Who wrote the poem which starts 'What passing bell for those who die as cattle'?
"the conclusion of the war. The series was announced by the BBC in October 2013, along with other programmes that played a part in the BBC World War I centenary season. It was a Red Planet Production with BBC Worldwide as the distributor. Filming took place in Poland. Telewizja Polska and Apple Film Production were co-producers. The series aired in the pre-watershed time-slot of 7pm, and the script was written for a younger audience and family viewing. The title was taken from the first line of Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem, ""Anthem for Doomed Youth"": ""What passing-bells for these who die"
"While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks ""While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks"" is a Christmas carol describing the Annunciation to the Shepherds, with words attributed to Irish hymnist, lyricist and England's Poet Laureate Nahum Tate. The exact date of Tate's composition is not known, but the words appeared in Tate and Nicholas Brady's 1700 supplement to their ""New Version of the Psalms of David"" of 1696. It was the only Christmas hymn authorised to be sung by the Anglican Church; before 1700 only the Psalms of David were permitted to be sung. It is written in common metre and based on the"
"Five Bells ""Five Bells"" (1939) is a meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published as the title poem in the author's collection ""Five Bells : XX Poems"", and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. The poem is a meditative piece based on a ship's bell ringing five bells - which occurs at either 2:30, 6:30, 10:30, 14:30, 18:30 or 22:30. The poem is a reflection of the death of Slessor's friend Joe Lynch who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927. In her essay ""'Living Backward' : Slessor and Masculine Elegy"" (1997) Kate Lilley noted: ""Chronologically displaced,"
"As I was going by Charing Cross ""As I was going by Charing Cross"" (sometimes referred to as ""As I was going to Charing Cross""), is an English language nursery rhyme. The rhyme was first recorded in the 1840s, but it may have older origins in street cries and verse of the seventeenth century. It refers to the equestrian statue of King Charles I in Charing Cross, London, and may allude to his death or be a puritan satire on royalist reactions to his execution. It was not recorded in its modern form until the mid-nineteenth century. It has a"
"same message. Any man between the ages of 16 and 60 able to bear arms who failed to arrive at the appointed tryst in full battle gear met the same fate as the goat and cross - himself slain and his chattels burnt. Frederick Douglass took his last name from the poem. When Douglass escaped from slavery, he changed his last name to hide from his former master. A friend proposed a new one: Ellen Douglas Birdseye Wheaton (1816–1858), author of ""The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton"" (1923, privately printed, Boston), wife of the abolitionist Charles Augustus Wheaton (1809–1882), was"
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day ""I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"" is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem ""Christmas Bells"" by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The song tells of the narrator's despair, upon hearing Christmas bells, that ""hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men"". The carol concludes with the bells carrying renewed hope for peace among men. In 1861, two years before writing this poem, Longfellow's personal peace was shaken when his second wife of 18 years, to whom he was very devoted, was tragically burned"
"Bells Across the Meadows Bells Across the Meadows is a piece of light classical music by Albert Ketèlbey. It was published in 1921 for both orchestra and piano, and first recorded by the composer a year later. Ketèlbey called the piece a ""characteristic intermezzo"". In 2003 it was selected in the final poll by the BBC radio programme ""Your Hundred Best Tunes"" and voted the 36th most popular classical tune of all time. English composer Albert Ketèlbey's instrumental piece ""Bells Across the Meadows"" was published by Keith Prowse & Co. in 1921, in versions for both orchestra and piano. The"
"The Bells (poem) ""The Bells"" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in 1849. It is perhaps best known for the diacopic use of the word ""bells."" The poem has four parts to it; each part becomes darker and darker as the poem progresses from ""the jingling and the tinkling"" of the bells in part 1 to the ""moaning and the groaning"" of the bells in part 4. This poem can be interpreted in many different ways, the most basic of which is simply a reflection of the sounds that"
"The Cattle Call ""The Cattle Call"" is a song written and recorded in 1934 by American songwriter and musician Tex Owens. It became a signature song for Eddy Arnold. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Owens wrote the song in Kansas City while watching the snow fall. ""Watching the snow, my sympathy went out to cattle everywhere, and I just wished I could call them all around me and break some corn over a wagon wheel and feed them. That's when the words 'cattle call' came"
"El cant dels ocells ""El cant dels ocells"" (; The song of the birds) is a traditional Catalan Christmas song and lullaby. It tells of nature's joy at learning of the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable in Bethlehem. The song was made famous outside Catalonia by Pablo Casals' instrumental version on the cello. After his exile in 1939, he would begin each of his concerts by playing this song. For this reason, it is often considered a symbol of Catalonia. Joan Baez included it in her 1966 best selling Christmas LP, dedicating the song to Casals. In 1991,"
"collected and printed by James Orchard Halliwell in the 1840s. As I was going by Charing Cross ""As I was going by Charing Cross"" (sometimes referred to as ""As I was going to Charing Cross""), is an English language nursery rhyme. The rhyme was first recorded in the 1840s, but it may have older origins in street cries and verse of the seventeenth century. It refers to the equestrian statue of King Charles I in Charing Cross, London, and may allude to his death or be a puritan satire on royalist reactions to his execution. It was not recorded in"
