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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: masefield, john Matches Found: 229 Masefield, Charles John Beech 1 poems available by this author TWO JULYS First Line: I was so vague in 1914 Subject(s): July; Soldiers; World War I Masefield, John Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward 228 poems available by this author 534 Poem Text First Line: For ages you were rock, far below light Last Line: Of those who speed your launching come to be. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Queen Mary (ship); Sea; Unemployment; Recessions; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean A BALLAD OF JOHN SILVER Poem Text First Line: We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull Last Line: A little south the sunset in the islands of the blest. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping A CONSECRATION Poem Text First Line: Not of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Social Classes; Dead, The; Liberty; Caste A PRAYER FOR A BEGINNING REIGN Poem Text First Line: He who is order, beauty, power and glory Last Line: Over a kingdom worthy, the world's wonder. Subject(s): Beauty; Coronations; Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Prayer A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S MAJESTY Poem Text First Line: O god, whose mercy is our state Last Line: With wisdom that can never end. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Depressions, Economic; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Prayer; Religion; Recessions; Theology A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S REIGN Poem Text First Line: O god, the ruler over earth and sea Last Line: In this beginning reign may be fulfilled. Subject(s): Coronations; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Rulers; Peace; Prayer ALL YE THAT PASS BY First Line: On the long dusty ribbon of the city street ANOTHER CROSS Subject(s): Religion AT GALLIPOLI First Line: Ship after ship, crammed with soldiers, moved Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AT THE PASSING OF A BELOVED MONARCH Poem Text First Line: The everlasting wisdom has ordained Last Line: That millions yet unborn shall bless her reign. Subject(s): Crowns; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Memory; Prayer; War; Wisdom; British Empire; England - Empire AUGUST, 1914 First Line: How still this quiet cornfield is tonight Subject(s): England AUTUMN PLOUGHING First Line: After the ranks of stubble have lain bare Last Line: Before the blackbird pecks the scarlet hips BALLAD OF CAPE ST. VINCENT First Line: Now, bill, ain't it prime to be a-sailin' BALLAD OF SIR BORS First Line: Would I could win some quiet and rest, and a little ease BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Last Line: Are her voice, and her hair, and eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips. Subject(s): Beauty; Love BEING HER FRIEND BILL First Line: He lay dead on the cluttered deck and stared at the cold skies BIOGRAPHY First Line: When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts BIOGRAPHY, SELS. First Line: Other bright days of action have seemed great Last Line: And gives his work compassion and new eyes, %the days that make us happy make us wise BLACKSMITH First Line: The blacksmith in his sparky forge BOOK & BOOKPLATE First Line: This pookplate, that thou here seest put BORN FOR NOUGHT ELSE BURIAL PARTY First Line: He's deader 'n nails, the fo'c's'le said, 'n gone to his long sleep CAPE HORN GOSPEL: 1 First Line: I was in a hooker once, said karlssen CAPE HORN GOSPEL: 2 First Line: Jake was a dirty dago lad, an' he gave the skippier chin CAPTAIN STRATTON'S FANCY Poem Text First Line: Oh, some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white Last Line: Like an old bold mate of henry morgan. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Pirates; Wine; Piracy; Buccaneers CARDIGAN BAY First Line: Clean, green, windy billows notching out the sky CARGOES Poem Text First Line: Quinquireme of nineveh from distant ophir Last Line: Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. Subject(s): Sea; Shipbuilding; Ships & Shipping; Ocean CAVALIER First Line: All the merry kettle-drums are thudding into rhyme CENTRAL I; SONNET First Line: O little self, within whose smallness lies CHRISTMAS EVE AT SEA First Line: A wind is rustling south and soft CHRISTMAS, 1903 First Line: O, the sea breeze will be steady, and all the tall ship's going trim CREED First Line: I hold that when a person dies Subject(s): Faith; Religion CROWD First Line: They had secured their beauty to the dock Last Line: These twenty threadbare men with frost-bit ears %and canvas bags and little chests of gears D'AVALOS' PRAYER First Line: When the last sea is sailed, when the last shallow charted, Subject(s): Faith; Sea DAUBER First Line: Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck Subject(s): Sea DAWN First Line: The dawn comes cold: the haysack smokes DEAD KNIGHT First Line: The cleanly rush of the mountain air Last Line: The mournful word the seas say %when tides are wandering outor in Subject(s): Knights And Knighthood DEATH ROOMS First Line: My soul has many an old decaying room EAST COKER Poem Text First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song. Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S. EMIGRANT First Line: Going by daly's shanty I heard the boys within ENSLAVED, SELS. First Line: All early in the april, when daylight comes at five Subject(s): Love EPILOGUE First Line: I have seen flowers come in stony places Last Line: So I trust, too EPILOGUE TO THE EVERLASTING MERCY First Line: How swift the summer goes EVENING - REGATTA DAY First Line: Your nose is red jelly, your mouth's a toothless wreck EVERLASTING MERCY First Line: From '41 to '51 Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion FELLOW MORTAL First Line: I found a fox, caught by the leg Last Line: That gin went plonk into the pond FEVER SHIP First Line: There'll be no weepin' gells ashore when our ship sails FEVER-CHILLS First Line: He tottered out of the alleyway with cheeks the colour paste FOX AWAKES First Line: On old cold crendon's windy tops Last Line: And over the hedge and into ride %in ghost heath wood for his roving bride FOX HUNT First Line: From the gallows hill to the tineton copse Subject(s): Hunting FRAGMENTS Poem Text First Line: Troy town is covered up with weeds Last Line: An adam from the crumbled clay. FRONTIER First Line: Would god the route would come from home Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GALLEY ROWERS First Line: Staggering over the running combers GENTLE LADY First Line: So beautiful, so dainty-sweet GOLDEN CITY OF ST. MARY First Line: Out beyond the sunset, could I but find the way HARBOUR-BAR First Line: All in the feathered palm-trees tops the bright green parrots screech HARP First Line: In a dark corner of the room HARPER'S SONG First Line: This sweetness trembling from the strings HELL'S PAVEMENT First Line: When I'm discharged in liverpool 'n' draws my bit o' HER HEART First Line: Her heart is always doing lovely things I YARNED WITH ANCIENT SHIPMEN BESIDE THE GALLEY RANGE IGNORANCE First Line: Since I haved learned love's shining alphabet Subject(s): Love IN MEMORY OF A.P.R First Line: Once in the windy wintry weather INVOCATION First Line: O wanderer into many brains JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: All generous hearts lament the leader killed Last Line: The promise of his spirit be fulfilled. Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Lament; Presidents, United States; Dead, The JUNE TWILIGHT First Line: The twilight comes; the sun KING'S HIGHWAY First Line: A wonderful way is the king's highway Last Line: To the still more wonderful is to be %- runs the king's highway Subject(s): Religion LAUGH AND BE MERRY, REMEMBER, BETTER THE WORLD LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 1 First Line: So I have known this life LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 10 First Line: Can it be blood or touch its brain LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 11 First Line: Not only blood and brain its servants are LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 12 First Line: Drop me the seed, that I, even in my brain LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 13 First Line: Ah, but without there is no spirit scattering LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 14 First Line: You are too beautiful for mortal eyes LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 15 First Line: Is it a sea on which the souls embark Subject(s): Death LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 17 First Line: Night is on the downland, on the lovely moorland Last Line: And the night is full of the past Variant Title(s): Night On The Downlan LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 2 First Line: O wretched man, that, for a little mile LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 3 First Line: Out of the special cell's most special sense LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 4 First Line: You are the link which binds us each to each LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 5 First Line: I could not sleep for thinking of the sky Last Line: Night where my soul might sail a million years %in nothing, not even death, not even tears Variant Title(s): Sonne Subject(s): Sky LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 