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1934, Branches Green, poetry (including "Something Told the Wild Geese" [15]) 1934, Susanna B And William C, fiction; 1934, God's Pocket, historical non-fiction; 1935, Time Out Of Mind, fiction; 1936, Fear Is the Thorn, poetry; 1936, First Class Matter: A Comedy in One Act, drama; 1937, To See Ourselves, by Field and her husband Arthur Pederson ...
The Wild Geese, a conversation between the author and the North Wind, is a melancholic poem on the theme of homesickness. It was set to music as Norlan' Wind and popularised by Angus singer and songmaker Jim Reid, [8] who also set to music other poems by Jacob and those other Angus poets such as Marion Angus and Helen Cruikshank. [9]
The date of creation of the lyrics are unknown. The inspiration for the poem is described in his memoirs The Wanderer Between Two Worlds: . I was lying as a war volunteer on the forest clearing plowed by grenades as I was a hundred nights before as a listening post and stared into the flickering light of the stormy night which was criss-crossed by the restless spotlights on German and French ...
A witness told an officer ahead of Comer’s citation that he saw a “white male, in his late fifties or early sixties” riding a lawnmower before getting off and shooting two geese with a ...
Lawless wrote nineteen works of fiction, biography, history, nature studies and poetry, many of which were widely read at the time. She is increasingly considered a major fiction writer of the late nineteenth century, and an early modernist innovator. She is often remembered for her Wild Geese poems (1902). Her books were:
The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday identified the victims of the school shooting as Rubi Patricia Vergara, 14, and Erin West, 42.
He said: "Before you know it, my barber had taken his phone out and had gone up to the window and started recording. "I then saw the guy outside swing for the police officer and throw him down on ...
The title refers to the Wild Geese: the Irish soldiers who had left to serve in continental European armies since the 16th century. The major contributors were John Flood, John Boyle O'Reilly and John Sarsfield Casey. The documents provide insight into life aboard ship. The documents contain songs, stories, articles, advice, poems, and even comedy.