"brief spell behind the lines. John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon"
"1902 in London by Grant Richards. In ""The Collected Poems of John Masefield"" the opening line was changed to the text now more commonly anthologised: ""I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky"". The first lines of the second and third stanzas retained the form ""I must down to the seas again [...]"". ""Cargoes"" first appeared in ""Ballads"" – Masefield's second volume of poetry, published in 1903 in London by Elkin Mathews. ""Sea-Fever"" has been set to music by many composers, including Stephen DeCesare and Patrick Clifford on his album ""American Wake""; the"
"and his ashes placed in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Later, the following verse was discovered, written by Masefield, addressed to his ""Heirs, Administrators, and Assigns"": The Masefield Centre at Warwick School, which Masefield attended, and a high school in Ledbury, Herefordshire, have been named in his honour. In 1977, Folkways Records released an album of his poetry, including some read by Masefield himself. In addition to the commission for Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode with music by Elgar, many of Masefield's short poems were set as art songs by British composers of the time. Best known by far is John"
"to sea on a windjammer destined for New York City. However, the urge to become a writer and the hopelessness of life as a sailor overtook him, and in New York, he deserted ship. He lived as a vagrant for several months, drifting between odd jobs, eventually finding work as an assistant to a bar keeper, before finally returning to New York City. Sometime around Christmas 1895, Masefield read the December edition of ""Truth"", a New York periodical, which contained the poem ""The Piper of Arll"" by Duncan Campbell Scott. Ten years later, Masefield wrote to Scott to tell him"
"crimes, responding with a quote from Everlasting Mercy: The Everlasting Mercy The Everlasting Mercy is a poem by John Masefield, the UK's second longest-serving poet laureate. It was published in 1911, and is styled as the confession of a man who has turned from sin to Christianity. The work that first made Masefield famous, it shocked early 20th century British sensibilities with its direct, honest, and therefore often harsh language, as the life of protagonist violent, drunken womanizer Saul Kane is laid out in detail. In the third episode of the series Peter Gunn, ""The Vicious Dog"", the last line"
"The Amphitrite ""The Amphitrite"" (or sometimes called “The Skippers Erudition"" to distinguish it from other poems of the same or similar names) is a Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Robert Gilchrist, in a style deriving from music hall. This song tells the tale of a coal keel (or keel boat) ""The Amphitrite"" was the name of a Tyne coal carrying keelboat. The song, written by Robert Gilchrist tells of the ship and its crew. The comments made in the 1891 edition of Allan’s Tyneside Songs (marked July 30, 1829 E G), is “The following production records"
"infest the shore: Stink-horns that propagate and spore Wherever the wind blows. Scafell looks down from the bracken band And sees hell in a grain of sand, And feels the canker itch between his toes. This is a land where the dirt is clean And poison pasture, quick and green, And storm sky, bright and bare; Where sewers flow with milk, and meat is carved up for the fire to eat, And children suffocate in God's fresh air. </poem> Nicholson was the subject of a South Bank Show broadcast in the United Kingdom on 4 November 1984. Millom Library and"
"mature description. ….The night that born out of that salt /now drips as perspiration /like the wine that trickles/ from the periphery of words/ in the nights with endless possibilities. (The Night That Born Out Of That Salt).He is sarcastically critical and delicately reproaching too. Poems like National Circus and So You Are A Gentleman reveal us this. Beastly Warmth is a ‘one of its kind’ love poem, I daresay. His musings with philosophical undertone and delicate images entwined with succinct narration give the reader a unique poetic experience. The following lines from the poem Endless Noon may well define"
"song originated with female prisoners at HMP Wakefield. A sprig was taken from Hatfeild Hall (Normanton Golf Club) in Stanley, Wakefield, and grew into a fully mature mulberry tree around which prisoners exercised in the moonlight. However, there is no evidence to support this hypothesis. The Christmas carol, ""As I Sat on a Sunny Bank"", collected by Cecil Sharp in Worcestershire, has a very similar melody; as does the related ""I Saw Three Ships."" Another possible interpretation of the rhyme is that it references Britain's struggles to produce silk, mulberry trees being a key habitat for the cultivation of silkworms."
