• 'Salt-Water Ballads' is a poem by - John Masefield. - John Masefield is a poet, best known for his poems of the Salt-Water Ballads and - His long narrative poems, such as The Everlasting Mercy. (1911), shocked literary orthodoxy with its phrases of a colloquial coarseness hitherto unknown in 20th-century English verse.
His notable works - - Dauber - Reynard the Fox - Salt-Water Ballads - The Everlasting Mercy - The MidNight Folk