Frases de John Masefield

— John Masefield
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".

„Will you not come home, brother? you have been long away,
It's April, and blossom time, and white is the spray;
And bright is the sun, brother, and warm is the rain, -
Will you not come home, brother, home to us again?“

— John Masefield

„Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French,
And some’ll swallow tay and stuff fit only for a wench;
But I’m for right Jamaica till I roll beneath the bench,
Says the old bold mate of Henry Morgan.“

— John Masefield

„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."“

— John Masefield

Aniversários de hoje

Gustave Flaubert111

1821 - 1880

Og Mandino4

1923 - 1996

Robert Browning23

1812 - 1889

José de Alencar44

1829 - 1877

Outros 22 aniversários hoje

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Fernando Pessoa990

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Robert Browning23

Edward Bulwer-Lytton15

William Shakespeare608

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Frases de John Masefield

John Masefield

Citações John Masefield

„The days that make us happy make us wise.“

„Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.“

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

„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.“

„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.“

„My blood did leap, my flesh did revel,
Saul Kane was tokened to the devil.“

„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?“

„It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
And April's in the west wind, and daffodils.“

„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.“

„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.“

„The moon came white and ghostly as we laid the treasure down,
There was gear there’d make a beggarman as rich as Lima Town,
Copper charms and silver trinkets from the chests of Spanish crews,
Gold doubloons and double moidores, louis d’ors and portagues“

„Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.“

„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.“

„Will you not come home, brother? you have been long away,
It's April, and blossom time, and white is the spray;
And bright is the sun, brother, and warm is the rain, -
Will you not come home, brother, home to us again?“

„Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French,
And some’ll swallow tay and stuff fit only for a wench;
But I’m for right Jamaica till I roll beneath the bench,
Says the old bold mate of Henry Morgan.“

Aniversários de hoje

Gustave Flaubert111

Og Mandino4

Robert Browning23

José de Alencar44

Autores parecidos

Fernando Pessoa990

Robert Browning23

Edward Bulwer-Lytton15

William Shakespeare608

John Milton23

John Donne8

George Santayana27

Thomas Stearns Eliot27

Thomas Hardy9

John Ruskin32