Frases de John Masefield
John Masefield
Data de nascimento: 1. Junho 1878
Data de falecimento: 12. Maio 1967
John Masefield foi um poeta inglês.
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dramaturgo e poeta inglês
Citações 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
King Cole and Other Poems (1926), " The Rider at the Gate http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1251.html"
„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.“
— John Masefield
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Trade Winds"
„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“
— John Masefield
Ballads and Poems (1910), "Spanish Waters"
„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.“
— John Masefield
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Sea-Fever", 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".
„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
The Everlasting Mercy (1919), Opening lines
„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.“
— John Masefield
Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"
„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.“
— John Masefield
Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"
„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?“
— John Masefield
" Where does the uttered Music go? http://www.williamwalton.net/works/choral/where_does_the_uttered_music_go.html" (1946)
„My blood did leap, my flesh did revel,
Saul Kane was tokened to the devil.“
— John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy
The Everlasting Mercy (1919)
