Francis Ledwidge, 'The Lanawn Shee'

Jul 31, 2017 01:00

The Lanawn Shee
(Belgium, July 1917)Powdered and perfumed the full bee ( Read more... )

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med_cat August 2 2017, 09:28:42 UTC
A charming poem and a pity that he died young, like so many others...

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duathir August 2 2017, 10:10:01 UTC
A pity indeed; never was such a holocaust of poets.

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med_cat August 3 2017, 00:45:32 UTC
Another one was in the 1930s in the Soviet Union, and not even because of the war...

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duathir August 8 2017, 02:58:39 UTC
That is so; most tragic. I have posted some of those poets on war_poetry.

Had you seen Carol Ann Duffy's 'The Last Post'? (The video is of a reading of the poem, illustrated with vintage photos.)

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