John Masefield Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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• Lord, give to me who are old and rougher
  The things that little children suffer,
  And let keep bright and undefiled
  The young years of the little child.

  John Masefield

  Children, Years, Giving

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

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• It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

  John Masefield

  Home, Sick, Navy

  "Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont".

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• Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

  John Masefield

  Common Sense, Poetry, Mixtures

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• I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

  John Masefield

  Running, Sea, Sailing

  "Sea Fever" l. 5 (1902)

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• Love is a flame to burn out human wills,
  Love is a flame to set the will on fire,
  Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

  John Masefield

  Life, Love Is, Men

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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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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• So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

  John Masefield

  Beautiful, Wise, Kings

  John Masefield, Margaret Bridges, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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• Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

  John Masefield

  Weather, Two, Sailing

  "A Tarpaulin Muster".

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• From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

  John Masefield

  Mother, Father, Heart

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

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• But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

  John Masefield

  Morning, Memories, Gone

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• 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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• When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted,
  When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored,
  When the last fire is out and the last guest departed
  Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.

  John Masefield

  Death, Prayer, Fire

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

  John Masefield

  Heart, Rivers, London

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• The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

  John Masefield

  Men, Soul, Corn

  'The Everlasting Mercy' (1911) st. 86

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• When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
  When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

  John Masefield

  Death, Doors, Waiting

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

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• What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

  John Masefield

  Life, Work, Cells

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• Each one could be a Jesus mild,
  Each one has been a little child,
  A little child with laughing look,
  A lovely white unwritten book;
  A book that God will take, my friend,
  As each goes out at journey's end.

  John Masefield

  Jesus, Children, Book

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

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• The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven
  Takes that as thanks for all He's given.
  The book he lent is given back
  All blotted red and smutted black.

  John Masefield

  God, Book, Heaven

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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