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Poems

Isaac Rosenberg · 1922

Original text in English.

The poems of a private soldier and those of his youth, gathered four years after his death.

Poetry · 60 parts · about 9 000 words · about 38 min of reading

Contents

POEMS FROM CAMP AND TRENCH

1. DAUGHTERS OF WAR2 min
2. ON RECEIVING THE FIRST NEWS OF THE WAR1 min
3. SPRING, 19161 min
4. THE TROOP SHIP1 min
5. MARCHING1 min
6. BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES1 min
7. KILLED IN ACTION1 min
8. RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS1 min
9. THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE BABYLONIAN HORDES1 min
10. THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE1 min
11. HOME-THOUGHTS FROM FRANCE1 min
12. THE IMMORTALS1 min
13. LOUSE HUNTING1 min
14. GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE1 min
15. SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY1 min
16. THE JEW1 min
17. THE DYING SOLDIER1 min
18. DEAD MAN’S DUMP2 min
19. IN WAR1 min
20. THE DEAD HEROES1 min

FRAGMENTS OF “THE UNICORN”

1. I THE AMULET7 min
2. II THE SONG OF TEL THE NUBIAN1 min
3. III THE TOWER OF SKULLS1 min

EARLIER POEMS

1. EXPRESSION1 min
2. FROM “NIGHT AND DAY”1 min
3. ZION1 min
4. SPIRITUAL ISOLATION: A FRAGMENT1 min
5. FAR AWAY1 min
6. SPRING1 min
7. SONG1 min
8. HEART’S FIRST WORD. I1 min
9. HEARTS FIRST WORD. II1 min
10. LADY, YOU ARE MY GOD1 min
11. IF YOU ARE FIRE1 min
12. IN THE UNDERWORLD1 min
13. O, IN A WORLD OF MEN AND WOMEN1 min
14. A GIRL’S THOUGHTS1 min
15. A BALLAD OF WHITECHAPEL2 min
16. TESS1 min
17. THE NUN1 min
18. IN PICCADILLY1 min
19. A MOOD1 min
20. FIRST FRUIT1 min
21. A CARELESS HEART1 min
22. DAWN1 min
23. AT NIGHT1 min
24. CREATION1 min
25. OF ANY OLD MAN1 min
26. THE ONE LOST1 min
27. WEDDED1 min
28. DON JUAN’S SONG1 min
29. ON A LADY SINGING1 min
30. BEAUTY1 min
31. A QUESTION1 min
32. CHAGRIN1 min
33. THE BLIND GOD1 min
34. THE FEMALE GOD1 min
35. GOD1 min
36. SLEEP1 min
37. MY DAYS1 min

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