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Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918 / Bristol / England)
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Born in Bristol, England on 25th November 1890 to Russian-Jewish parents, Isaac Rosenberg grew up in the East End of London and became an apprentice .. more >>
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  ''Iron are our lives
Molten right through our youth.
A burnt space through ripe fields
A fair mouth's broken tooth.''
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. August 1914 (l. 9-12). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (197...
 
  ''Poppies whose roots are in man's veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;
But mine in my ear is safe,
Just a little white with the dust.''
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. Break of Day in the Trenches (l. 23-26). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. F...
 
  ''Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.''
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. Break of Day in the Trenches (l. 16-18). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. F...
 
  ''When the swift iron burning bee
Drained the wild honey of their youth.''
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. Dead Man's Dump (l. 30-31). . . Oxford Book of War Poetry, The. Jon Stallworthy, ed. (1984) Oxford Univ...
 
  ''The grass and coloured clay
More motion have than they,
Joined to the great sunk silences.''
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. Dead Man's Dump (l. 66-68). . . Oxford Book of War Poetry, The. Jon Stallworthy, ed. (1984) Oxford Univ...
 
  ''Earth has waited for them,
All the time of their growth
Fretting for their decay:
Now she has them at last!''
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. Dead Man's Dump (l. 14-17). . . Oxford Book of War Poetry, The. Jon Stallworthy, ed. (1984) Oxford Univ...
 
  ''For a shirt verminously busy
Yon soldier tore from his throat, with oaths
Godhead might shrink at, but not the lice.''
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. Louse Hunting (l. 5-7). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (19...
 
  ''Death could drop from the dark
As easily as song—
But song only dropped,''
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. Returning, We Hear the Larks (l. 10-12). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. F...

 
 
 
 
 
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