THE STORY OF A ROUND-HOUSE AND OTHER POEMS
BY
JOHN MASEFIELD
AUTHOR OF "THE EVERLASTING MERCY" "THE WIDOW IN THE BYE STREET," ETC.
NEW AND REVISED EDITION
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1915
All rights reserved
COPYRIGHT, 1912 and 1913, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1912.
New and revised edition, June, 1913. Reprinted September, 1913. March, 1914; January, 1915.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co. -- Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
CONTENTS
Dauber
Biography
Ships Truth They closed her Eyes The Harp I saw the Ramparts That Blessed Sunlight Song The Ballad of Sir Bors Spanish Waters Cargoes Captain Stratton's Fancy An Old Song re-sung St. Mary's Bells London Town The Emigrant Port of Holy Peter Beauty The Seekers Prayer Dawn Laugh and be Merry June Twilight Roadways Midsummer Night The Harper's Song The Gentle Lady The Dead Knight Sorrow of Mydath Twilight Invocation Posted as Missing A Creed When Bony Death The West Wind Her Heart Being her Friend Fragments Born for Nought Else Tewkesbury Road The Death Rooms Ignorance Sea Fever The Watch in the Wood C. L. M. Waste Third Mate The Wild Duck Christmas, 1903 The Word
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EXPLANATIONS OF SOME OF THE SEA TERMS USED IN THE POEM
Backstays. Wire ropes which support the masts against lateral and after strains.
Barney's bull. A figure in marine proverb. A jewel in marine repartee.
Bells. Two bells (one forward, one aft) which are struck every half-hour in a certain manner to mark the passage of the watches.
Bitts. Strong wooden structures (built round each mast) upon which running rigging is secured.
Block. A sheaved pulley.
