6-984: Salt-Water Poems and Ballads is a book of poetry on themes of seafaring and maritime history by British future Poet Laureate John Masefield . It was first published in 1916 by Macmillan , with illustrations by Charles Pears . The collection includes "Sea-Fever" and "Cargoes" , two of Masefield's best known poems. 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. "Sea-Fever" first appeared in Salt-Water Ballads – Masefield's first volume of poetry, published in 1902 in London by Grant Richards . I must go down to
12-542: Is by John Ireland . The poem has also been set for boys' emerging voices in a score by Oliver Tarney , published by Oxford University Press , and by Kavisha Mazzella , a Western Australia-born musician and artist. Andy Vine , a Welsh-born Canadian folk musician, has also set the words to a folk melody of his own invention. English composer Frederick Keel (1871-1954) set three of the poems for voice and piano in his 1919 collection Three Salt-Water Ballads : "Port of Many Ships", "Trade Winds" and "Mother Carey". "Sea-Fever"
18-731: Is quoted by Willy Wonka in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory . The poem is quoted in part by Captain James T. Kirk in both the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Ultimate Computer " and the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier . It is also quoted in the 2004 film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow . "Sea-Fever" is also recited during the Last Supper scene in
24-603: The 12-hour Facebook Live event episode of The Third Day (miniseries) , Part 2: Autumn. The line "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by" is quoted on the ship plaque of the USS Defiant in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . The sailor Sir Peter Blake 's headstone, at Warblington Cemetery, near Emsworth on the south coast of England, bears the first stanza of Sea-Fever. Seamanship Too Many Requests If you report this error to
30-415: 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. 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
36-744: 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 . Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine , With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood , cedarwood , and sweet white wine. "Sea-Fever" has been set to music by many composers, including John Coventry, on his EP "The Roots of Folk Volume 2" and Patrick Clifford on his album American Wake . The most famous version
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