"and fiction to create this poem. His inspiration was the great Blizzard of 1839, which ravaged the northeast coast of the United States for 12 hours starting January 6, 1839, destroying 20 ships with a loss of 40 lives. He probably drew specifically on the destruction of the ""Favorite"", a ship from Wiscasset, Maine, on the reef of Norman's Woe off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts. All hands were lost, one of which was a woman, who reportedly floated to shore dead but still tied to the mast. It is, however, possible that this detail was taken from a different"
"the UK and USA from at least 1767. This is believed to be a corruption of ""mater cara"" (""dear mother"", the Virgin Mary), a reference to the supernatural Mother Carey, or a superstitious modification of an earlier ""Mother Mary's Chicken"" to reduce the potency of the religious name. The Mother Carey character appears a number of times in literature. In the Cicely Fox Smith poem ""Mother Carey"", she calls old sailors to return to the sea, but in John Masefield's poem of the same name she is seen as a wrecker of ships. She appears as a fairy in Charles"
"coal, under the command of Captain James McLean and with 15 crew. The crew clung to the rigging throughout the night and were finally rescued due to a seaman, William Skilton, who made several trips in a small boat to the wreck, despite raging seas. The ""Perilous Gate"" is a 19th-century poem by an anonymous author, describing the shipwreck. It has been abridged into a song of the same name by Phyl Lobl. Eleanor Lancaster (ship) The Eleanor Lancaster was a 3-masted barque built at Maryport in 1839. Launched in 1840, and initially registered in Liverpool, it was operated by"
"bathtub gin and the couple's colorful, eccentric and egocentric friends, but the party unfolds with more tumultuous goings-on than planned. <poem> Some love is fire: some love is rust: But the fiercest, cleanest love is lust. And their lust was tremendous. It had the feel Of hammers clanging; and stone; and steel: And torches of the savage, roaring kind That rip through iron, and strike men blind: Of long trains crashing through caverns under Grey trembling streets, like angry thunder: Of engines throbbing; and hoarse steam spouting; And feet tramping; and great crowds shouting. A lust so savage, they could"
"The Castaway The Castaway is an elegiac poem/ballad written by William Cowper in 1799. The poem is written in rhymed stanzas and gives the account of a crewman who was washed overboard during a storm. The poem is based on George Anson's ""Voyage around the World"" after Cowper read an account which told of one of the men being washed overboard and the horror that his shipmates felt as they watched him without being able to help as shown in this stanza of the poem: There is one explicit reference to Anson's voyage: Cowper, already having dealt with several periods"
"open land adjacent to the gasworks , and then speaks of the old canal, which was the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal. The line in the original version about smelling a spring on “the Salford wind” is sometimes sung as “the sulphured wind”. But in any case, most singers tend to drop the Salford reference altogether, in favour of calling the wind “smoky”. The Pogues' version of the song is played during walkout of the teams at Salford City FC. Also Real Betis. A football club in Seville, Spain. Notable renditions of the song include: Dirty Old Town ""Dirty Old"
"of both the United States and Canada, primarily by steamboat, but also by rail and coach. During his extensive itinerary, he made a particular point of visiting prisons and mental institutions and even took a quick glimpse at the prairie. He was particularly critical of the American press and the sanitary conditions of American cities. He also wrote merciless parodies of the manners of the locals, including, but not limited to, their rural conversations and practice of spitting tobacco in public (Ch. 8 – Washington): As Washington may be called the headquarters of tobacco-tinctured saliva, the time is come when"
"The Everlasting Mercy The Everlasting Mercy is a poem by John Masefield, the UK's second longest-serving poet laureate. It was published in 1911, and is styled as the confession of a man who has turned from sin to Christianity. The work that first made Masefield famous, it shocked early 20th century British sensibilities with its direct, honest, and therefore often harsh language, as the life of protagonist violent, drunken womanizer Saul Kane is laid out in detail. In the third episode of the series Peter Gunn, ""The Vicious Dog"", the last line is the antagonist, asked why he'd committed the"
