 And so by ship to sea, and knew no more The fields of home, the byres, the market towns, Nor the dear outline of the English shore, But knew the misery of the soaking trench, The freezing in the rigging, the despair In the revolting second of the wrench...  The Quarterly Review - Page 382edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
 | 1915 - 632 pages
...thing their life held, were shipped far away from England, endured the miseries of foreign warfare, ' And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some...hands Which love of England prompted and made good.' 2 K 2 The spirit of these forgotten English peasant soldiers — ' All the unspoken worship of those... | |
 | John Masefield - 1914 - 162 pages
...rigging, the despair In the revolting second of the wrench When the blind soul is flung upon the ah*, And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some...hands Which love of England prompted and made good. If there be any life beyond the grave, It must be near the men and things we love, Some power of quick... | |
 | John Masefield - 1914 - 170 pages
...the air, And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some idea but dimly understood Of an Engl'sh city never built by hands Which love of England prompted and made good. If there be any life beyond the grave, It must be near the men and things we love, Some power of quick... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1915 - 312 pages
...rigging, the despair In the revolting second of the wrench When the blind soul is flung upon the air. And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some...hands Which love of England prompted and made good. — English Review, Sept., 1914. A poem from the pen of the author of Hamewith is worth mention. It... | |
 | 1916 - 884 pages
...thing their life held, were shipped far away from England, endured the miseries of foreign warfare, And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some...hands Which love of England prompted and made good. The spirit of the«o forgotten English peasant soldiers — "All the unspoken worship of those lives"... | |
 | John Masefield - 1916 - 328 pages
...rigging, the despair In the revolting second of the wrench When the blind soul is flung upon the air, And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some...hands, Which love of England prompted and made good. . . . If there be any life beyond the grave, It must be near the men and things we love, Some power... | |
 | John Masefield - 1916 - 332 pages
...rigging, the despair In the revolting second of the wrench When the blind soul is flung upon the air, died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands " For some...hands, Which love of England prompted and made good. . . . •**. «• If there be any life beyond the grave, It must be near the men and things we love,... | |
 | George Currie Martin - 1917 - 180 pages
...rigging, the despair In the revolting sound of the wrench When the blind soul is flung upon the air, And died (uncouthly most) in foreign lands > For some...hands, Which love of England prompted and made good." The longer and best known poems — ,in order of their publication are The Everlasting Mercy, The Widow... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pages
...his most famous war sonnet is The Soldier, which recalls exactly Masefield's verse about those who Died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some idea,...hands, Which love of England prompted and made good. If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever... | |
 | Cecil Fairfield Lavell, Charles Edward Payne - 1918 - 470 pages
...rigging, the despair In the revolting second of the wrench When the blind soul is flung upon the air, And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some...hands, Which love of England prompted and made good. JOHN MASEFIELD. On his visit to Harvard University shortly before the Great War began, Rudolf Eucken,... | |
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