by John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
Cargoes
Language: English
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores, With a cargo of diamonds, Emeralds, amythysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores. Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails, pig-lead, Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
First published in Broad Sheet, May 1903
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Authorship:
- by John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "Cargoes", appears in Ballads and Poems, first published 1910 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sydney Burkinshaw (b. 1911), "Cargoes" [boys' chorus in unison and piano] [text not verified]
- by Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879 - 1934), "Cargoes", published 1920 [voice and piano], from Three Sailor Songs [text not verified]
- by Tom Dobson (1890 - 1918), "Cargoes", published 1920. [duet for low voice (or medium voice) and soprano with piano] [text not verified]
- by William Parks Grant (b. 1910), "Cargoes", op. 12. [medium voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Samuel R. Lewis , "Cargoes", published <<1940. [text not verified]
- by Frederick John Easthope Martin (1882 - 1925), "Cargoes", published 1919 [medium voice and piano], from Five Poems by John Masefield [text not verified]
- by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875 - 1958), "Cargoes", published 1924. [unison chorus and piano] [text not verified]
- by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875 - 1958), "Cargoes", published 1935. [satb chorus and piano] [text not verified]
- by Philip Benjamin Tomblings (b. 1902), "Cargoes", published 1936. [unison chorus and piano] [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-01-21
Line count: 15
Word count: 87