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 ...

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 chosen as the nation's favourite sea poem. Read the full verse here ...

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. Sea Fever was published in 1900 ...

An Enduring Religious Poem This is certainly one of the great and enduring religious poems of our century, and it embodies the central message of hope that runs throughout Masefield’s poetry.

No poet had ever done it as well before. You can get an idea of Masefield's sea magic in words if you take the poem Sea Fever and read it out loud a few times.

'Sea-Fever' is a poem by John Masefield, from his first collection of poetry, Salt-Water Ballads, published in 1902. Ireland's setting of the text was written in 1913 and begins: I must down to the ...