Quotes by John Masefield

John Masefield

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

Sailing

Sea

Stars

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

And Love

Done

Fate

All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King’s pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

Kings

Life

Taken

And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven’s street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

Baby

Children

Home

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

May

Pages

Taverns

But he has gone, A nation’s memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

Gone

Memories

Morning

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

People

Suffering

Tragedy

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

Death

Dies

Doors

Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely white unwritten book; A book that God will take, my friend, As each goes out at journey’s end.

Book

Children

Jesus

From ’41 to ’51I was my folk’s contrary son;I bit my father’s hand right throughAnd broke my mother’s heart in two.

Father

Heart

Mother

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April

Art

Baby

Battle

Beautiful

Bird

Blue

Book

Broken

Cells

Children

Common Sense

Community

Corn

Dark

Dawn

Death

Defeated

Design

Dies

Done

Doors

Dream

Eye

Faces

Fate

Father

Feet

Finding Yourself

Fire

Flower

Gangsters

Generosity

Giving

God

Gone

Government

Great Change

Growth

Happiness

Has Beens

Hate

Headache

Heart

Heaven

Home

Horse

Ignorance

Imagination

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Quotes by John Masefield

John Masefield

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King’s pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven’s street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

But he has gone, A nation’s memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely white unwritten book; A book that God will take, my friend, As each goes out at journey’s end.

From ’41 to ’51I was my folk’s contrary son;I bit my father’s hand right throughAnd broke my mother’s heart in two.

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