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 ...
When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts, And long before this ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;A lad quite ignorant ...
My mother stands at the screen door, laughing."Out out damn Spot," she commands our silly dog.I wonder what this means. ...
You're now, Eliza, fix'd for life;In other words, you're now -- a wife;And let me whisper in your ear,A wife, ...
'Attention please! Attention please!Don't dare to talk! Don't dare to sneeze!Don't doze or daydream! Stay awake!Your health, your very life's ...
All kinds of songs I've heard folks sing, Of things in every nation; Of Queen's Road swells, and Clarehall belles, And every new ...
One day in the Tuileries,When a southwest Spanish breezeBrought scandalous news of the Queen,The fair proud Empress said,"My good friend ...
I've just been elected to Parliament,At Westminster I'm the big cheese,I'm also a Knight of the Garter, it's right In ...
yes, they begin out in a willow, I think the starch mountains begin out in the willow and keep right ...
She made roses all the day for pretty ladies' wear, All through the patient hours, half into the night. Dragged ...
Mrs Dibbs, the washerwoman, coming down the street,Shabby old "elastic-sides" on her funny feet As she toddles by the pub, ...
His Honor walked into the shop -- For of shopping his Honor was fond.Did she blush? Did her eyes indicate ...
Where are you bound for, Sailorman, sailormanWith the missis and the dog And your big spreets'l flopping?"Maldon, Manningtree,West ...
(With Apologies)HOW dear to my heart is the bank roll departed,The five-spots and tens in the strong rubber band,The yellow ...
SHE wanted to be asked again,And so she wiped the dishes,She took a knife, and with the menShe helped to ...
An arrowhead of birds heading South.On a Greyhound bus, field workershuddle at the rear and lip-synchto their shiny radios.^At the ...
Cherry-ripe: dark sweet burlats, scarlet reverchons firm-fleshed and tart in the mouth bigarreaux, peach-and-white napoléons as the harvest moves north ...
Though my mother was already two years dead Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas, put hot water bottles ...
To wed, or not to wed; that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The bills ...
Let go of the shopping racing about center on Christ the source of all love Stand in His presence feeling ...
Let go of the shopping the running about center on Christ feel his love Stand in His presence feeling our ...
The bright lights and tinsel the flashing sale prices lulling us to slumber the opiate of shopping as if this ...
We got up a little later than normal, sleeping in on a cloudy Saturday A knock at the door, help ...
There were seven items on the shopping list, two more than she had told me to buy Seven items, a ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
At first she was sure it was just a bit of dried strawberry juice, or a fleck of her mother's ...
Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy, White o'er the playpen the sheen of her dress, Fresh from the bathroom ...
From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals, ...
Shell-shocked from Korea A grenade that left him The platoon's only survivor, Put him in Stanley Royd For thirty years. ...
We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here To take up Lord Tennyson's mission. 'Tis pleasant to find ...
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