John Masefield Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• Man cannot call the brimming instant back;
  Time's an affair of instants spun to days;
  If man must make an instant gold, or black,
  Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways.
  Life may be duller for an instant's blaze.
  Life's an affair of instants spun to years,
  Instants are only cause of all these tears.

  John Masefield

  Life, Men, Years

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

• I have seen flowers come in stony places
  And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
  And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
  So I trust, too.

  John Masefield

  Horse, Flower, Men

  John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited

• So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
  In this long war beneath the stars;
  So shall a glory wreathe my head,
  So shall I faint and show the scars,
  Until this case, this clogging mould,
  Be smithied all to kingly gold.

  John Masefield

  Stars, War, Struggle

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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