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John Masefield's Poetry, by title

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  • A Ballad of John Silver
    We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull,
    And we flew the pretty colours of the cross-bones and the skull;
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • A Creed
    I hold that when a person dies
    His soul returns again to earth;
    42 lines, 2 comments
  • A Night At Dago Tom's
    Oh yesterday, I t'ink it was, while cruisin' down the street,
    I met with Bill. — "Hullo," he says, "let's give the girls a tre
    24 lines
  • A Pier-Head Chorus
    Oh I'll be chewing salted horse and biting flinty bread,
    And dancing with the stars to watch, upon the fo'c's'le head,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • A Valediction
    We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,
    It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to go;
    21 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
  • An Epilogue
    I have seen flowers come in stony places
    And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
    3 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
  • 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
  • C.L.M.
    In the dark womb where I began
    My mother’s life made me a man.
    30 lines, 4 comments
  • Captain Stratton’s Fancy
    Oh some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white,
    And some are all for dancing by the pale moonlight:
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • Cargoes
    Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
    Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
    16 lines, 26 comments
  • Dauber
    Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck,
    All work aboard was over for the hour,
    2092 lines
  • Fragments
    Troy Town is covered up with weeds,
    The rabbits and the pismires brood
    83 lines
  • Hell's Pavement
    “When I’m discharged at Liverpool ‘n’ draws my bit o’ pay,
    I won’t come to sea no more;
    19 lines, 2 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
  • Lollingdon Downs VIII
    THE Kings go by with jewled crowns;
    Their horses gleam, their banners shake, their spears are many.
    32 lines
  • Mother Carey (As told Me by the Bo'sun)
    Mother Carey? She's the mother o' the witches
    'N' all them sort o' rips;
    34 lines, 2 comments
  • 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
  • On Eastnor Knoll
    Silent are the woods, and the dim green boughs are
    Hushed in the twilight: yonder, in the path through
    12 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
  • One of the Bo'sun's Yarns
    Loafin' around in Sailor Town, a-bluin' o' my advance,
    I met a derelict donkyman who led me a merry dance,
    68 lines
  • Reynard the Fox - Part 1
    The meet was at "The Cock and Pye
    By Charles and Martha Enderby,"
    1372 lines
  • Reynard The Fox - Part 2
    On old Cold Crendon's windy tops
    Grows wintrily Blown Hilcote Copse,
    1517 lines
  • Roadways
    One road leads to London,
    One road leads to Wales,
    24 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
  • 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
  • Seven Poems
    Here in the self is all that man can know
    Of Beauty, all the wonder, all the power,
    122 lines
  • Sonnet
    Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door,
    Gone down full many a midnight lane,
    14 lines
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