Tag: 20th century
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‘Easter Night’ by Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
All night had shout of men …
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‘Noel: Christmas Eve 1913’ by Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
A frosty Christmas Eve when the stars were shining Fared I forth alone
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‘The Oxen’ by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in hearthside ease. 4We pictured the meek mild creatures whereThey dwelt in their strawy pen,Nor did it occur to one of us thereTo doubt they were kneeling then. 8So fair a fancy…
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‘Shadows’ by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
All that matters is to be at one with the living God to be a creature in the house of the God of Life. Like a cat asleep on a chair at peace, in peace …
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‘The Ballad of Father Gilligan’ by W B Yeats (1865-1939)
The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay ……..
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‘Pax’ by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
All that matters is to be at one with the living God to be a creature in the house of the God of Life. Like a cat asleep on a chair at peace, in peace …
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‘Portugal, 1912’ by Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
And will they cast the alters down, Scatter the chalice, crush the bread? In field, in village and in town He hides an unregarded head; 4 Waits in the corn-lands far and near, Bright in His sun, dark in His frost, Sweet in the vine, ripe in the ear Lonely, unconsecrated Host 8 In ambush…
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