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John Masefield
1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967
Poetry Listing
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| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Ballad Of John Silver | We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull, | | 24 | 4274 | | 2: | A Creed | I hold that when a person dies | | | 1318 | | 3: | A Night At Dago Tom's | Oh yesterday, I t'ink it was, while cruisin' down the street, | | | 1139 | | 4: | A Pier-Head Chorus | Oh I'll be chewing salted horse and biting flinty bread, | | | 1155 | | 5: | A Valediction | We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow, | | | 1200 | | 6: | A Wanderer's Song | A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels, | | | 1377 | | 7: | An Epilogue | I had seen flowers come in stony places | | | 1329 | | 8: | Beauty | I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills | | | 1017 | | 9: | Biography | When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts | | | 959 | | 10: | C.L.M. | In the dark womb where I began | | | 1085 | | 11: | Captain Stratton's Fancy | Oh some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white, | | | 1012 | | 12: | Cargoes | Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, | | | 1095 | | 13: | Dauber | Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck, | | | 950 | | 14: | Fragments | Troy Town is covered up with weeds, | | | 1166 | | 15: | Hell's Pavement | When I’m discharged at Liverpool ‘n’ draws my bit o’ pay, | | | 1151 | | 16: | Laugh And Be Merry | Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song, | | | 3856 | | 17: | Lollingdon Downs VIII | The Kings go by with jewled crowns; | | | 1238 | | 18: | Mother Carey (As Told Me By The Bo'sun) | Mother Carey? She's the mother o' the witches | | | 1193 | | 19: | Night Is On The Downland | Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland, | | | 1162 | | 20: | On Eastnor Knoll | Silent are the woods, and the dim green boughs are | | | 1124 | | 21: | On Growing Old | Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying; | | | 1134 | | 22: | Renyard the Fox - Part 1 | The meet was at "The Cock and Pye | | | 1069 | | 23: | Renyard The Fox - Part 2 | On old Cold Crendon's windy tops | | | 1149 | | 24: | Roadways | One road leads to London, | | | 1116 | | 25: | Sea Change | Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea | | | 1058 | | 26: | Sea Fever | I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, | | | 1176 | | 27: | Seven Poems From 'Lollingdon Downs' | Here in the self is all that man can know | | | 1063 | | 28: | Sonnet | Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door, | | | 896 | | 29: | Tewkesbury Road | It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where, | | | 1011 | | 30: | The Everlasting Mercy | Thy place is biggyd above the sterrys cleer, | | | 992 | | 31: | The Golden City Of St. Mary | Out beyond the sunset could I but find the way, | | | 981 | | 32: | The Island Of Skyros | Here, where we stood together, we three men, | | | 1004 | | 33: | The Lemmings | Once in a hundred years the Lemmings come | | | 1067 | | 34: | The Passing Strange | Out of the earth to rest or range | | | 1170 | | 35: | The Seekers | Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth nor blessed abode, | | | 1260 | | 36: | The Wanderer | All day they loitered by the resting ships, | | | 1329 | | 37: | The West Wind | It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; | | | 1257 | | 38: | The Wild Duck | Twilight. Red in the West. | | | 1259 | | 39: | The Yarn Of The Loch Achray | The Loch Achray was a clipper tall | | | 1142 | | 40: | Trade Winds | In the harbor, in the island, in the Spanish Seas, | | | 1148 |
About:
John Edward Masefield, OM, (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967), was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967.
He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, two novels "Captain Margaret" and "Multitude and Solitude" and a great deal of memorable poetry, including "The Everlasting Mercy", and "Sea-Fever", from his anthology Saltwater Ballads.
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