Frases de John Masefield
John Masefield
Data de nascimento: 1. Junho 1878
Data de falecimento: 12. Maio 1967
John Masefield foi um poeta inglês.
Citações John Masefield
„What have I done, or tried, or said
In thanks to that dear woman dead?
Men triumph over women still,
Men trample women's rights at will,
And man's lust roves the world untamed.
* * * *
O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed.“
Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"
„I must down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.“
The first line is often misquoted as "I must go down to the seas again." and this is the wording used in the song setting by John Ireland. I disagree with this last point. The poet himself was recorded reading this and he definitely says "seas". The first line should read, 'I must down ...' not, 'I must go down ...' The original version of 1902 reads 'I must down to the seas again'. In later versions, the author inserted the word 'go'.
Source: https://poemanalysis.com/sea-fever-john-masefield-poem-analysis/
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Sea-Fever"
„My blood did leap, my flesh did revel,
Saul Kane was tokened to the devil.“
— John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy
The Everlasting Mercy (1919)
„What is this creature, Music, save the Art,
The Rhythm that the planets journey by?
The living Sun-Ray entering the heart,
Touching the Life with that which cannot die?“
" Where does the uttered Music go? http://www.williamwalton.net/works/choral/where_does_the_uttered_music_go.html" (1946)
„In the dark womb 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.“
Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"
„From '41 to '51
I was my folk's contrary son;
I bit my father's hand right through
And broke my mother's heart in two.“
— John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy
Opening lines
The Everlasting Mercy (1919)
„And in the ghostly palm-trees the sleepy tune
Of the quiet voice calling me, the long low croon
Of the steady Trade Winds blowing.“
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Trade Winds"
„I, who am dead, have ways of knowing
Of the crop of death that the quick are sowing.
I, who was Pompey, cry it aloud
From the dark of death, from the wind blowing.
I, who was Pompey, once was proud,
Now I lie in the sand without a shroud;
I cry to Caesar out of my pain,
"Caesar beware, your death is vowed."“
King Cole and Other Poems (1926), " The Rider at the Gate http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1251.html"