Owen, Wilfred

The Send-off by Wilfred Owen

December 27, 2010 by Every Writer

The Send-off by Wilfred Owen Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men’s are, dead. Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp Stood staring hard, Sorry to miss them from […]

Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen

April 25, 2010 by Every Writer

Wilfred Owen was born at Oswestry on 18th March 1893

from: In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

from: In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson XXVIII The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets round, From far and near, on mead and moor, Swell out and […]

Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson

Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand; The wind was a nor’wester, blowing squally off the sea; And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee. They heard the surf a-roaring […]

Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, […]

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