"Bells"" (1939), which returned to me, like a remembered song, one midnight on a ferry in the centre of Circular Quay"". The text of the poem is reproduced on a banister in Kenneth Slessor Park in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood. Five Bells ""Five Bells"" (1939) is a meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published as the title poem in the author's collection ""Five Bells : XX Poems"", and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. The poem is a meditative piece based on a ship's bell ringing five bells - which occurs at either 2:30, 6:30,"
"For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica song) ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" is a song by American thrash metal band Metallica. It was first released on the group's second album, ""Ride the Lightning"" (1984). In 1985, Elektra Records released it as a promotional single, with both an edited and full-length versions. The song is one of their most popular; by March 2018, it ranked number five on Metallica's live performance count. Several live albums and video albums include the song. The song was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel of the same name about the dishonor of modern warfare and"
"Bells"" for high soprano and ten instruments, using Poe's text in its entirety although in Dutch. The piece was premiered in London, and has appeared on a CD from Bridge Records, New York. MC Lars, a Nerdcore Hip hop musician sang a complete version of the poem on his 2012 ""Edgar Allan Poe EP"" titled ""(Rock) The Bells"". The song may be listened to freely on his Bandcamp page. The Bells (poem) ""The Bells"" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in 1849. It is perhaps best known for the"
"poem, including the flag imagery and some of the wording, is derived from an earlier song by Key, also set to the tune of ""The Anacreontic Song"". The song, known as ""When the Warrior Returns"", was written in honor of Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart on their return from the First Barbary War. Absent elaboration by Francis Scott Key prior to his death in 1843, some have speculated in modern times about the meaning of phrases or verses. According to British historian Robin Blackburn, the words ""the hireling and slave"" allude to the thousands of ex-slaves in the British ranks"
"in 1940, extracted the title of his famous novel ""For Whom The Bell Tolls"":<poem> 'No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ' </poem> Many translations in magazines such as: James S. Holmes James Stratton Holmes (Collins, May 2, 1924 - Amsterdam, November 6, 1986) was a Dutch poet and translator. He was born in the United States, in Collins, Iowa,"
"fire trucks and city website show the symbol of a bell reading ""Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight."" A bell in the center of Litchfield commemorates the poem and Thorpe's time spent in the town. Rose Hartwick Thorpe Rose Hartwick Thorpe (July 18, 1850 – July 19, 1939) was an American poet and writer, remembered largely for the narrative poem, ""Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight"" (1867), which gained national popularity. It was translated into nearly every language of the world, and was universally recognized as a veritable classic. Other poems followed, among them being ""The Station Agent's Story,"" ""Red Cross,"" and"
"was sociable and gay.<br> Used to lead 'em down the middle jest a prancin' to the fiddle—<br> Never thought of goin' home till the break of day.<br> No! there ain't no chance for sleepin', for the memories come a creepin',<br> And sometimes you think you hear the voices call;<br> When a feller starts a draggin' to the home ranch with the wagon—<br> When they've finished shippin' cattle in the fall. Bruce Kiskaddon Bruce Kiskaddon (1878–1950) has been called the quintessential cowboy poet of the 20th century and is widely considered to be the cowboy poet laureate of America. His poems"
"an inspirational figure of the Civil War, as well as United States history. In 1953 composer Roy Harris wrote a chamber cantata based upon this poem, scored for mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, and piano. A setting by Florence Price, for mixed voices, orchestra, and organ, also exists. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight is a 1914 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It portrays Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Springfield, Illinois, stirred from his eternal sleep, a man, who even in death, is burdened by the tragedies of the modern world. At the time the poem"
"Boots (poem) ""Boots"" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection ""The Five Nations"". ""Boots"" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching by forced marches in South Africa during the Second Boer War (which had ended in 1902). It has been said that if the first four words in each line are read at the rate of two words to the second, that gives the time to which the British foot soldier was accustomed to march. The poem was set to music for low male"
"in 1875. It was included in an anthology he edited titled ""Poems of Places"" in 1877 and also republished after his death in ""Through Italy with the Poets"" in 1908. According to scholar William Charvat, the poem is like many of Longfellow's later writings in that it touches upon the poet's struggle with fame. Like the birds in the poem, he questions if his readers will understand his message. The Sermon of St. Francis ""The Sermon of St. Francis"" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). It is part of his collection ""Birds of Passage"". The poem"
"the revolution?— All, all are sleeping on the hill. They brought them dead sons from the war, And daughters whom life had crushed, And their children fatherless, crying— All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill. Where is Old Fiddler Jones Who played with life all his ninety years, Braving the sleet with bared breast, Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin, Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven? Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago, Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove, Of what Abe Lincoln said One time at Springfield. Each following poem"
