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Selected Poems By John Masefield
Selected Poems from The Indian Love Lyrics of Laurence Hope. F’cap 8vo. Cloth, 5s.; leather, 7s. 6d.
Selections from Swinburne, edited by Edmund Gosse, C.B., and T. J. Wise. Cr. 8vo. 6s. net.
The Works of Swinburne, Golden Pine Edition. In 6 vols. F’cap 8vo. Cloth, 4s.; leather, 6s. each.
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, LTD.
(W. Strang Jan 1912 John Masefield.)
Selected Poems
By John Masefield
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, LTD. Printed in Great Britain. TO MY WIFE
CONTENTS
PAGE
From Salt Water Ballads—
Trade Winds1
Sea-fever2
Prayer3
The West Wind4
From Poems and Ballads—
Cargoes5
An Old Song Re-sung6
Twilight7
Invocation8
A Creed8
When Bony Death10
The Death Rooms10
C. L. M.11
Waste12
The Wild Duck13
From Pompey the Great—
Chorus14
Epilogue15
From The Everlasting Mercy—
The Scallenge16
Epilogue18
From The Widow in the Bye Street—
The End19
From Dauber—
The Setting of the Watch22
The Watch Below23
The Horn26
The South-west Wind29
We therefore commit our Brother33
From Philip the King—
The Messenger’s Speech63
Truth76
The “Wanderer”77
August, 191488
Biography91
Ships104
Sonnet on the Death of his Wife108
They closed her Eyes109
From Good Friday—
The Madman Speaks113
From Lollingdon Downs—
Sonnets117
From Gallipoli—
Epilogue136
From Enslaved—
Prologue152
The End154
The Hounds of Hell162
Animula186
Forget193
On Growing Old194
From Esther—
Choruses205
Act II209
The books from which these selections are taken are published by the following firms, to whom the author makes the usual acknowledgments:—
Salt Water BalladsMessrs. Elkin Mathews, Ltd.
Poems and Ballads””
Pompey the GreatMessrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.
The Everlasting Mercy””
The Widow in the Bye Street” ”
DauberMessrs. William Heinemann, Ltd.
The Daffodil Fields” ”
Philip the King” ”
Gallipoli” ”
Good Friday” ”
Lollingdon Downs” ”
Reynard the Fox” ”
Enslaved” ”
Right Royal” ”
Esther” ”