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  • Date Published: October 2014
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781107432949

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  • Alec de Candole was a poet of WWI who was killed in action on the night of September 3, 1918 at the age of 21. This book, first published in 1920, contains a selection of 45 of his shorter poems, beginning with poems he wrote at school and concluding with a poem written the day before his death. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English literature or wartime poetry.

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    • Date Published: October 2014
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781107432949
    • length: 96 pages
    • dimensions: 210 x 148 x 6 mm
    • weight: 0.34kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. 'Not once, but often'
    2. 'O sleep, sweet sleep'
    3. Time
    4. 'O God, for truth'
    5. In memoriam
    6. 'The old, the bitter, everlasting why'
    7. Avalon
    8. 'I have not lived in vain'
    9. Weariness
    10. 'The truth of God is known'
    11. War
    12. Sunset
    13. Friendship
    14. 'The soil of the land is holy'
    15. Nightfall
    16. 'As one that stands'
    17. Eheu fugaces
    18. 'The sunset clouds'
    19. 'The wind that blustered'
    20. Landabunt alii
    21. 'Changeful with glow'
    22. 'For them, the bitterness of death'
    23. 'In a rough barn we knelt'
    24. On a picture in Rome
    25. 'The breath of God'
    26. On a sonnet of Rupert Brooke
    27. Ώn oỷk hn ằzioc o kocmoc
    28. In memoriam (J. N. E.)
    29. Elegy
    30. Christmas, 1917
    31. Salisbury Cathedral
    32. England (two sonnets)
    33. Heredity
    34. 'Here's to the glory of life'
    35. The poets
    36. 'We gaze upon the apple-flower'
    37. The burial of Arthur
    38. Proficiscenti (two sonnets)
    39. Lincoln Minster
    40. Uti conviva satur
    41. In cruce regnans
    42. 'As one who wanders'
    43. 'And if a bullet'
    44. 'Hast thou beheld a night'
    45. 'When the last long trek is over'.

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    Alec de Candole

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