6 First Line: How did the nothing come, how did these fires LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 7 First Line: It may be so but let; the unknown be LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 9 First Line: What is this life which uses living cells LOLLINGDON DOWNS: SONNET Poem Text First Line: Ah, we are neither heaven nor earth, but men Last Line: For unborn men to look at and say 'hush.' LONDON TOWN First Line: Oh london town's a fine town LYRICS FROM THE BUCCANEER First Line: We are far from sight of the harbour lights MADMAN'S SONG First Line: You have not seen what I have seen Subject(s): Insanity MIDNIGHT First Line: The fox came up by stringer's pound MIDSUMMER NIGHT First Line: The perfect disc of the sacred moon MOTHER CAREY NIGHT AT DAGO TOM'S First Line: Oh yesterday, I t'ink it was, while cruisin' down the street NO MAN TAKES THE FARM, SELECTION OLD SONG RE-SUNG First Line: I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing, a-sailing ON EASTNOR KNOLL First Line: Silent are the woods, and the dim green boughs are Last Line: A land of shadows Subject(s): Evening ON GROWING OLD Poem Text Recitation First Line: Be with me, beauty, for the fire is dying Last Line: Even the night will blossom as the rose. Subject(s): Aging ON MALVERN HILL First Line: A wind is brushing down the clover Last Line: Quiet are the clan and chief, and quiet %centurion and signifer Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest ON THE PASSING OF KING GEORGE V Poem Text First Line: When time has sifted motives, passions, deeds Last Line: And ventured to a nobler marching word. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Memory; Prayer; Rest; Dead, The ON THE SETTING FORTH OF ... PRICESS ELIZABETH & THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH Poem Text First Line: What can we wish you that you have not won Last Line: And safe returning crown your journey done. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh (b. 1921); Travel; British Empire; England - Empire; Mountbatten, Philip; Journeys; Trips ONE OF THE BO'SUN'S YARNS First Line: Loafin' around in sailor town, a-bluin' o' my advance ONE OF WALLY'S YARNS First Line: The watch was up on the topsail-yard a-making fast the sail PARTRIDGES First Line: Here they lie mottled to the ground, unseen Last Line: The twilight hears and darkness hears them call PASSING STRANGE First Line: Out of the earth to rest or range Last Line: Our joy, a rampart to the mind Subject(s): Life Change Events PERSONAL First Line: Tramping at night in the cold and wet, I passed the lighted inn PIER-HEAD CHORUS First Line: Oh I'll be chewing salted horse and biting flinty bread PLOUGH First Line: The past was faded like a dream Subject(s): Labor And Laborers PORT OF HOLY PETER First Line: The blue laguna rocks and quivers PORT OF MANY SHIPS First Line: It's a sunny pleasant anchorage, is kingdom come Subject(s): Sea POSTED First Line: Dream after dream I see the wrecks that lie Last Line: Of live ships passing, nor the gannet's plunge POSTED AS MISSING First Line: Under all her topsails she trembled like a stag Last Line: Thinking of the sailor-men who sang among the crows, %hoisting of her topsails when she sailed so pr Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing RACER First Line: I saw the racer coming to the jump REST HER SOUL, SHE'S DEAD First Line: She has done with the sea's sorrow and all the world's way REYNARD THE FOX, SELS. RIDER AT THE GATE First Line: A windy night was blowing on rome Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.) RIGHT ROYAL, SELS. First Line: In a race-course box behind the stand RIVER First Line: All other waters have their time of peace ROADWAYS First Line: One road leads to london Last Line: God put me here to find Subject(s): Roads ROSAS First Line: There was an old lord in argentine ROSE OF THE WORLD First Line: Dark eleanor and henry sat at meat SEA-CHANGE Poem Text First Line: Goneys and gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-CHANGE First Line: Goneys and gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea Last Line: And coming the proud over all o' the birds o' the sea Subject(s): Sea SEA-FEVER Poem Text Recitation First Line: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky Last Line: And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SHIP First Line: Begore man's labouring wisdom gave me birth SHIPS First Line: I cannot tell their wonder nor make known SING A SONG O' SHIPWRECK First Line: He lolled on a bollard, a sun-burned son of the sea SONG First Line: One sunny time in may SONG AT PARTING First Line: The tick of the blood is settling, my heart will soon be still SONNET Poem Text First Line: Go, spend your