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JamesPlaskett: Broken and pierced, hung on the wire, by this dearest act
The sons of man redeem for us the life of our desire
O Christ how often since the world began!
Sir Henry Newbolt
MoneyTreeFR: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one"
Sir Henry Newbolt
RudyHavenstein: The sand of the desert is sodden red
Red with the wreck of a square that broke
The Gatling’s jammed and the colonel dead
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke
The river of death has brimmed his banks
And England’s far, and Honour a name
- Sir Henry Newbolt, Vitai Lampada
loxleybottomsi: Drake's Drum - Charles Villiers Stanford
TheRealSif: “The unit's motto "Play the Game" was taken from "Vitai Lampada" ("They Pass On The Torch of Life"), a poem written in 1892 by Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938).”
JimiBKatz: Sir Henry Newbolt, Bilston
oroyalarchives: Colonel T. Cadell, V.C., C.B., wrote it for The Times; this story appeared in John Buchan’s Lord Minto, A Memoir; and when Sir Henry J. Newbolt heard this story, he turned into a poem called "The Ballad of Sir Pertab Singh; OR, A Soldier's Faith"
aamanlamba: The War Films, Sir Henry Newbolt, 1918
MartinSkold2: “…The river of death has brimmed his banks,
And England's far, and Honour a name,
But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks:
'Play up! play up! and play the game!'”
—Sir Henry Newbolt, “Vitaï Lampada”
ratemyloo: our 1st ep sir Henry newbolt bilston
nasirjamal594: Sir Henry Newbolt that the English public is more political than intellectual — Newbolt’s phrase is “interested in politics rather than literature.”1918
marymod1: Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore, Strike et when your powder’s runnin’ low; If the Dons sight Devon, I’ll quit the port o’ Heaven, An’ drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago.
From Drake’s Drum by Sir Henry Newbolt
Richard_Autism: Play up! Play up! and play the game! A line from the poem Vitaï Lampada by Sir Henry John Newbolt.
Hope, it is the quint essential human delusion & it is simultaneously the source of your strength and your greatest weakness. The architect in Matrix Reloaded.
Orwell_Society: Let anyone compare the poem John Cornford wrote not long before he was killed (‘Before the Storming of Huesca’) with Sir Henry Newbolt’s ‘There’s a breathless hush in the Close tonight’. ... it will be seen that the emotional content of the two poems is almost exactly the same.
ScuffleThe: Apologies to Sir Henry Newbolt
There's a breathless hush in the hall to-night
Ten to make and the wards to win...
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noisyseagull: "Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?" - Drake's Drum - Sir Henry Newbolt.
PictureSporting: It featured in a famous poem by Sir Henry Newbolt – Vitaї Lampada
There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night
Ten to make and the match to win
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in
DerekGilletteCo: "Let us build for the years we shall not see," was an often repeated phrase used by Thomas Walker (1859-1912), mentor and fellow-missionary/evangelist alongside Amy Carmichael.
The phrase may have been pulled from a poem by Sir Henry John Newbolt, "The Building Of The Temple."
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There's a breathless hush in the hall to-night
Ten to make and the wards to win..
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ScuffleThe: Apologies to Sir Henry Newbolt
There's a breathless hush in the hall to-night
Ten to make and the wards to win
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ScuffleThe: Apologies to Sir Henry Newbolt
There's a breathless hush in the hall to-night
Ten to make and the wards to win
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tonyoconn1: “Remember here in peace those who in tumult of war by sea, on land, in air, for us and for our victory endured unto death” (On the frieze of the colonnade - words composed by Sir Henry Newbolt) 1928.
ScuffleThe: Apologies to Sir Henry Newbolt
There's a breathless hush in the hall to-night
Ten to make and the wards to win...
The Scuffle Continues : Heroic Vote Count:
ScuffleThe: Apologies to Sir Henry Newbolt
There's a breathless hush in the hall to-night
Ten to make and the wards to win
The Scuffle Continues : Heroic Vote Count:
ScuffleThe: Apologies to Sir Henry Newbolt
There's a breathless hush in the hall to-night
Ten to make and the wards to win
The Scuffle Continues : Heroic Vote Count:
SimonUbsdell: I was looking for a half-remembered line from Henry Newbolt and was brought up short to read once again "The Guides at Cabul".
It's an endless loop of tragedy.
McKelveyHouston: CNI News Magazine August 16
+Poem for today
Vitai Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt
+Pointers for prayer
+Speaking to the Soul
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JohnRedwood17: One point in it, five minutes to go: what would Sir Henry Newbolt make of it?
