We learned this in 5th grade. Masefield was still alive and still poet laureate. I greatly admire his touch with meter here, bringing subtlety and complexity without making you feel he is just diluting his meter with prose. A rollicking submission.
Fairly recently, I picked up a collected Masefield. Sea Fever gives a poor idea of his range, even early on. For sea poems, the long poem Dauber is grand and if there are any vivider poetic depictions of storms at sea, I'd like to know about them. The second part of Reynard the Fox must be one of the best chase sequences in poetry. Thanks, friends!
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