis"", along with ""Easter Holidays"" and ""Niul Pejus est Caelibe Vita"", is one of Coleridge's earliest known poems. ""Dura Navis"" was written for an exercise while Coleridge attended Christ's Hospital at the age of 15. Of this exercise Coleridge wrote"
"Ireland's ""Sea Fever"", the lasting popularity of which belies any mismatch between the urgency of the language and the slow, swung melody. Frederick Keel crafted several songs drawn from the ""Salt-Water Ballads"" and elsewhere. Of these, ""Trade Winds"" was particularly popular in its day, despite the tongue-twisting challenges the text presents to the singer. Keel's defiant setting of ""Tomorrow"", written while interned at Ruhleben during World War I, was frequently programmed at the BBC Proms after the war. Another memorable wartime composition is Ivor Gurney's climactic declamation of ""By a bierside"", a setting quickly set down in 1916 during a"
"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"
"The Sea-Bell ""The Sea-Bell"" or ""Frodos Dreme"" is a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien included in his 1962 collection of verse ""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"". The work is based on an earlier poem entitled ""Looney"", which Tolkien had published in ""The Oxford Magazine"" in 1934. The 1962 version of the poem is considerably darker than, and twice as long as, the earlier version. Tolkien was initially reluctant to include the work in the collection, feeling that it was out of keeping with the other poems. Although ""Looney"" was composed long before Tolkien began work on ""The Lord of the Rings"","
"most famous version is by John Ireland. The poem has also been set, for boys' emerging voices, by Oliver Tarney and published by Oxford University Press. and by Kavisha Mazzella, a Western Australia-born musician and artist. ""Trade Winds"" has been set to music by Frederick Keel. ""Sea-Fever"" is quoted by Willy Wonka in the 1971 film ""Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"". The poem is quoted in part by Captain James T. Kirk in both the """" episode ""The Ultimate Computer"" and the film """" and is also quoted in the 2004 film ""Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow""."
"Easter Holidays ""Easter Holidays"" is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which he wrote at age fifteen in 1787. It is one of his earliest known poems and was included in a letter to his brother Luke. The poem describes the joy of Easter but also warns of possible future sorrows after one loses his innocence. The poem concludes with a Neoplatonic emphasis of virtue being able to conquer suffering. ""Easter Holidays"", along with ""Dura Navis"" and ""Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vita"", is one of Coleridge's earliest known poems. The poem was written in 1787 while Coleridge attended Christ's Hospital,"
"from Julius Caesar"", were completed or re-transcribed after his death by his student Geoffrey Bush. John Ireland (composer) John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 187912 June 1962) was an English composer and teacher of music. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and of songs with piano. His best-known works include the short instrumental or orchestral work ""The Holy Boy"", a setting of the poem ""Sea Fever"" by John Masefield, a formerly much-played Piano Concerto, the hymn tune Love Unknown and the choral motet ""Greater Love Hath No Man"". John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Cheshire, into"
"The Sea Fairies The Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1911 by the Reilly & Britton Company, the publisher of Baum's series of Oz books. As an underwater fantasy, Baum's ""The Sea Fairies"" can be classed with earlier books with similar themes, like Charles Kingsley's ""The Water-Babies"" (1863), and successors too, like E. Nesbit's ""Wet Magic"" (1913). Baum's novel has no relation to the 1830 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In 1905, however, a musical setting of Tennyson's poem for female chorus"
"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."
"had rendered it much more brackish. The historical geographer Carville Earle, among others, holds to this view. The temptation to drink seawater was greatest for sailors who had expended their supply of fresh water, and were unable to capture enough rainwater for drinking. This frustration was described famously by a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" (1798): Although humans cannot survive on seawater alone—and, indeed, will sicken quickly if they try—some people have claimed that up to two cups a day, mixed with fresh water in a 2:3 ratio, produces no ill effect."
"The Sea Voyage The Sea Voyage is a late Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. The play is notable for its imitation of Shakespeare's ""The Tempest."" ""The Sea Voyage"" was licensed for performance by the Master of the Revels on 22 June 1622. ""The Sea Voyage"" was acted by the King's Men; the second Beaumont/Fletcher folio of 1679 provides a partial cast list of the original production, which includes Joseph Taylor, William Ecclestone, Nicholas Tooley, John Lowin, and John Underwood, all members of the troupe. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 4 September 1646,"
"(松尾 芭蕉) (1644–1694). The sea plays a major role in Homer's epic poem the ""Odyssey"", describing the ten-year voyage of the Greek hero Odysseus who struggles to return home across the sea, encountering sea monsters along the way. In the Middle Ages, the sea appears in romances such as the Tristan legend, with motifs such as mythical islands and self-propelled ships. Pilgrimage is a common theme in stories and poems such as ""The Book of Margery Kempe"". Contemporary sea-inspired novels have been written by Joseph Conrad, Herman Wouk, and Herman Melville; poems about the sea have been written by Samuel"
"The Castaway The Castaway is an elegiac poem/ballad written by William Cowper in 1799. The poem is written in rhymed stanzas and gives the account of a crewman who was washed overboard during a storm. The poem is based on George Anson's ""Voyage around the World"" after Cowper read an account which told of one of the men being washed overboard and the horror that his shipmates felt as they watched him without being able to help as shown in this stanza of the poem: There is one explicit reference to Anson's voyage: Cowper, already having dealt with several periods"
"the Japanese Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉) (1644–1694). In modern literature, sea-inspired novels have been written by Joseph Conrad — drawn from his experience at sea, Herman Wouk, and Herman Melville. In the works of psychiatrist Carl Jung, the sea symbolizes the personal and the collective unconscious in dream interpretation, the depths of the sea symbolizing the depths of the unconscious mind. Although the origin of life on Earth is still a matter of debate, scientist and writer Rachel Carson, in her award-winning 1951 book ""The Sea Around Us"", wrote, ""It is a curious situation that the sea,"
