In this poem, a funeral elegy for a child who has died, Enright contemplates with poignancy how the ‘greatest griefs’ find themselves ‘inside the smallest cage’ when a young child dies. Enright, ‘ On the Death of a Child’.Įnright (1920-2002) was a noted academic as well as a poet. Not so, the poet argues: the slightest thing can bring back the pain.Ĩ. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) challenges – as Millay’s poetry often does – the received wisdom that ‘time is a healer’. This sonnet by the American poet Edna St. Where never fell his foot or shone his faceĪnd so stand stricken, so remembering him. Vincent Millay, ‘ Time Does Not Bring Relief’.Īnd entering with relief some quiet place The poem sounds like some of Louis MacNeice’s poetry, which isn’t as surprising as it first sounds: this poem was one of Binyon’s last, and was published in 1944, the year after his death.ħ. But Binyon also wrote some other fine poems of remembrance in a more general sense, and the BBC anthology includes this touching and technically adroit poem about a beautiful memory that resurfaces one fine winter morning. The more obvious choice here would have been the single poem by Binyon (1869-1943 pictured right) that has endured in the popular consciousness: namely, his poem recited at Remembrance Sunday every year to mark the Armistice. Returning without a reason into the mind … It was not there, it is there, in a perfect image Īnd all is changed. The shadow of the jasmine, branch and blossom! Suddenly, softly, as if at a breath breathed Stands in a Tuscan pot to delight the eye Yellow jasmine, delicate on stiff branches Waiting for day: not a sound but a listening air. It is early morning within this room without,ĭark and damp without and within, stillness
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