Who is Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1891. He worked for the British Museum from 1893 until his retirement in 1933. In 1904 he married the historian Cicely Margaret Powell, with whom he had three daughters, including the artist Nicolete Gray.Moved by the casualties of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, Binyon wrote his most famous work "For the Fallen", which is often recited at Remembrance Sunday services in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In 1915, he volunteered as a hospital orde...
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Laurence Binyon Poems
- O World, Be Nobler
O world, be nobler, for her sake!
If she but knew thee what thou art,
What wrongs are borne, what deeds are done
In thee, beneath thy daily sun,... - Invocation To Youth
Come then, as ever, like the wind at morning!
Joyous, O Youth, in the agèd world renew
Freshness to feel the eternities around it,
Rain, stars and clouds, light and the sacred dew....
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Welfordwrites: for the fallen, a poem by laurence binyon. a single stanza from this poem by a minor part-time poet has reverberated down the years ever since world war i.Ourtrueabode: ‘such was his achievement as conqueror. his greater achievement as a ruler was to weld this collection of different states, different races, different religions, into a whole. it was accomplished by elaborate organisation.’ laurence binyon
Donald_from_hi: "they shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them." - laurence binyon, "for the fallen" (1914)
Terminallytang1: to the end, to the end we remain - laurence binyon
Danieldvince: having owned this book for just about a year, it kept a secret from me. ‘the death of adam and other poems’ by laurence binyon, inscribed to artist henry winslow in 1911. flicking to the rear endpapers, i discovered a sketch which appears to be in winslow’s hand…
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