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 ...
Where e'er the fetter has been broken, Where e'er the bondsman has been freed,Where e'er a sentence has been spoken In behalf ...
II am a child of the valley.Mud and muck and misery of lowlandsare on thin tracks of my feet.Damp draughts ...
Dimly and dumbly under the ground,Groping the walls of their prison round,The roots of the aged and garrulous treesAre sending ...
Down here where the ships loom large in The gloom when the sea-storms veer,Down here on the south-west margin Of the western ...
Up and down in my garden fair,Under the trellis where grapes will bloom,With the breath of violets in the air,As ...
I have pined for the sight of the sea for years-Pined amid hoping, and wished amid fears;And my heart grew ...
Where the ragged, snow-capped saw tooth Cuts the azure of the skyAnd watches o'er the lonely land As ages wander by;Where the ...
The earth was young, the world was fair,And balmy breezes filled the air,Nature reposed in solitude,When God pronounced it "very ...
In my loggia bright I watch to-nightThe full moon sailing by;From a crystal creek in a glaciered peakIt slipped to ...
Stately boats, with happy crowds, Passing up the lake,Leaving, under sunset clouds, Jewels in your wake,From my garden's sheltered strand I can watch ...
All the lights have been extinguishedIn my closely-curtained room,Nothing now can be distinguishedIn the all-pervading gloom;And through darkness, so alluring,I ...
Snow-capped mountain, so white, so tall,The whole seaMust stand behind you!Snow-capped mountain, with the wind on your forehead,Do you hold ...
THE RIVAL SUITORSWainamoinen, old and truthful,Long considered, long debated,How to woo and win the daughterOf the hostess of Pohyola,How to ...
THE FROST-FIEND.Lemminkainen, reckless minstrel,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,Hastens as the dawn is breaking,At the dawning of the morning,To the resting-place of vessels,To ...
DEATH OF LEMMINKAINEN.Lemminkainen, much disheartened,Deeply thought and long considered,What to do, what course to follow,Whether best to leave the wild-mooseIn ...
LEMMINIKAINEN'S SECOND WOOING.Spake the ancient LemminkainenTo the hostess of Pohyola:"Give to me thy lovely daughter,Bring me now thy winsome maiden,Bring ...
Here is a tale of the Rockies,And of Rockies I know quite a few;There's the mint rock, the flint rock, ...
Purged, with the life they left, of allThat makes life paltry and mean and small,In their new dedication chargedWith something ...
Give me the strength Of verdant hills Washed clean by summer rain; Of purple hills At peace when weary Day ...
Purged, with the life they left, of all That makes life paltry and mean and small, In their new dedication ...
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