"For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.</poem> Crossing the Bar ""Crossing the Bar"" is an 1889 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It is considered that Tennyson wrote it in elegy; the poem has a tone of finality and the narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the ""sandbar"" between river of life, with its outgoing ""flood"", and the ocean that lies beyond [death], the ""boundless deep"", to which we return. Tennyson is believed"
"shoots, Why do you walk through the fields in boots, When the grass is soft as the breast of coots ... </poem> The first lines of this poem were spoken by a character in Agatha Christie's novel Murder is Easy. Frances Cornford Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet; because of the similarity of her Christian name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as ""FCD"" and after her marriage as ""FCC"" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as ""FMC"". Her father Sir"
"Sleep and Poetry ""Sleep and Poetry"" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats. It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. It is often cited as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic, such as: ""First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora, and old Pan ... I must pass them for a nobler life,/Where I may find the agonies, the strife /Of human hearts"" (101-102; 123-125). Furthermore, Keats defends his early ""bower-centric"" subject matter, which hearkens back to the classical"
"The Dying Negro The Dying Negro: A Poetical Epistle was a 1773 abolitionist poem published in England, by John Bicknell and Thomas Day. It has been called ""the first significant piece of verse propaganda directed explicitly against the English slave systems"". It was quoted in ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"" of 1789. The first draft of this pioneering work of abolitionist literature was written by Bicknell. Published versions were edited by Day, from 1773. The first edition was anonymous; in all there were six editions. The work was dedicated to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A substantial introduction by"
"Ring Out, Wild Bells ""Ring Out, Wild Bells"" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Published in 1850, the year he was appointed Poet Laureate, it forms part of ""In Memoriam"", Tennyson's elegy to Arthur Henry Hallam, his sister's fiancé who died at the age of twenty-two. According to a story widely held in Waltham Abbey, and repeated on many websites (see two examples below), the 'wild bells' in question were the bells of the Abbey Church. According to the local story, Tennyson was staying at High Beach in the vicinity and heard the bells being rung on New Year's"
"Song of the Bell The ""Song of the Bell"" (German: ""Das Lied von der Glocke"", also translated as ""The Lay of the Bell"") is a poem that the German poet Friedrich Schiller published in 1798. It is one of the most famous poems of German literature and with 430 lines also one of the longest. In it, Schiller combines a knowledgeable technical description of a bell founding with points of view and comments on human life, its possibilities and risks. As a small boy Schiller came in contact with the trade of bell founding because Georg Friderich Neubert, the son"
"To Our Beloved Dead ""To Our Beloved Dead"" is a poem by the Australian poet Professor Leslie Holdsworth Allen. A sandstone war memorial was designed by architect William Hardy Wilson for Newington College and was dedicated on 11 May 1922 by the Governor-General of Australia, Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster. Allen wrote the poem in memory of the occasion. The memorial comprises a semi-circular wall and seat, with pillars surmounted by white stone urns at either end and a column with a sundial in the centre. The inscriptions on the wall and sundial read: <poem> Approach this shrine of stone"
"they were all written and engraved on walls and other parts of Friar Park, the mansion bought by Harrison which once belonged to Sir Frank. The final song of ""Ballads for Christmas"" by Andrew Downes for high voices and harp. More recently, Jonathan Ward of Magdalen College School composed a setting, while Wiltshire-based composer Stuart Brown has used it as the opening of his song cycle ""Idylls"", written in 2014 for the London-based soprano Chen Wang. Ring Out, Wild Bells ""Ring Out, Wild Bells"" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Published in 1850, the year he was appointed Poet"
"De Levendes Land De Levendes Land (""Land of the Living"") is a hymn written in 1824 by the Danish theologian and priest, N. F. S. Grundtvig. It is composed in a metre similar to a famous hymn, ""Far Verden, far vel"" (""Farewell, world, farewell"") by Thomas Kingo but unlike its baroque model, Grundtvig's work carries a more optimistic message, expressing faith in the love and grace of God. The poem was written at a critical time in Grundtvig's life but lends voice to his belief that with God's love one can find happiness in life. In 2006 it was named"
"Parlement of Foules The Parlement of Foules (also known as the ""Parliament of Foules"", ""Parlement of Briddes"", ""Assembly of Fowls"", ""Assemble of Foules"", or ""The Parliament of Birds"") is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?–1400) made up of approximately 700 lines. The poem is in the form of a dream vision in rhyme royal stanza and contains one of the earliest references to the idea that St. Valentine's Day is a special day for lovers. The poem begins with the narrator reading Cicero’s ""Somnium Scipionis"" in the hope of learning some ""certeyn thing"". When he falls asleep Scipio Africanus the"
"Ubique (poem) ""Ubique"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Boer War, published in ""The Five Nations"" in 1903. Its title is derived from the Motto and Battle Honour of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, however the opening lines are attributed to the lack of knowledge of Latin within the ordinary ranks of the Gunners. Ubique is pronounced ""Ooh-Bee-Kway"", but is generally pronounced as ""You-Bee-Kway"". T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". Ubique (""everywhere"" in Latin) is the motto of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. It was given to"