penny, beauty, when you will Last Line: In the lover's kiss that makes the old couple's story. SONNET First Line: When all these million cells that are my slaves SONNET First Line: Thou in life's street's the tempting shops have lured SONNET First Line: The little robin hopping in the wood SONNET First Line: Not for your human beauty nor the power %to shake me by your voice oryour touc SONNET First Line: There was an evil in the nodding wood SONNET First Line: They called that broken hedge the haunted gate SONNET First Line: What are we given, what do we take away SONNET First Line: For, like an outcast from the city, I SONNET First Line: Perhaps in the chasms of the wasted past SONNET First Line: In emptiest furthest heaven where no stars are SONNET First Line: If all be governed by the moving stars SONNET First Line: So from the cruel cross they buried god SONNET First Line: Come to us fiery with the saints of god SONNET First Line: They took the bloody body from the cross SONNET First Line: You will remember me in days to come SONNET First Line: Time being an instant eternity %beauty above man's million years must see SONNET First Line: Each greedy self, by consecrating lust SONNET First Line: So beauty comes, so with a failing a hand SONNET First Line: Beauty was with me once, but now, grown old SONNET First Line: Not for the anguish suffered is the slur SONNET First Line: Out of the barracks to the castle yard %those roman soldiers came SONNET First Line: You are more beautiful than women are SONNET First Line: Wherever beauty has been quick in clay SONNET First Line: Beauty retires; the blood out of the earth SONNET First Line: Not that the stars are all gone mad heaven SONNET First Line: I saw her like a shadow on the sky SONNET First Line: Beauty, let be; I cannot see your face SONNET First Line: The other form of living does not stir SONNET First Line: How many ways, how many different times SONNET First Line: Restless and hungry, still it moves and slays SONNET First Line: There are two forms of life, of which one moves SONNET First Line: Over the church's door they moved a stone SONNET First Line: So in the bright empty sky the stars appear SONNET First Line: There, on the darkened deathbed, dies the brain SONNET First Line: These myriad days, these many thousand hours SONNET First Line: But all has passed, the tune has died away SONNET First Line: Men are made human to that dear place SONNET First Line: Long long ago, when all the glittering earth SONNET First Line: Night came again, but now I could not sleep SONNET First Line: Let that which is to come be as it may Subject(s): Death SONNET First Line: Even after all these years there comes ... Dream Subject(s): Death SONNET First Line: What is this atom which contains the whole SONNET First Line: It may be so with us, that in the dark Last Line: It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. %even if we cease, life is a miracle Variant Title(s): Life Is A Miracl Subject(s): Life SONNET First Line: If I could come again to that dear place Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses SONNET First Line: Man has his unseen friend, his unseen twin SONNET First Line: Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door Last Line: Or something that the things not understood %make for their uses out of flesh and blood SONNET First Line: Now they are gone with all their songs and sins SONNET First Line: Men are made human by the mighty fall SONNET First Line: I never see the red rose crown the year SONNET ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE First Line: That blessed sunlight that once showed to me SORROW OF MYDATH First Line: Weary the cry of the wind is, weary the sea SPANISH WATERS First Line: Spanish waters, spanish waters, you are ringing in my ears Last Line: By the loud surf of los muertos which is beating in my ears Subject(s): Treasures SPUNYARN ST. MARY'S BELLS First Line: It's pleasant in holy mary TEWKESBURY ROAD Poem Text First Line: It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where Last Line: At the noise of the lambs at play and the dear wild cry of the birds. Subject(s): Animals; Wandering & Wanderers THE CHOICE Poem Text First Line: The kings go by with jewelled crowns Last Line: Escape from prison. Variant Title(s): Lollingdon Downs: 8 Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Between the barren pasture and the wood Last Line: The dancing waters danced by dancing daffodils. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Friendship; Love; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; Childhood; Dead, The THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 2 Poem Text First Line: They buried gray; his gear was sold; his farm Last Line: She flung her down and cried I' the withered daffodils Subject(s): Love; Oaths; South America; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3 Poem Text First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4 Poem Text First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils. Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5 Poem Text First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 6 Poem Text First Line: The rider lingered at the fence a moment Last Line: While the brown brook ran on by buried daffodils. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Regret; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7 Poem Text First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ISLAND OF SKYROS; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Here, where we stood together, we three men Last Line: "war with this force, and breathe, and am its king." Subject(s): Skyros (island), Greece; World War I - Casualties THE LEMMINGS Poem Text First Line: Once in a hundred years the lemmings come Last Line: Westward, in search, to death, to nothingness. Subject(s): Lemmings; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE SEEKERS Poem Text First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE TARRY BUCCANEER Poem Text First Line: I'm going to be a pirate with a bright brass pivot-gun Last Line: Neer. Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers THE WEST WIND Poem Text First Line: It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries Last Line: In the fine land, the west land, the land where I belong. Subject(s): April; England; English THEY MARCHED OVER THE FIELD OF WATERLOO Last Line: They sailed with the free salt upon their lips %to sunlight from the tomb Subject(s): World War Ii THIRD MATE First Line: All the sheets are clacking, all the blocks are whining THY EVERLASTING MERCY, CHRIST First Line: Up the slow slope a team came bowing TO HIS MOTHER, C. L. M. First Line: In the dark womb where I began Last Line: O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed Variant Title(s): C. L. M Subject(s): Courage; Mothers TO RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text First Line: Your very heart was england's; it is just Last Line: That england's very heart should keep your dust. Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) TO THE SEAMEN First Line: You seamen, I have eaten your hard bread Last Line: And ships will dip their colours in salute %to you, henceforth, when passing zuydecoote Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; World War Ii TOMORROW First Line: Oh yesterday the cutting edge drank thirstily and deep TRADE WINDS First Line: In the harbour, in the island, in the spanish seas TRAGEDY OF POMPEY THE GREAT, SELS. TREE First Line: This is the living thing that cannot stir TRUTH First Line: Man with his burning soul %has but an hour of breath Last Line: The ship my striving made %may see night fade Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion TURN OF THE TIDE First Line: An' bill can have my sea-boots, nigger jim can have my knife TWA BROTHERS First Line: There were twa brethren in the north Last Line: And home shall never come TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Twilight it is, and the far woods are dim, and the Last Line: Beautiful souls who were gentle when I was a child. Subject(s): Friendship UNEXPLORED, UNCONQUERED; SONNET First Line: Out of the clouds come torrents, from the earth UP ON THE DOWNS First Line: Up on the downs the red-eyes kestrels hover Last Line: On the chalk downland bare Subject(s): Environment; Fields VAGABOND First Line: Dunno a heap about the what an' why VALEDICTION First Line: We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow VALEDICTION First Line: You can take 'n' tell nan I'm goin' about the world agen VALEDICTION (LIVERPOOL DOCKS) First Line: Is there anything I can do ashore for you VISION First Line: I have drunken the red wine and flung the dice WANDERER First Line: All day they loitered by the resting ships WANDERER'S SONG First Line: A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels WASTE First Line: No rose but fades: no glory but must pass WATCH IN THE WOOD First Line: When death has laid her in his quietude WATCHING BY A SICK-BED First Line: I heard the wind all day WHEN BONY DEATH HAS CHILLED HER GENTLE BODY WIDOW IN THE BYE STREET First Line: Down bye street, in a little shropshire town WILD DUCK First Line: Twilight. Red in the west Subject(s): Ducks WOOD-PIGEONS First Line: Often the woodman scares them as he comes Subject(s): Pigeons WORD First Line: My friend, my bonny friend, when we are old YARN OF THE LOCH ACHRAY First Line: The loch achray was a clipper tall |
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