Today’s Poem of the Day, “Sea Fever” by John Masefield (1878–1967), has long been a staple of children’s anthologies. It’s the quintessence of the traditional “boy’s poem,” with its call to a life ...

Sea Fever by John Masefield has been chosen as the nation's favourite sea poem. Read the full verse below: Sea Fever. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, ...

John Masefield featured yesterday with his reflection on autumn ploughing. Here he turns to the sea, in one of the most iconic of English poems. Ironically, the future poet laureate had embarked ...

Sea Fever by John Masefield has been voted the nation's favourite sea poem, ahead of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which came ninth. Read the full poem here ...

The weird thing about John Masefield the Poet Laureate is that, though he was famous throughout his life for his fine verse about the sea, he couldn't be on a ship for more than two hours before ...