"Charles Tennyson Turner published ""Poems by Two Brothers"". August 12: William Blake died. In 1828, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born 9 September. In 1828, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel died 11 January. Edgar Allan Poe published a poem: ""Al Aaraaf"". In 1831, Sir Walter Scott published ""Castle Dangerous"". Edgar Allan Poe published a poem: ""The City in the Sea"". In 1832, Percy Shelley published his poem ""The Masque of Anarchy"", a reaction to the Peterloo massacre. Johann Wolfgang Goethe published part II of ""Faust"". On March 20 Goethe died. Jerrold Douglas published ""The Factory Girl"", ""The Golden Calf"" and ""The"
"cleared the seas of enemy mines in World War I. T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". The Sweepers (poem) ""The Sweepers"" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the fourth of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title ""The Fringes of the Fleet"". Like the others in the cycle, it is intended for four baritone voices: a solo and chorus. It was originally written with orchestral accompaniment, but was"
"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"
"identified ""the sea as an archetype of the Sublime in nature: 'of all the objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination as much as the sea or ocean' "". Later in this century Samuel Taylor Coleridge's narrative poem ""Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" (1798), developed the idea of the ocean as ""realm of unspoiled nature and a refuge from the perceived threats of civilization"". However, it is Byron ""who has taken most of the credit for inventing the nineteenth-century sea, in ""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"" (1812-16): A distinct sea novel genre, which focuses on representing"
"The Seagull (poem) ""The Seagull"" (Welsh: ""Yr Wylan"") is a love poem in 30 lines by the 14th-century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, probably written in or around the 1340s. Dafydd is widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets, and this is one of his best-known and best-loved works. The poet addresses and praises a seagull flying over the waves, comparing it to, among other things, a gauntlet, a ship at anchor, a sea-lily, and a nun. He asks it to find a girl whom he compares to Eigr and who can be found on the ramparts of"
"that profiled the sea and its cultural importance, for example Homer's epic poem the ""Odyssey"", the Old English poem ""The Seafarer"", The Icelandic Saga of Eric the Red (c.1220-1280), or early European travel narratives like Richard Hakluyt's (c. 1552–1616) ""Voyages"" (1589). Then during the 18th century, as Bernhard Klein notes in defining ""sea fiction"" for his scholarly collection on sea fiction, European cultures began to gain an appreciation of the ""sea"" through varying thematic lenses. First because of the economic opportunities brought by the sea and then through the influence of the Romantic movement. As early as 1712 Joseph Addison"
"and begins to sink. The man is then seen adrift in a Lusitania lifeboat only to be picked up decades later by the SS ""Andrea Doria"". The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"". Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"", it is often considered a signal shift to"
"The Sea Lady The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel written by H. G. Wells that has some of the aspects of a fable. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in ""Pearson's Magazine"" before being published as a volume by Methuen. The inspiration for the novel was Wells's glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the ""Times"" drama critic, in a bathing suit, when she came to visit at Sandgate, Wells having agreed to pay her school fees after her father's death. The intricately narrated story involves a mermaid who comes ashore on the southern coast of England"
"leave include Jean Genet's 1953 novel, ""Querelle of Brest""; Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's 1949 film musical of Leonard Bernstein's ""On the Town""; and Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel's 1964 ballad ""Amsterdam"". Singer-songwriter Tom Waits wrote a song entitled ""Shore Leave"" in 1982, and included it on his album of the following year ""Swordfishtrombones"". As well as describing the excesses noted above, it also details the loneliness that many sailors feel when they suddenly find themselves with free time but without loved ones to share it with. In many science fiction stories where space travel is depicted, shore leave has 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"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"". Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"", it is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a"
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and ""Kubla Khan"", as well as the major prose work ""Biographia Literaria"". His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He had a major"
"1893, of which the song ""The Green Little Isle of the Sea"" achieved some popularity. He composed songs""Thou art my Queen"" with words by educationist Alfred Edward Maegraith (father of tropical medicine researcher Brian Gilmore Maegraith, cartoonist Kerwin Maegraith and war hero Hugh Maegraith), first performed in 1890 by Richard Nitschke, and ""Australia"", with words by C. C. Presgrave (better known as a painter and prominent member of the Adelaide Easel Club), again promoted by R. Nitschke. Moritz Heuzenroeder Moritz Heuzenroeder (15 July 1849 – 10 November 1897) was a pianist, composer and teacher of music born in Germany who"
"Taylor Coleridge, Rudyard Kipling and John Masefield. The sea has inspired much music over the centuries including sea shanties, Richard Wagner's ""The Flying Dutchman"", Claude Debussy's ""La mer"" (1903–05), Charles Villiers Stanford's ""Songs of the Sea"" (1904) and ""Songs of the Fleet"" (1910), Edward Elgar's ""Sea Pictures"" (1899) and Ralph Vaughan Williams' ""A Sea Symphony"" (1903–1909). Burial at sea has been practised in various ways by countries around the world since the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Human reactions to the sea are found in, for example, literature, art, poetry, film, theatre, and classical music, as well as"
"author of the poem ""Ocean Burial"", which was put to music by George N. Allen. The song which it became was published widely. It became a sailor's song and also the beginnings for another song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie. He wrote the poem in his youth and it was published in September 1839 in Poe's Southern Literary Messenger. He was a trustee of Bellevue Medical College and Hospital, and a member of: the State Historical Society, the beneficent society called the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the prestigious Century Club, composed of ""authors, artists, and amateurs"