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• My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

  John Masefield

  White, Sail, Leading Me

  John Masefield (1946). “Poems”

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• 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

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• Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.

  John Masefield

  Blue, Sky, Heaven

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

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  Wind, Bird, West

  John Masefield (1913). “Salt-water Ballads”

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• I have seen the Lady April bringing
  the daffodils,
  Bringing the springing grass and the
  soft warm April rain.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Rain, April

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• It may be that we cease; we cannot tell.
  Even if we cease, life is a miracle.

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  Miracle, May, Life Is

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Flower, Heart

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

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• Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

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  Truth, Men, Sea

  John Masefield (1946). “Poems”

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• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

  John Masefield

  Men, Poetry, Community

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• Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

  John Masefield

  Death, Doors, Dies

  'Pompey The Great' (1910) act 2

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• Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

  John Masefield

  Travel, Stars, Rain

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

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• Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

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  People, Suffering, Tragedy

  John Masefield (1923). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield”

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• All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

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  Fate, And Love, Done

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

  John Masefield

  Long Distance Relationship, Soul, Longing

  John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright

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• Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

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  Strong, Battle, Defeated

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

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• On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street,
  The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet,
  With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea
  And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

  John Masefield

  Life, Song, Feet

  John Masefield (1913). “Salt-water Ballads”

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

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  Sunset, Dawn, Spain

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• His face was filled with broken commandments.

  John Masefield

  Sarcastic, Broken, Faces

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• Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

  John Masefield

  Wine

  Ballads (1903) "Captain Stratton's Fancy"

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• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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• All ye that pass by!
  While we least think it he prepares his Mate.
  Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases,
  Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

  John Masefield

  Life, Kings, Taken

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• In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

  John Masefield

  Life, Laughter, Laughing

  Widow in Bye Street (1912) ch. 4, p. 66

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• It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

  John Masefield

  Pistols, Gangsters, Ought

  John Masefield (2011). “The Box of Delights”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

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  Journey, Men, Finding Yourself

  John Masefield (1946). “Poems”

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• State are not made, nor patched; they grow;
  Grow slow through centuries of pain,
  And grow correctly in the main;
  But only grow by certain laws,
  Of certain bits in certain jaws.

  John Masefield

  Pain, Government, Law

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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