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Poem Of The Day: Mihail Lermontov

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Justin • Leave a comment

In 1841, a few months before his death (in a pistol duel with a fellow officer at the foot of Mount Mashuk in the Caucasus), Mihail Lermontov (1814-41) composed a remarkably prophetic poem:   In noon’s heat, in a dale of Dagestan, With lead inside my breast, stirless I lay; The deep wound still smoked on; … Continue reading →

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Quote Of The Day: Lord Byron

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Justin • 3 Comments

From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: There is the moral of all human tales; ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last. Continue reading →

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Poem Of The Day: William Butler Yeats

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Justin • Leave a comment

Yeats wrote The Second Coming in 1919 at the end of World War I. The poem uses Christian imagery, but it is about the Europe that existed at the end of World War I and what was to follow rather than about religion… It is just as apt in describing Syria or other such bloody … Continue reading →

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Poem Of The Day – The Italian War Poets

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Justin • Leave a comment

D’Annunzio: In a lurid vision of battle that champions the victors’ right to slaughter their foe, lay waste his cities and rape his women declared: We shall ransack the mothers’ wombs with fire… I smile upon the land that is my prey Corrado Govoni’s long poem, called simply “War!” describes the entire world turning into “a … Continue reading →

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Poem Of The Day: Rudyard Kipling

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Justin • Leave a comment

Ex-Clerk Pity not! The Army gave Freedom to a timid slave: In which Freedom did he find Strength of body, will, and mind: By which strength he came to prove Mirth, Companionship, and Love: For which Love to Death he went: In which Death he lies content. Continue reading →

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Poem Of The Day: Robert W. Service

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Justin • Leave a comment

There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And … Continue reading →

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