From the "Polls I Never Knew Existed" department:

Britain's Top 10 Favourite Sea Poems:

1. Sea Fever by John Masefield
2. The Song of the Waterlily by Martin Newell
3. Cargoes by John Masefield
4. Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
5. The Seafarer (Anonymous)
6. Convoy by Charles Causley 7.
7. At the Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop
8. The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
9. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10. Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson

Source: Daily Mail

Here's the text of the chart topper

Sea Fever

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.