"Beasley Street ""Beasley Street"" is one of the many notable works by punk poet John Cooper Clarke. Dealing with poverty in inner-city Salford in the Britain of Margaret Thatcher, Cooper Clarke has said that the poem was inspired by Camp Street in Lower Broughton. It has a relentless theme of squalor and despair: The poem is similar in theme to ""An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum"" by Stephen Spender published in his ""New Collected Poems"" (1964). The poem appears on Cooper Clarke's 1980 album ""Snap, Crackle & Bop"". When it was released, BBC radio stations censored the line ""Keith"
"from first sonic droplets of rain to final crashing thunder and lightning"" performed by Adrian Johnston. ""Old England"" is a criticism of Thatcherism, blaming Margaret Thatcher's economic policies for what Scott perceived to be an increase in desperation amongst the young and poor in the England of that time, and a rise in drug addiction, specifically to heroin. The refrain, ""Old England is dying"" is a quote from James Joyce, and the lines ""You're asking what makes me sigh now / What it is makes me shudder so"" are from W.B. Yeats' poem, ""Mad as the Mist and Snow"". The"
"Mauretania""; but then goes on to say ""shovelling coal from morn till night"" (not possible in 1924 as she was oil-fired by then). The number of ""fires"" is said to be 64. Hughie Jones also recorded the song but the last verse of Hughie's version calls upon ""all you trimmers"" whereas Redd Sullivan's version calls upon ""stokers"". The Clive Cussler Isaac Bell novel ""The Thief"" is set aboard ""Mauretania"". A terrible fire engulfs the forward storage area but it is brought under control. ""Mauretania"" is also mentioned in Rudyard Kipling's poem ""The Secret of the Machines"": The boat-express is waiting"
"""Sixteen Tons"" with Brian Daly from the single ""Sixteen Tons/The Swan Necked Valve"" and track eighteen ""Dirty Old Town"" from the single ""Dirty Old Town/Sheffield Apprentice"". One of his songs appears with another act, ""Come All Ye Fisher Lads"" by ""the Fisher Family"" from their eponymous album as track two on the fourth CD. MacColl was one of the main composers of British protest songs during the folk revival of the 1950s/'60s. In the early '50s he penned ""The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh"" (well known even today in Vietnam) and ""The Ballad of Stalin"" for the British Communist Party."
"Masefield desired to connect shanties with much older English traditions and literature, and his characterization of individual items as such would prove attractive to later enthusiasts. So for example, Masefield implied that the shanty ""A-roving"" (which he titled ""The Maid of Amsterdam"") was derived from Thomas Heywood's ""The Tragedy of the Rape of Lucrece"" (1608). Lyrics and ideas from Masefield's collection became among the most quoted or plagiarized in later shanty collections, and by their sheer ubiquity these contributed to 20th century audiences' perceptions of the genre. The 1914 collection by Frank Thomas Bullen, ""Songs of Sea Labour"", differed from"
"1861. A second fleet of 12 to 20 vessels was sunk in nearby Mafitt's Channel in 1862. The operation was under the direction of Samuel Francis DuPont, Flag Officer commanding the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Confederate general Robert E. Lee called the measure ""an abortive expression of the malice and revenge"" of the North. The event inspired Herman Melville to write the poem entitled, ""The Stone Fleet"". Stone Fleet The Stone Fleet consisted of a fleet of aging ships (mostly whaleships) purchased in New Bedford and other New England ports, loaded with stone, and sailed south during the American Civil"
"art thou like the adder waxen deaf? Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen. Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester's tomb? Why then Queen Margaret was ne'er thy joy. Erect his statua and worship it, And make my image but an alehouse sign. Was I for this nigh wracked upon the sea, And twice by awkward winds from England's bank Drove back again unto my native clime? What boded this, but well forewarning winds Did seem to say, 'Seek not a scorpion's nest, Nor set no footing on this unkind shore'? What did I then, but cursed the"
"Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Snow Storm, or Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, (full title: Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the ""Ariel"" left Harwich) is a painting by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) from 1842. Though panned by many contemporary critics, critic John Ruskin commented in 1843 that it was ""one of the very grandest statements of sea-motion, mist and light, that has ever been put on canvas"". An inscription on the"