Jodha4life: The subjectmatter and artists were chosen by Sir Henry Newbolt, the unifying theme being 'The Building of Britain', during the eight centuries from King Alfred to Queen Anne.
leeannkhoh: Outward Bound by Sir Henry Newbolt
LeeAnnHowlettVO: Outward Bound : Sir Henry Newbolt : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
MJRosenspire: “Now the sunset's breezes shiver,
And she's fading down the river,
But in England's song for ever
She's the Fighting Téméraire.”
-Sir Henry Newbolt
wherrypilgrim: British writer Sir Henry Newbolt died April 19, 1938. His poem “Vitai Lampada” compares battle to a competitive school sporting event. It’s refrain “Play up! play up! and play the game!” was used in World War I recruiting posters:
Orvil_Pym: Oct 28, 1942
[Letter from Edith Sitwell]
How sad it was that my own form-master would make us learn only Kipling, sometimes Sir Henry Newbolt and ONCE Byron... A terrible state of affairs... I am almost resigned to being nearly illiterate.
brymcclure: ‘Qui procul hinc,’ are taken from the final lines of the poem Clifton Chapel by Sir Henry Newbolt. Published in 1908, the poem describes a father speaking to his son of the chapel in Clifton College and of a memorial in Latin in the church. The Latin sections roughly translate to
TateArtBot: Sir Henry Newbolt, William Strang, 1897
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asiL_Johnson: Striking games material ranging from:-
""Vitaï Lampada" by Sir Henry Newbolt
'Play up, play up and play the game' Vs Pete the cat : Play ball by James Dean.
The_North_Blood: Sir Henry Newbolt, a renowned English Poet, has written a poem about the murder of Hayward. The poem evokes a feeling of sadness and nostalgia.
He Fell Among Thieves
’Ye have robb’d,’ said he, ‘ye have slaughter’d and made an end,
Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead:
tavarish_: He was famous enough for a fairly renowned English poet of the time, Sir Henry Newbolt to write a poem describing his death.
british_north: This they all with a joyful mind
Bear through life like a torch in flame,
And falling fling to the host behind -
"Play up! play up! and play the game!
Sir Henry Newbolt
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longitude0: "Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore,
Strike et when your powder's runnin' low;
If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven,
An' drum them up the Channel as we drumm'd them long ago." Sir Henry Newbolt.
Autiauto: “To count the life of battle good
And dear the lead that gave you birth
And dearer yet the brotherhood
That binds the brave of all the earth”
- Sir Henry Newbolt
williamRN7: "Captain, art thou sleeping there below?" 'Drake's Drum', Sir Henry John Newbolt, (6 June 1862 – 19 April 1938)
wherrypilgrim: Sir Henry Newbolt ("Play up! And play the game!") died 19 April 1938. His poem for those who don't like poetry:
SGasperWVU: "To set the cause above renown,
To love the game beyond the prize,
To honor, while you strike him down,
The foe that comes with fearless eyes."
-Sir Henry Newbolt
DanielPDykes: Play up! Play up! And play the game - Sir Henry Newbolt
roderickadieu: Somerset Churches
Abbotsleigh - Charles II took shelter nearby after Battle of Worcester
Aisholt - a Thankful Village & home of poet Sir Henry Newbolt
Alford - next to the River Brue
Aller - Where Alfred the Great converted King Guthrum of the Danes to Christianity
r0g3rd4y: Vitaï Lampada - Sir Henry Newbolt
The sand of the desert is sodden red,—
Red with the wreck of a square that broke; —
The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
kateejamieson: Today the £20 featuring "The Fighting Temeraire" enters circulation. Here's a poem about the famous ship, written by Sir Henry Newbolt.
It mentions gunners, what can I say?
JoeDan1024: Clifton Chapel, by Sir Henry Newbolt.
That or Jabberwocky, idk.
DaviesRicky: How apt this picture is. It's symbolism is the fading star of the power and influence of Great Britain: ''And she's fading down the river, But in England's song for ever, She's the Fighting Téméraire."
Sir Henry Newbolt 'The Fighting Temeraire'
CwmavonHistory: “He Fell Among Thieves” By Sir Henry Newbolt. Set to music by D. Afan Thomas (Cwmavon). The poem/ballad is about the death of George W Hayward, a 19th century British explorer who was decapitated by sword in 1870 when on the verge of reaching the Oxus River.
JonathanBoff: 'When I looked into Douglas Haig I saw what is really great- perfect acceptance, which means perfect faith.' Sir Henry Newbolt, quoted in Paul Fussell, "The Great War and Modern Memory", p. 26
FiresideBy: Listen to St George's Day by Sir Henry Newbolt at By The Fireside! It's British, it's patriotic and its FREE!!...
YTAudioBooks: Vitai Lampada | Sir Henry Newbolt | Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry), Poetry | English:
dreamboatme: â¤ï¸â¤ï¸â¤ï¸this is absolutely wonderful. The confluence of the metaphor n the literal is in such harmonious synergy ......
