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"Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective of an unborn child, the poem expresses the author's fear at what the world's tyranny can do to the innocence of a child and blames the human race for the destruction that was gripping the world at the time.
Kennelly's poetry can be scabrous, down-to-earth, and colloquial. He avoided intellectual pretension and literary posturing, and his attitude to poetic language could be summed up in the title of one of his epic poems, "Poetry my Arse". [7] Another long (400-page) epic poem, "The Book of Judas", published in 1991, topped the Irish best-seller ...
Blind Fireworks (1929, mainly considered by MacNeice to be juvenilia and excluded from the 1949 Collected Poems) Poems (1935) Letters from Iceland (1937, with W. H. Auden, poetry and prose) The Earth Compels (1938) Autumn Journal (1939) The Last Ditch (1940) Selected Poems (1940) Plant and Phantom (1941) Springboard (1944) Prayer Before Birth ...
Nocturnal, three poems for mixed chorus and piano (1965, Cork Festival 1966) Samson and the Gates of Gaza, cantata for chorus and orchestra, text Vachel Lindsay (1963-4) And Death Shall Have No Dominion, chorus and ensemble, text Dylan Thomas (1969) Prayer before Birth for female chorus and piano, text Louis MacNeice (1972)
He was a poet who gave a lifetime of service to the art of poetry both in English and Spanish. He has been described as a classical modernist, a poet of modern life. Smith founded New Writers Press in Dublin in 1967 (together with Trevor Joyce and his wife, Irene Smith) and was responsible for the publication of over seventy books and magazines.
Hewitt began experimenting with poetry while still a schoolboy at Methodist College in the 1920s. Typically thorough, his notebooks from these years are filled with hundreds of poems, in dozens of styles; Hewitt's main influences at this time included William Blake, William Morris and W. B. Yeats, and for the most part the verse is either highly romantic, or strongly socialist, a theme which ...
However, the prayer actually dates to the early 14th century and was possibly written by Pope John XXII, but its authorship remains uncertain. It has been found in a number of prayer books printed during the youth of Ignatius and is in manuscripts which were written 100 years before his birth.
"Gartan Mother's Lullaby" is an old Irish song and poem written by Herbert Hughes and Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil, first published in Songs of Uladh [Ulster] in 1904. [1] Hughes collected the traditional melody in Donegal the previous year and Campbell wrote the lyrics. The song is a lullaby by a mother, from the parish of Gartan in County Donegal ...