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Invictus
If

High Wood
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Dulce et Decorum Est
I Stood with the Dead
In Flanders Fields
The Soldier

Seven Ages of Man
Once more unto the breach
St Crispin's Day

John Hewitt
Rewriting the Soundbite
Carrickfergus

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Other selected works

I truly have no idea where, when or by whom this photo was taken. But it's the only slightly 'arty' photo I could find to go with the poetry. Oh, by the way, it isn't me. No really. It's actually my grandfather! Spot the resemblance.

I write for my own kind
I do not pitch my voice
that every phrase be heaard
by those who have no choice:
their quality of mind
must be withdrawn and till,
as moth that answers moth
across a roaring hill.
- John Hewitt

The selection of works below are ones I consider motivational, that strike a resonance or capture the spirit of an era or event

An anthology of my own works is listed here.


Inspirational War Poems


William Earnest Henley - Invictus

Rudyard Kipling - If

 


Philip Johnston (1918) - High Wood

Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth

Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est

Siegfried Sassoon - I Stood With the Dead

John McCrae - In Flanders Fields

Rupert Brooke - The Soldier (If I should die ...)

William Shakespeare Irish Poetry

Seven Ages of Man

Once more unto the breach!

St. Crispin's Day


John Hewitt - Selected extracts

Lyndsay Hodges - Rewriting the soundbite

traditional Irish - Carrickfergus

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