John Masefield Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

  John Masefield

  Mother, Giving, Soul

  John Masefield, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Selected poems”, Carcanet Press

• And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

  John Masefield

  Baby, Children, Home

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

• In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.

  John Masefield

  Mother, Dark, Men

  'C.L.M.' (1910)

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