Quote:
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
From Salt-Water Ballads (London: G. Richards, 1902).
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Just a minor (and tedious) setting the record straight -- as Bill notes, but I failed to see until writing this, the first line given is not from the volume given. (You might happily ignore the following textual criticism.)
In the 1902, and until the 1910
Ballads and Poems, the line is
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
But of course, bibliography's goal being to drive us crazy, the 1st American edition of
Salt-Water Poems and Ballads, 1916, returns to the no-
go version. As do the 1st American edition of
Salt Water Ballads and Poems (1923) and all four English editions (1923-1938) of
Collected Poems. And then there is the erroneous single first
sea, no-
go,version in the Boston rag,
The Living Age (1902).
Please, don't learn from JM how to title vols.
Marcia