Old song ringing for the dead

[sovay]

However, I suppose we'll stick it, if we don't there are still some good poets left who might write me a decent epitaph.

—Isaac Rosenberg, 8 February 1917

Comments

[cmcmck]

I've been quoting Rosenberg myself today as it seemed apt.

[sovay]

I've been quoting Rosenberg myself today as it seemed apt.

He is one of my touchstones. I wrote a ghost poem for him once.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

<3 I love his poem "Returning, we hear the larks".

[sovay]

I love his poem "Returning, we hear the larks".

"Break of Day in the Trenches" is the one I always think of first with him, but all of them are worth knowing.