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… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt,… — John Masefield Copy Share
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. — John Masefield Copy Share
I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. — John Masefield Copy Share
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… — John Masefield Copy Share
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/To… — John Masefield Copy Share
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood,… — John Masefield Copy Share
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road… — John Masefield Copy Share
Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing. — John Masefield Copy Share
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the… — John Masefield Copy Share
When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last… — John Masefield Copy Share
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go. — John Masefield Copy Share
God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the… — John Masefield Copy Share
State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by… — John Masefield Copy Share
