
John Masefield
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Sea Fever
"I must go down to the seas again. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by," he writes. "The title Sea Fever, which suggests feverishness, all works for me as far as the seizing is concerned." The poem's first stanza: "On the wheels kick and the windsong and the white sails shaking"
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