Download or read book The Widow in the Bye Street written by John Masefield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Widow in the Bye Street' is a continuous series of poems written by John Masefield, an English poet and writer, who was also the nation's Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Divided into six parts, its first stanza begins with, "Down Bye Street, in a little Shropshire town; There lived a widow with her only son."