Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge

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Authors: Francis Ledwidge In Year : 1919

Book Language: English

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Introduction to Songs of the Fields
Introduction to Songs of Peace
Introduction to Last Songs
Songs of the Fields: To My Best Friend
Behind the Closed Eye
Bound to the Mast
To A Linnet in a Cage
A Twilight in Middle March
Spring
Desire in Spring
A Rainy Day in April
A Song of April
The Broken Tryst
Thoughts at the Trysting Stile
Evening in May
An Attempt at a City Sunset
Waiting
The Singer's Muse
Inamorata
The Wife of Llew
The Hills
June
In Manchester
Music on Water
To M. McG
In the Dusk
The Death of Ailill
August
The Visitation of Peace
Before the Tears
God's Remembrance
An Old Pain
The Lost Ones
All-Hallows Eve
A Memory
A Song
A Fear
The Coming Poet
The Vision on the Brink
To Lord Dunsany
On an Oaten Straw
Evening in February
The Sister
Before the War of Cooley
Low-Moon Land
The Sorrow of Findebar
On Dream Water
The Death of Sualtem
The Maid in Low-Moon Land
The Death of Leag, Cuchulain's Charioteer
The Passing of Caoilte
Growing Old
After My Last Song
Songs of Peace: A Dream of Artemis
A Little Boy in the Morning
To A Distant One
The Place
May
To Eilish of the Fair Hair
Crewbrawn
Evening in England
Crocknaharna
In the Mediterranean- Going to the War
The Gardener
Autumn Evening in Serbia
Nocturne
Spring and Autumn
The Departure of Proserpine
The Home-Coming of the Sheep
When Love and Beauty Wander Away
My Mother
Song
To One Dead
The Resurrection
The Shadow People
An Old Desire
Thomas McDonagh
The Wedding Morning
The Blackbirds
The Lure
Thro' Bogac Ban
Fate
Evening Clouds
Song
The Herons
In the Shadows
The Ships of Arcady
After
To One Weeping
A Dream Dance
By Faughan
In September
Last Songs: To An Old Quill of Lord Dunsany's
To A Sparrow
Old Clo'
Youth
The Little Children
Autumn
Ireland
Lady Fair
At a Poet's Grave
After Court Martial
A Mother's Song
At Currabwee
Song-time is Over
Una Bawn
Spring Love
Soliloquy
Dawn
Ceol Sidhe
The Rushes
The Dead Kings
In France
Had I A Golden Pound
Fairies
In a Cafe
Spring
Pan
With Flowers
The Find
A Fairy Hunt
To One Who Comes Now and Then
The Sylph
Home
The Lanawn Shee

Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet, served in an Irish battalion ("The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers") of the British Army during World War I. His first volume of poems was published while he served, in 1915; two more were published posthumously, and were followed by this collection of complete works in 1919. He and five comrades had been killed by an exploding shell during the third battle of Ypres (July 1917). His poems reflect his love for his native rural countryside, tinged with loss arising from the war. From his frequent use of a blackbird motif, he was known as the "Poet of the Blackbird." Of him, the poet John Drinkwater wrote: "His poetry exults me, while not so his death.... to those who know what poetry is, the untimely death of a man like Ledwidge is nothing but calamity." - Summary by Nemo