Mr Richardson, a young officer who had just joined the Battalion and was now a platoon officer in my company wrote a poem during the night about the Briton and the Bosche meeting in no-man's-land on Christmas Day, which he read out to us. A few days later it was published in The ...
Write home from the trenches Tell the Christmas journey story Design wrapping paper Design your own stocking Design a Christmas jumper Decorate a tree More festive fun Just like presents under the tree or turkey on Boxing Day, there's plenty more to discover in the Christmas area of Purple Mas...
the anglicized Santa Claus. But the enduring details of Santa’s story—the red suit, rotund belly and reindeer-pulled flying sleigh—were popularized by the 1822 poem “An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” with its immortal first line, “‘Twas the night before Christmas…”Readmore...
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with Hoy in the background. An admirer of GMB had left a little teddy bear in front of the grave and another one a pen… there were many moving testimonies. GMB’s gravestone bears an inscription taken from the last two lines of his 1996 poem, “A work for poets”. It reads “Carve...
There is bleakness, too, rather than the rustic revelry which Laurie “Cider with Rosie” Lee's name might lead one to expect, in his 1954 poem Twelfth Night, adroitly set to music by the American composer Samuel Barber in 1968. This austere meditation on the earth's ‘utter death', mor...