Author:John Masefield

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John Masefield (1878–1967)

See biography, media, quotes. An English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poems 1.1.1 Salt Water Ballads (1902) 1.1.2 Ballads and Poems (1910) 1.1.3 Lyrics from The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1910) 1.1.4 Four longer poems 1.1.5 Philip the King, and Other Poems (1914) 1.1.6 Lollington Downs, and Other Poems 1.1.7 Later poems 1.2 Novels and Short Stories 1.3 Plays 1.4 Children's Books 1.5 Non-fiction 2 Works about John Masefield 3 Transcription projects

[edit] Works

[edit] Poems

[edit] Salt Water Ballads (1902)

• A Consecration
• The Yarn of the Loch Achray
• Sing a Song o' Shipwreck
• Burial-Party
• Bill
• Fever Ship
• Fever-Chills
• One of the Bo'sun's Yarns
• Hell's Pavement
• Sea-Change
• Harbour-Bar
• The Turn of the Tide
• One of Wally's Yarns
• A Valediction (Liverpool Docks)
• A Night at Dago Tom's
• Port of Many Ships
• Cape Horn Gospel-I
• Cape Horn Gospel-II
• Mother Carey
• Evening - Regatta Day
• A Valediction
• A Pier-Head Chorus
• The Golden City of St. Mary
• Trade Winds
• Sea-Fever
• A Wanderer's Song
• Cardigan Bay
• Christmas Eve at Sea
• A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent
• The Tarry Buccaneer
• A Ballad of John Silver
• Lyrics from "The Buccaneer"
• D'Avalos' Prayer
• The West Wind
• The Galley-Rowers
• Sorrow of Mydath
• Vagabond
• Vision
• Spunyarn
• The Dead Knight
• Personal
• On Malvern Hill
• Tewkesbury Road
• On Eastnor Knoll
• Rest her Soul, she's dead
• All ye that pass by
• In Memory of A. P. R.
• To-morrow
• Cavalier
• A Song at Parting

[edit] Ballads and Poems (1910)

• The Ballad of Sir Bors
• Spanish Waters
• Cargoes
• Captain Stratton's Fancy
• An Old Song Re-sung
• St. Mary's Bells
• London Town
• The Emigrant
• Port of Holy Peter
• Beauty
• The Seekers
• Dawn
• Laugh and be Merry
• June Twilight
• Roadways
• Midsummer Night
• The Harper's Song
• The Gentle Lady
• Twilight
• Invocation
• Posted as Missing
• A Creed
• When Bony Death
• Her Heart
• Being her Friend
• Fragments
• Born for Nought Else
• The Death Rooms
• Ignorance
• The Watch in the Wood
• C. L. M.
• Waste
• Third Mate
• The Wild Duck
• Imagination
• Christmas, 1903
• The Word

[edit] Lyrics from The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1910)

• The Chief Centurions
• Philip Sings
• Chantey

[edit] Four longer poems

• The Everlasting Mercy (1911)
• The Widow in the Bye-Street (1912)
• Dauber (1913)
  • Glossary for Dauber
• The Daffodil Fields (1913)

[edit] Philip the King, and Other Poems (1914)

• Philip the King
• Truth
• The Wanderer
• August, 1914
• Biography
• Song
• Ships
• Sonnet from the Spanish
• Sonnet on the Death of his Wife
• They Closed her Eyes
• The River
• Watching by a Sick-Bed

[edit] Lollington Downs, and Other Poems

• Lollington Downs I
• Lollington Downs II
• Lollington Downs III
• Lollington Downs IV
• Lollington Downs V
• Lollington Downs VI
• Lollington Downs VII
• Lollington Downs VIII
• Lollington Downs IX
• Lollington Downs X
• Lollington Downs XI
• Lollington Downs XII
• Lollington Downs XIII
• Lollington Downs XIV
• Lollington Downs XV
• Lollington Downs XVI: The Ship
• Lollington Downs XVII: The Blacksmith
• Lollington Downs XVIII: The Frontier
• Lollington Downs XIX: Night is on the Downland
• Lollington Downs XX: Midnight
• Lollington Downs XXI: Up on the Downs
• Lollington Downs XXII: No Man takes the Farm
• Lollington Downs XXIII: A Hundred Years Ago
• Lollington Downs XXIV: Here the Legion Halted
• Lollington Downs XXV: We Danced away Care
• Lollington Downs XXVI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXVII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXVIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXIX: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXX: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXIV: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXV: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXVI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXVII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXVIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XXXIX: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XL: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XLI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XLII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XLIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XLIV: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XLV
• Lollington Downs XLVI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XLVII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XLVIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs XLIX: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs L: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LIV: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LV: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LVI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LVII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LVIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LIX: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LX: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXIV
• Lollington Downs LXV: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXVI: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXVII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXVIII: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXIX: Sonnet
• Lollington Downs LXX: Sonnet

[edit] Later poems

• Rosas
• Reynard The Fox Part I (1919)
• Reynard The Fox Part II (1919)
• Enslaved, and Other Poems
• Right Royal
• King Cole, and Other Poems
• Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse
• Minnie Maylow’s Story (1931)
• A Tale of Troy
• A Letter from Pontus and Other Verse
• Some Verses to Some Germans
• Gautama the Enlightened
• Wonderings
• Pavilastukay
• Where does the uttered Music go? (1946)

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

[edit] Novels and Short Stories

• A Mainsail Haul (1905)
• Captain Margaret (1908)
• Multitude and Solitude (1909)
• Martin Hyde: The Duke’s Messenger (1910)
• Lost Endeavour (1910)
• The Street of Today (1911)
• Jim Davis (1911)
• Sard Harker (1924)
• Odtaa (1926)
• The Hawbucks (1929)
• The Wanderer of Liverpool (1930)
• A Tale of Troy (1932)
• The Bird of Dawning (1933)
• The Taking of the Gry (1934)
• Victorious Troy (1935)
• Eggs and Baker (1936)
• The Square Pegg: or The Gun Fella (1937)
• Dead Ned (1938)
• Live and Kicking Ned (1939)
• Basilissa: A Tale of the Empress Theodora (1940)
• Conquer: A Tale of the Nika Rebellion in Byzantium (1941)
• Badon Parchments (1947)

[edit] Plays

• The Campden Wonder
• Mrs. Harrison
• The Locked Chest
• The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight
• The Tragedy of Nan (1909)
• The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1910)
• The Faithful
• Good Friday
• Melloney Holtspur (1922)
• The Trial of Jesus (1925)
• The Coming of Christ (1928)

Source: [5]

[edit] Children's Books

• The Midnight Folk (1927)
• The Box of Delights (1935)

[edit] Non-fiction

• William Shakespeare (1911)
• Gallipoli (1916)

[edit] Works about John Masefield

• Masefield A poem by Florence Earle Coates (The North American Review, May 1922)

[edit] Transcription projects

• Index:John Masefield.djvu
• Index:A Mainsail Haul - Masefield - 1913.djvu
• Index:Two poems by John Masefield - Griffes.djvu

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1967, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.