Salt-Water Poems and Ballads is a book of poetry on themes of seafaring and maritime history by British future Poet Laureate John Masefield.

[3] Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

[4] "Sea-Fever" has been set to music by many composers, including John Coventry, on his EP "The Roots of Folk Volume 2" and Patrick Clifford on his album American Wake.

The poem has also been set for boys' emerging voices in a score by Oliver Tarney, published by Oxford University Press,[5] and by Kavisha Mazzella, a Western Australia-born musician and artist.

[6][7] English composer Frederick Keel (1871-1954) set three of the poems for voice and piano in his 1919 collection Three Salt-Water Ballads: "Port of Many Ships", "Trade Winds" and "Mother Carey".