Biography (John Masefield Poems)
When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts, And long before this ...
John Masefield Poems (65 Poems)
The (John Masefield Poems)
All day they loitered by the resting ships,Telling their beauties over, taking stock;At night the verdict left my messmate's lips,"The ...
Seven Poems (John Masefield Poems)
IHere in the self is all that man can knowOf Beauty, all the wonder, all the power,All the unearthly colour, ...
One of the Bo’sun’s Yarns (John Masefield Poems)
Loafin' around in Sailor Town, a-bluin' o' my advance,I met a derelict donkyman who led me a merry dance,Till he ...
The Yarn of the (John Masefield Poems)
The Loch Achray was a clipper tallWith seven-and-twenty hands in all.Twenty to hand and reef and haul,A skipper to sail ...
The Passing Strange (John Masefield Poems)
Out of the earth to rest or rangePerpetual in perpetual change,The unknown passing through the strange.Water and saltness held togetherTo ...
Fragments (John Masefield Poems)
Troy Town is covered up with weeds,The rabbits and the pismires broodOn broken gold, and shards, and beadsWhere Priam's ancient ...
A Creed (John Masefield Poems)
I hold that when a person dies His soul returns again to earth;Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise Another mother gives him birth.With ...
Port Of Many Ships (John Masefield Poems)
It's a sunny pleasant anchorage is Kingdom ComeWhere the crew is always layin' aft with double-tots o' rum'N' there's dancin' ...
A Valediction (John Masefield Poems)
We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to ...
Captain Stratton’s Fancy (John Masefield Poems)
Oh some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white,And some are all for dancing by the ...
A Ballad of John Silver (John Masefield Poems)
We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull,And we flew the pretty colours of the cross-bones and ...
The West Wind (John Masefield Poems)
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;I never hear the west wind but tears are in ...
On Growing Old (John Masefield Poems)
Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;My dog and I are old, too old for roving.Man, whose young ...
A Night At Dago Tom’s (John Masefield Poems)
Oh yesterday, I t'ink it was, while cruisin' down the street,I met with Bill. — "Hullo," he says, "let's give ...
The Island of Skyros (John Masefield Poems)
Here, where we stood together, we three men,Before the war had swept us to the EastThree thousand miles away, I ...
The Tarry Buccaneer (John Masefield Poems)
I'm going to be a pirate with a bright brass pivot-gun,And an island in the Spanish Main beyond the setting ...
Lollingdon Downs VIII (John Masefield Poems)
THE Kings go by with jewled crowns;Their horses gleam, their banners shake, their spears are many.The sack of many-peopled townsIs ...
Mother Carey (As told Me by the Bo’sun) (John Masefield Poems)
Mother Carey? She's the mother o' the witches'N' all them sort o' rips;She's a fine gell to look at, but ...
C.L.M. (John Masefield Poems)
In the dark womb where I beganMy mother's life made me a man.Through all the months of human birthHer beauty ...
The Seekers (John Masefield Poems)
Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth nor blessed abode,But the hope of the City of God at the ...
Sea Change (John Masefield Poems)
"Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea They ain't no birds, not really", said Billy the Dane."Not ...
Night Is On The Downland (John Masefield Poems)
Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland,On the hills where the wind goes over sheep-bitten turf,Where the bent ...
Roadways (John Masefield Poems)
One road leads to London, One road leads to Wales,My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.One road leads ...
Laugh and be Merry (John Masefield Poems)
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,Better the world with a blow in the teeth of ...
A Pier-Head Chorus (John Masefield Poems)
Oh I'll be chewing salted horse and biting flinty bread,And dancing with the stars to watch, upon the fo'c's'le head,Hearkening ...
A Wanderer’s Song (John Masefield Poems)
A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels;I ...
Hell’s Pavement (John Masefield Poems)
"When I'm discharged at Liverpool 'n' draws my bit o' pay,I won't come to sea no more;I'll court a pretty ...
The Tewkesbury Road (John Masefield Poems)
It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where,Going through meadow and village, one ...
Sea Fever (John Masefield Poems)
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I ask is a ...