John Masefield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (1 Jun 1878 – 12 May 1967)

• “Ah, but Without there is no spirit scattering; …”
• “Ah, we are neither heaven nor earth, but men; …”
• “All Ye That Pass By”
• “And all their passionate hearts are dust …”
• “Animula”
• “A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent”
• “A Ballad of John Silver”
• “The Ballad of Sir Bors”
• “Beauty”
• “Beauty, let be; I cannot see your face …”
• “Beauty retires; the blood out of the earth …”
• “Beauty was with me once, but now, grown old …”
• “Being Her Friend”
• “Between the barren pasture and the wood …”
• “Bill”
• “Biography”
• “The Blacksmith”
• “The Blowing of the Horn”
• “Born for Nought Else”
• “The Builders”
• “Burial Party”
• “But all has passed, the tune has died away …”
• “C. L. M.”
• “Campeachy Picture”
• “Can it be blood and brain, this transient force …”
• “Cape Horn Gospel”
• “Captain Stratton’s Fancy”
• “Cardigan Bay”
• “Cargoes”
• “Cavalier”
• “Christmas, 1903”
• “Christmas Eve at Sea”
• “A Consecration”
• “A Creed”
• “D’Avalos’ Prayer”
• “Dawn”
• “The Dead Knight”
• “Death lies in wait for you, you wild thing in the wood …”
• “The Death Rooms”
• “The Dream”
• “Drop me the seed, that I even in my brain …”
• “The Emigrant”
• “The End”
• “The End of the Trouble”
• “An Epilogue”
• “Epilogue”
• “Even after all these years there comes the dream …”
• “Evening--Regatta Day”
• “The Eye and the Object”
• “Fever-Chills”
• “Fever Ship”
• “Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door …”
• “For, like an outcast from the city, I …”
• “Forget”
• “Fragments”
• “The Frontier”
• “The Galley-Rowers”
• “The Gentle Lady”
• “Go, spend your penny, Beauty, when you will …”
• “The Golden City of St. Mary”
• “Harbour-Bar”
• “The Harper’s Song”
• “The Haunted”
• “Hell’s Pavement”
• “Her Heart”
• “Here in the self is all that man can know …”
• “Here the legion halted, here the ranks were broken …”
• “Here, where we stood together, we three men …”
• “The Hounds of Hell”
• “How did the nothing come, how did these fires …”
• “A hundred years ago they quarried for the stone here; …”
• “I could not sleep for thinking of the sky …”
• “I saw her like a shadow on the sky …”
• “I went into the fields, but you were there …”
• “If all be governed by the moving stars …”
• “If Beauty be at all, if, beyond sense …”
• “If I could come again to that dear place …”
• “If I could get within this changing I …”
• “Ignorance”
• “Imagination”
• “In emptiest furthest heaven where no stars are …”
• “In Memory of A. P. R.”
• “Invocation”
• “Is it a sea on which the souls embark …”
• “The Island of Skyros”
• “It may be so; but let the unknown be …”
• “It may be so with us, that in the dark …”
• “June Twilight”
• “The Khalif’s Judgment”
• “The Kings go by with jewelled crowns; …”
• “Kneel to the beautiful women …”
• “Laugh and Be Merry”
• “The Lemmings”
• “Let that which is to come be as it may …”
• “London Town”
• “Long, long ago, when all the glittering earth …”
• “Look at the grass, sucked by the seed from dust …”
• “Lyrics from ‘The Buccaneer’”
• “Madman”
• “Man is a sacred city …”
• “Midnight”
• “Midsummer Night”
• “Mother Carey”
• “A Night at Dago Tom’s”
• “Night came again, but now I could not sleep; …”
• “Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland …”
• “No man takes the farm …”
• “Not for the anguish suffered is the slur …”
• “Not only blood and brain its servants are; …”
• “O little self, within whose smallness lies …”
• “O wretched man, that for a little mile …”
• “An Old Song Re-Sung”
• “On Eastnor Knoll”
• “On Growing Old”
• “On Malvern Hill”
• “One of the Bo’sun’s Yarns”
• “One of Wally’s Yarns”
• “Out of the clouds come torrents, from the earth …”
• “Out of the special cell's most special sense …”
• “Over the church's door they moved a stone …”
• “The Passing Strange”
• “Perhaps in chasms of the wasted past …”
• “Personal”
• “A Pier-Head Chorus”
• “Port of Holy Peter”
• “Port of Many Ships”
• “Posted as Missing”
• “Prologue”
• “The Racer”
• “Rest Her Soul, She’s Dead”
• “The Rider at the Gate”
• “Roadways”
• “Roses are beauty, but I never see …”
• “Sea-Change”
• “Sea-Fever”
• “The Seekers”
• “The Setting of the Windcock”
• “The Ship”
• “Sing a Song o’ Shipwreck”
• “So beauty comes, so with a failing hand …”
• “So I have known this life …”
• “So in the empty sky the stars appear …”
• “A Song at Parting”
• “Sorrow of Mydath”
• “Spanish Waters”
• “Spunyarn”
• “St. Mary’s Bells”
• “The Tarry Buccaneer”
• “Tewkesbury Road”
• “There is no God, as I was taught in youth …”
• “There, on the darkened deathbed, dies the brain …”
• “There was an evil in the nodding wood …”
• “These myriad days, these many thousand hours …”
• “They called that broken hedge The Haunted Gate …”
• “Third Mate”
• “This is the living thing that cannot stir …”
• “Though in life's streets the tempting shops have lured …”
• “To-morrow”
• “Trade Winds”
• “Truth”
• “The Turn of the Tide”
• “Twilight”
• “Up on the downs the red-eyed kestrels hover …”
• “Vagabond”
• “A Valediction”
• “A Valediction (Liverpool Docks)”
• “Vision”
• “A Wanderer’s Song”
• “Waste”
• “The Watch in the Wood”
• “We danced away care till the fiddler's eyes blinked …”
• “We Therefore Commit our Brother”
• “The West Wind”
• “What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt …”
• “What is this atom which contains the whole …”
• “What is this life which uses living cells …”
• “When all these million cells that are my slaves …”
• “When Bony Death”
• “Wherever beauty has been quick in clay …”
• “The Wild Duck”
• “The Woman Speaks”
• “The Word”
• “The Yarn of the Loch Achray”
• “You are more beautiful than women are …”
• “You are the link which binds us each to each …”
• “You are too beautiful for mortal eyes …”
• “You will remember me in days to come …”