From our stacks: Illustration for "Sea Fever" from Rainbow Gold. Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls By Sara Teasdale With Illustrations By Dugald Walker. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
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John Masefield
1878 - 1967
Sea Fever (1902)
I must go down to 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.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
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“Sea-fever
I must down to 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.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.”
― John Masefield, Sea Fever: Selected Poems
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scrimshaw is such a beautiful name for a baby boy
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i would've fucked it
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So today I've watched "Sea Fever" from 2019 and god damn this is a solid movie. A group of Irish adventurers, Fishermen and scientist are in the ocean and become strange as a creature counts to the boat and poisons their water supply with a killer parasite. At times this movie is like Cabin Fever, at times it is like Slither and even at times it feels like The Thing.
I few really cool death scenes and some solid acting. My only grievance is the creature itself (the tentacle look Meh) but overall I give this a solid 4 out of 5
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Ok, I'm doing Whale Weekly, and I'm barely a few paragraphs in, and it already kinda rocks.
Talking about going to sea "whenever it is a damp drizzly November in my soul" is just brilliant. Talk about imagery. That's poetry right there.
This first entry is giving me strong "Sea Fever" vibes.
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A pome for Count Dracula, on realising he's left his cargo on the Demeter and really should arrange for delivery
With apologies to John Masefield, via Spike Milligan
I must go down to the sea again,
To the Whitby harbour pool;
I left my bloody coffin there-
I really am a fool!
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Sea Fever
[ Neasa Hardiman • 2019 ]
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Weekend gateway 🌅
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Sea Fever is the kind of film I wish I could like more since you can't go wrong with aquatic horror but it just felt mid and there's some plot holes that took me out of it.
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Movie Streamlist: Something in the Water
Jaws (1975)
Signs (2002)
Sea Fever (2019)
Anaconda (1997)
The Abyss (1989)
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Marryat had much to be proud of as he reflected back over his turbulent life, yet even then he seems to have had a sneaking suspicion that history would overlook him to some extent. He had already endured the chagrin of seeing his friend and rival Dickens overtake him as the dominant novelist of the era. In naval terms, Marryat also felt thwarted: for all his heroism as a youth, history had dictated that he could never achieve the greatness of Cochrane and he felt that the Admiralty had for many years passed him over.
— Sam Jefferson, Sea Fever: The True Adventures that Inspired Our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
Sun rising through Vapour: Fishermen cleaning and selling Fish, Joseph Mallord William Turner, before 1807.
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i must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and sky / and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
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