Chapter I: Front Matter

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 WINDS 1 SEA-FEVER 2 PRAYER 3 THE WEST WIND 4

_From Poems and Ballads_-- CARGOES 5 AN OLD SONG RE-SUNG 6 TWILIGHT 7 INVOCATION 8 A CREED 8 WHEN BONY DEATH 10 THE DEATH ROOMS 10 C. L. M. 11 WASTE 12 THE WILD DUCK 13

_From Pompey the Great_-- CHORUS 14 EPILOGUE 15

_From The Everlasting Mercy_-- THE SCALLENGE 16 EPILOGUE 18

_From The Widow in the Bye Street_-- THE END 19

_From Dauber_-- THE SETTING OF THE WATCH 22 THE WATCH BELOW 23 THE HORN 26 THE SOUTH-WEST WIND 29 WE THEREFORE COMMIT OUR BROTHER 33

_From The Daffodil Fields_ 38 THE RIVER 40 THE RETURN 42 THE END OF THE TROUBLE 57

_From Philip the King_-- THE MESSENGER’S SPEECH 63 TRUTH 76 THE “WANDERER” 77 AUGUST, 1914 88 BIOGRAPHY 91 SHIPS 104 SONNET ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE 108 THEY CLOSED HER EYES 109

_From Good Friday_-- THE MADMAN SPEAKS 113

_From Lollingdon Downs_-- SONNETS 117

_From Gallipoli_-- EPILOGUE 136

_From Reynard the Fox_ 136

_From Enslaved_-- PROLOGUE 152 THE END 154 THE HOUNDS OF HELL 162 ANIMULA 186 FORGET 193 ON GROWING OLD 194

_From Right Royal_ 195

_From Esther_-- CHORUSES 205