John Masefield's Poetry, by first line

• The Island of Skyros

  Here, where we stood together, we three men,
  Before the war had swept us to the East

  28 lines
• The Passing Strange

  Out of the earth to rest or range
  Perpetual in perpetual change,

  72 lines
• On Growing Old

  Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;
  My dog and I are old, too old for roving.

  28 lines
• On Eastnor Knoll

  Silent are the woods, and the dim green boughs are
  Hushed in the twilight: yonder, in the path through

  12 lines
• A Creed

  I hold that when a person dies
  His soul returns again to earth;

  42 lines, 2 comments
• Roadways

  One road leads to London,
  One road leads to Wales,

  24 lines
• Sonnet

  Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door,
  Gone down full many a midnight lane,

  14 lines
• Beauty

  I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills
  Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain:

  8 lines
• The Seekers

  Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth nor blessed abode,
  But the hope of the City of God at the other end of the road.

  18 lines
• Tewkesbury Road

  It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where,
  Going through meadow and village, one knows not whither or why;

  12 lines
• Night Is On The Downland

  Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland,
  On the hills where the wind goes over sheep-bitten turf,

  20 lines
• C.L.M.

  In the dark womb where I began
  My mother’s life made me a man.

  30 lines, 4 comments
• Lollingdon Downs VIII

  THE Kings go by with jewled crowns;
  Their horses gleam, their banners shake, their spears are many.

  32 lines
• The Everlasting Mercy

  Thy place is biggyd above the sterrys cleer,
  Noon erthely paleys wrouhte in so statly wyse,

  1691 lines
• The Lemmings

  Once in a hundred years the Lemmings come
  Westward, in search of food, over the snow;

  14 lines
• Sea Change

  "Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea
      They ain't no birds, not really", said Billy the Dane.

  18 lines
• Biography

      When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts
      Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts,

  286 lines
• By a Bier-Side

    This is a sacred city built of marvellous earth.
    Life was lived nobly here to give such beauty birth.

  8 lines
• Twilight

    Twilight it is, and the far woods are dim, and the rooks
        cry and call.

  12 lines
• A Wanderer's Song

  A wind's  in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,
  I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels;

  18 lines
• The Wanderer

  All day they loitered by the resting ships,
  Telling their beauties over, taking stock;

  308 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet II

  Forget all these, the barren fool in power,
  The madman in command, the jealous O,

  16 lines
• Dauber

  Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck,
  All work aboard was over for the hour,

  2092 lines
• Seven Poems

  Here in the self is all that man can know
  Of Beauty, all the wonder, all the power,

  122 lines
• An Epilogue

  I have seen flowers come in stony places
  And kind things done by men with ugly faces,

  3 lines
• Sea Fever

  I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
  And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,

  13 lines, 17 comments
• The Tarry Buccaneer

  I'm going to be a pirate with a bright brass pivot-gun,
  And an island in the Spanish Main beyond the setting sun,

  25 lines, 3 comments
• Trade Winds

  In the harbour, in the island, in the Spanish Seas,
  Are the tiny white houses and the orange-trees,

  13 lines, 1 comment
• The West Wind

  It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
  I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.

  28 lines, 65,535 comments
• Laugh and be Merry

  Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
  Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.

  19 lines, 65,535 comments

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