Cargoes (Masefield, set by S. Burkinshaw, R. Clarke, T. Dobson, W. Grant, S. Lewis, E. Martin, M. Shaw, M. Shaw, P. Tomblings) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


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

Authorship

John Masefield (1878-1967)

Ballads and Poems

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Sydney Burkinshaw (1911-)

Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879-1934)

Three Sailor Songs

Tom Dobson (1890-1918)

William Parks Grant (1910-)

Samuel R. Lewis

Easthope Martin (-1925)

Five Poems by John Masefield

Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875-1958)

Philip Tomblings

Date added to the website: 2008-01-21.

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