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Hace 1 día · Disabled Poem – by Wilfred Owen (Text-Version) He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park. Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Voices of play and pleasure after day, Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.
Hace 5 días · Spring Offensive. Halted against the shade of a last hill, They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease. And, finding comfortable chests and knees. Carelessly slept. But many there stood still. To face the stark, blank sky beyond the ridge, Knowing their feet had come to the end of the world. Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled.
Hace 3 días · Bent double like old beggars under sacks. A. Knock kneed coughing like hags we cursed through sludge. B. Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs. A. And towards our distant rest began to trudge. B. Men marched asleep Many had lost their boots.
Hace 2 días · Strange Meeting Poem – by Wilfred Owen (Text-Version) Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless. By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan. “Strange friend,” I said, “here is no cause to mourn.”.
Hace 3 días · O trecho a seguir foi retirado do poema "Dulce et Decorum Est" ("É Doce e Honroso"), de Wilfred Owen (1893- 1918), poeta e soldado inglês, combatente da 1º Guerra Mundial (1914-1918): "Sem cura numa língua sem culpa, nesse instante Não dirias, minha amiga, com tão ardente fé A crianças que desejam sorver da glória o gole AA vetusta mentira: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori".
Hace 4 días · Walking with Wilfred in Dunsden. Thirteen gallant walkers assembled at All Saints Church, Dunsden at 5pm for a gentle perambulation around the local memory of Lieutenant Wilfred Owen MC – the gay poet of WW1 who wrote 'my subeject is not war, but the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity'. He came to Dunsden as a youth with an ecclesiastical ...
Hace 1 día · One such personality is Wilfred Owen, a renowned English poet and soldier, whose poignant and powerful war poetry left an indelible mark on World War I literature. Another significant figure is Wilfred Thesiger, a British explorer and writer known for his extensive travels and documentation of Arabian and African cultures.
