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Salt-Water Ballads

by John Masefield

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Epigraph — A Consecration
  3. 3The Yarn of the ‘Loch Achray’
  4. 4Sing a Song o’ Shipwreck
  5. 5Burial Party
  6. 6Bill
  7. 7Fever Ship
  8. 8Fever-Chills
  9. 9One of the Bo’sun’s Yarns
  10. 10Hell’s Pavement
  11. 11Sea-Change
  12. 12Harbour-Bar
  13. 13The Turn of the Tide
  14. 14One of Wally’s Yarns
  15. 15A Valediction (Liverpool Docks)
  16. 16A Night at Dago Tom’s
  17. 17‘Port of Many Ships’
  18. 18Cape Horn Gospel — I
  19. 19Cape Horn Gospel — II
  20. 20Mother Carey (as Told Me by the Bo’sun)
  21. 21Evening — Regatta Day
  22. 22A Valediction
  23. 23A Pier-Head Chorus
  24. 24The Golden City of St. Mary
  25. 25Trade Winds
  26. 26Sea-Fever
  27. 27A Wanderer’s Song
  28. 28Cardigan Bay
  29. 29Christmas Eve at Sea
  30. 30A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent
  31. 31The Tarry Buccaneer
  32. 32A Ballad of John Silver
  33. 33Lyrics From ‘The Buccaneer’
  34. 34D’Avalos’ Prayer
  35. 35The West Wind
  36. 36The Galley-Rowers
  37. 37Sorrow of Mydath
  38. 38Vagabond
  39. 39Vision
  40. 40Spunyarn
  41. 41The Dead Knight
  42. 42Personal
  43. 43On Malvern Hill
  44. 44Tewkesbury Road
  45. 45On Eastnor Knoll
  46. 46‘Rest Her Soul, She’s Dead’
  47. 47‘All Ye That Pass by’
  48. 48In Memory of a. P. R.
  49. 49To-Morrow
  50. 50Cavalier
  51. 51A Song at Parting
  52. 52Glossary

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