Selected Poems

By
John Masefield

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, LTD.

Printed in Great Britain.
TO
MY WIFE

From Salt Water Ballads—
	PAGE
[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 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 Enslaved—
[Prologue]	[152]
[The End]	[154]
[The Hounds of Hell]	[162]
[Animula]	[186]
[Forget]	[193]
[On Growing Old]	[194]
From Esther—
[Choruses]	[205]
[Act II]	[209]

The books from which these selections are taken are published by the following firms, to whom the author makes the usual acknowledgments:—

Salt Water Ballads	Messrs. Elkin Mathews, Ltd.
Poems and Ballads	””
Pompey the Great	Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.
The Everlasting Mercy	””
The Widow in the Bye Street	” ”
Dauber	Messrs. William Heinemann, Ltd.
The Daffodil Fields	” ”
Philip the King	” ”
Gallipoli	” ”
Good Friday	” ”
Lollingdon Downs	” ”
Reynard the Fox	” ”
Enslaved	” ”
Right Royal	” ”
Esther	” ”