Author : Lawrance, W Category : Featured Poems, Poems
Tags : For The Fallen, Laurence Binyon, Remembrance
Date: September 1914 With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. There is music in the […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : First World War, For The Fallen, Laurence Binyon, Remembrance, war poetry
Born in Lancaster on 10th August 1869, Laurence Binyon was the second of the nine children of Frederick and Mary Binyon, who both came from Quaker families and Frederick was the vicar of Burton-in-Lonsdale, Yorkshire. Laurence was awarded a scholarship to St Paul’s School, London and then went on to Trinity College, Oxford. He was […]
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