John Masefield

There were coasters butting into the gale in the Channel, very much as John Masefield promised there would be, and we flew low enough to see all the paraphernalia on deck – lifeboats, hatches, ropes – and the shimmer of heat just above the funnel.

So close, yet so far away – Europe is still something of a mystery to many of us | Ian Jack 2011

During our visit together in Philadelphia Frank Wilson brought this great poem (written in 1903) to my attention: "Cargoes" by the English Poet-laureate John Masefield (1878-1967) :

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During our visit together in Philadelphia Frank Wilson brought this great poem (written in 1903) to my attention: "Cargoes" by the English Poet-laureate John Masefield (1878-1967) :

Time to reconsider John Masefield 2010

Along with a collection of poetry, her books in the early 1950s consisted of a tribute to William Wordsworth; a reassessment of Mary Shelley and selection of her letters; editions of the poems and letters of Emily Bronte; and an account of John Masefield.

Muriel Spark. 2009

From Hymn 608 ( "Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee/For those in peril on the sea!") to the hymn Finlandia ( "My country's skies are bluer than the ocean") to a recitation of a John Masefield poem ( "I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life/To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife.")

'Good Sailing, Walter': At St. Bart's, TV Newsers Bid Farewell to Cronkite 2009

The poet and essayist John Masefield had piloted a naval ambulance during the campaign, and his “Gallipoli” — which originated as a series of lectures for the American market — became a best seller in 1916.

Straits of Disaster 2009

Mine was a thumb-stick of hazel, originally carved and owned by John Masefield.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Mine was a thumb-stick of hazel, originally carved and owned by John Masefield.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

So that to believe in his resurrection is to believe in Jesus – in the great phrase of John Masefield, 'alive and at large in the world'; Jesus set free, he's not going to die, nothing prevents him acting, he is always going to be active and not passive, always at work.

Risen Indeed: The Resurrection in the Gospels 2008

So that to believe in his resurrection is to believe in Jesus – in the great phrase of John Masefield, 'alive and at large in the world'; Jesus set free, he's not going to die, nothing prevents him acting, he is always going to be active and not passive, always at work.

'Risen Indeed': The Resurrection in the Gospels 2008