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Francis Ledwidge, 'The Lanawn Shee'
Jul 31, 2017 01:00
The Lanawn Shee
(Belgium, July 1917)Powdered and perfumed the full bee (
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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
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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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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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