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THE CLOISTER from kendrive ^Pro 533 days old

[ ... ] dung and now their blossoms gleam. God gives to glisten in an angel's hair These He has gardened, for they please His eyes. Isaac Rosenberg

MY DAYS from kendrive ^Pro 534 days old

Here is another of Rosenberg's early poems - written in 1911, when he was 20. Was he even then thinking of all the young men who would die in the Great ...

FIRST FRUIT from kendrive ^Pro 535 days old

[ ... ] year. Isaac Rosenberg The wind doesn't lend itself to being grasped by the hands or to bring touched. But never the less there is such a ...

TWO BECOME ONE from kendrive ^Pro 536 days old

I am returning to Rosenberg with another poem written before 1914. His early work did not have the maturity that came with his experience of war, but ...

IN ETERNITY - THE WORLD IS ONLY A SMALL POOL from kendrive ^Pro 539 days old

Isaac Rosenberg wrote this poem in 1913 - before the outbreak of the First World War. He seems to be anticipating the loss of life in that conflict ...

GOD from kendrive ^Pro 540 days old

I have been asked to return to Rosenberg; so here is another of his poems. GOD In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire, Lanthorned in his oblique ...

THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM from kendrive ^Pro 546 days old

In this poem Rosenberg invokes the traditional Jewish allegory of destruction to describe the carnage around him on the battlefield of World War 1. THE ...

DESERT FLOWERS from kendrive ^Pro 548 days old

I am deserting Isaac Rosenberg today - but not really because this poem by the Second World War poet Keith Douglas, is a tribute to him. Keith Douglas ...

ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE WAR from kendrive ^Pro 549 days old

[ ... ] bloom. Isaac Rosenberg The wise do not take delight in the senses and their objects, are not impressed by them, are not attched to them and in ...

MARCHING from kendrive ^Pro 550 days old

[ ... ] eyes. Isaac Rosenberg Overcome anger by peacefulness: Overcome evil by good. Overcome the mean by generosity; and the man who lies by truth.