"metal plates. The cabin was covered with oiled cloth. They covered the between Glasgow and Paisley in 50 minutes. They were towed by teams of two horses which were changed every . A few months before the canal saw its first traffic, poet Robert Tannahill drowned himself during a bout of depression, by throwing himself into a deep pit which carries the water of a stream down to a culvert under the canal. This came to be known as Tannahills Hole. A group of his poems had just been rejected by an Edinburgh publisher. He was well known for periods"
"population cleared the beach very quickly. Geordie dialect words John Peacock (songwriter) John Peacock (died 1867) was a South Shields born songwriter and poet in the 19th century. His most famous piece is possibly ""Marsden Rocks"". John Peacock (died 1867) was born in South Shields. He was born in the City of York in the year 1799 He went to sea at the age of 12 and was captured by the French during either the French Revolutionary Wars or, more likely,the Napoleonic Wars between France and Britain. He was a prisoner for several years being confined in a camp in"
"angry, desolate mood of Britain in the mid-1980s. Two years after its publication, Richard Eyre’s film of the poem sparked a national furore not over Harrison’s politics but over his skinhead protagonist’s use of ‘bad language’. Attacked by Mary Whitehouse (""this work of singular nastiness"") and by Tory MPs wanting Channel 4’s broadcast to be stopped, the poem attracted lurid headlines in the tabloids. ""A torrent of four-letter filth"" was the ""Daily Mail""s description: ""The most explicitly sexual language yet beamed into the nation’s living rooms…the crudest, most offensive word is used 17 times."" The second edition of ""v."" (1989)"
"Paranoid: A Chant ""Paranoid: A Chant"" is a 100-line poem by Stephen King originally published in the 1985 short story collection ""Skeleton Crew"". The poem is a first-person narrative from the diary of a person with paranoid schizophrenia, the character complains of persecution from ""the old woman in the room above"" who ""has put an electric suction cup on the floor..."" ""the waitress says its salt, but I know arsenic when it's put before me..."" and many more horrors. When he is served food with mustard he thinks it is ""to mask the bitter odor of almonds,"" presumably a reference"
"of trains and explosions. Lyrically, it has a Python-esque quality, dealing with elements of the absurd in the English psyche, ""there's Winston Churchill, dressed in drag, he used to be a British flag, plastic bag, what a drag!"" and numerous elements of word play, boarding schools, agricultural depravity and social conformity. The lyrics also reference ""Foxtrot's"" cover artwork (""the fox on the rocks"") and a song from ""Nursery Cryme"", Genesis' previous album (""The Musical Box""). The programme describes ""Willow Farm"" as follows: ""Climbing out of the pool, they are once again in a different existence. They're right in the middle"
"accident there are evacuation riots, societal collapse and widespread health impacts. Sellafield was the subject of Marilynne Robinson's 1989 book, ""Mother Country"", a critique of British nuclear policy. Sellafield is the central theme of Les Barker's comic poem 'Jason and the Arguments,' and is also mentioned in other Barker works. The Irish attitude to Sellafield forms a key plot strand in ""Body Breaker"", a crime thriller by Mike Craven Norman Nicholson's poem ""Windscale"", which refers to the 1957 accident, is a commentary on the poison that Nicholson believed nuclear power had introduced to an area of natural beauty. Sellafield Sellafield"
"Burned are their homes, exile and death Scatter the loyal men; Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath Charlie will come again.</poem> Robert Louis Stevenson's 1892 poem, which has been sung to the tune, has the following text: <poem>[Chorus:] Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye. Mull was astern, on the port, Eigg on the starboard bow; Glory of youth glowed in his soul; Where is that glory now? [Chorus] Give me again all that was there,"
"Mother Carey Mother Carey is a supernatural figure personifying the cruel and threatening sea in the imagination of 18th- and 19th-century English-speaking sailors. She was a similar character to Davy Jones (who may be her husband). The name seems to be derived from the Latin expression ""Mater cara"" (""Precious Mother""), which sometimes refers to the Virgin Mary. John Masefield described her in the poem ""Mother Carey (as told me by the bo'sun)"" in his collection ""Salt Water Ballads"" (1902). Here she and Davy Jones are a fearsome couple responsible for storms and ship-wrecks. In a Cicely Fox Smith poem entitled"