stick'st

Updated: May 19, 2025

In the last year of his life, being asked by an American if he had been much in Athens, he replied contritely, "Thou stick'st a dagger in me." He belied Goethe's famous dictum. John Masefield was born at Ledbury, in western England, in 1874.

William Lyon Phelps - The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century