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John Masefield Quotes

English poet and writer (1878–1967)

John Edward Masefield, OM (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer; he was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death.

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Alternative Names: John Edward Masefield

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Similar: Alfred Tennyson 57.8% William Butler Yeats 56.8% Dylan Thomas 55.1% Edna St. Vincent Millay 54.8% Thomas Moore 54.6% Luís de Camões 54.5% Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 54.4% Sara Teasdale 54.2% Lord Byron 54.1% George William Russell 53.4%
I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.

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