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MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it." ~ Winifred Mary Letts
xhaworthx: The Soldiers Memorial Gate was dedicated in 1921. A quote from ‘The Spires of Oxford’ by Winifred M. Letts is engraved on the arch along with a quote from ‘Sacrifice’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
xhaworthx: They gave their merry youth away
For country and for God.
God rest you, happy gentlemen,
Who laid your good lives down.
from The Spires of Oxford by Winifred M. Letts
Soldiers Arch Brown University honors 42 men (students, alumni & 1 faculty member) who lost their lives in WWI.
karenievers: English poet Winifred M. Letts married Wm H.F. Verschoyle of Kildare. Whether Wicklow or Clare, ‘Irish Skies’ are magical! ‘I dream I see the Wicklow hills by evening sunlight kissed, An' every glen and valley there brimful of radiant mist—
The jewelled sky topaz and amethyst.’
wherrypilgrim: "Will you come back to us, men of our hearts....
...Will you leave the alien graves where you sleep and steal away
To see the gables and eaves of home grow dark in the evening light?"
Winifred Letts, Hallowe'en, 1915"
Full poem here:
DarrenPatrickA1: Winifred Mable Letts.
A forgotten poet?
LeonardDon4: Stopped in my tracks when I read this. Brave. Reminds me of Winifred Mabel Letts “Deserters” when I read this. The ultimate price paid. Worth a moment to reflect on the freedoms we enjoy. Silence.
Edel_Hanley_: Lovely to see poet Winifred M. Letts getting some much deserved attention ❤️
MelanieJaxn: O men of the manor and moated hall and farm,
Come back to-night, treading softly over the grass;
The dew of the autumn dusk will not betray where you pass;
The watchful dog may stir in his sleep but he’ll raise no hoarse alarm. -Winifred Letts
CasparWort: Next, this poem from the First World War. ‘The Deserter’ by Winifred Letts. The repeated line ‘an English bullet in his heart’ particularly affects me.
LucyLondon7: A friend in Ireland sent me this link to a newspaper report about WW1 female poet and military masseuse Winifred Mabel Letts
alexcollege: The work of playwright, poet, masseuse and alumna Winifred M Letts was celebrated last month with the unveiling of a memorial at Rathcoole Parish Church.
dublinpeople: A memorial to celebrate the work of Winifred Mabel Letts was opened by President Michael D. Higgins at Rathcoole Parish Church on June 8th.
The event celebrated the work of the wartime poet who is laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the cemetery
YeSecondPost: Great to be there as Michael D doke at the new memorial to the life of wartime poet Winifred Letts (of which the mammy's sculpture was part)
YeSecondPost: There's a symposium based around Winifred Letts' work at Tallaght Library tomorrow afternoon
YeSecondPost: Michael D gave a 20-page speech in memorial to underknown Irish poet Winifred Letts at 11 this morning in Rathcoole and cheering on the Boys in Green at the Aviva at eight. What a competitor.
PresidentIRL: President Higgins today attended an event at Rathcoole Church to commemorate the life and achievements of novelist, poet and playwright Winifred Mabel Letts on the 50th anniversary of her death.
Cherteapet: ✝That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. Winifred Mary Letts
LucyLondon7: Sunday 1 May: Widnes Wild Ladies 0 – Bristol Huskies 20
The Winifred Mabel Letts memorial MVP awards sponsored by Poet In Residence Lucy London went to Nora Egri for Bristol and Charlotte Cramp for Widnes, and were presented by match volunteer Thomas Horner.
MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
-Winifred Mary Letts
MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
- Winifred Mary Letts
LucyLondon7: 3 April 2022: Women’s Premier League (WPL)
Widnes Wild Ladies 4 – Slough Sirens 7
The Winifred Mabel Letts memorial MVP awards sponsored by Widnes Poet In Residence went to Aniko Gaal Slough Sirens & Jemma Brown Widnes, and were presented by match volunteer Tricia Holt.
LucyLondon7: Sun 20th March 2022 Women’s Premier League
Widnes Wild Ladies 3 – Firebees 7
The Winifred Mabel Letts memorial awards sponsored by Poet In Residence L London went to Phebe Dodd for the Firebees & Laura Marcroft for Widnes and were presented by off ice match official Paul Breeze.
MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it." ~ Winifred Mary Letts
BalallyP: The Book of St Brigid, by Colm Keane & Una O’ Hagan is still available to order.
Please contact the Parish Office on 01-2954296 to ensure you receive a copy.
Saint Brigit Passes
by Winifred M. Letts
I thought the winter lingered still
So harsh and
LucyLondon7: Happy St Brigid's Day. This season's MVP Awards for Widnes Wild Women Ice Hockey Team's home matches commemorates WW1 poet & military masseuse Winifred M Letts born in Salford, Lancs UK. She wrote a poem for St. Brigid's Day illustrated by her Step-Daughter, Kathleen Verschoyle.
DorothyHorrible: Tim, An Irish Terrier by Winifred Mary Letts:
LucyLondon7: Well played ladies! The Most Valued Player Awards in memory of WW1 physo & poet Winifred M. Letts 2.1.22 went to
Kingston Diamonds - Megan Day
Widnes Wild ladies - Preston Gennoe
& were presented by WW Match Volunteer Rebecca Clayton. Photos by WW Volunteer P. Breeze
No_way_but_this: If Love of Mine
Winifred M. Letts
If love of mine could witch you back to earth
It would be when the bat is on the wing,
The lawn dew-drenched, the first stars glimmering,
The moon a golden slip of seven nights’ birth.
If prayer of mine could bring you it would be
LucyLondon7: For anyone who doesn't know Winifred M. Letts was a WW1 poet and VAD who worked as a military masseuse ie. a physiotherapist.
LucyLondon7: To find out about the Widnes Wild Women's Ice Hockey Team's 2021 - 2022 season Most Valued Player Awards in memory of WW1 poet and physio Winifred Mabel Letts check out
WidnesWildWomen: Thanks to Lucy for again sponsoring our MVP awards this season. Go check out the link to find out more about the honouree, Winifred Mabel Letts.
MelanieJaxn: “And has he companions to cheer him?”
“Aye, many," she said.
“The candles are lighted, the hearthstones are swept,
The fires glow red.
We shall welcome them out of the night—
Our home-coming dead.”
-Winifred Letts
wherrypilgrim: "O exquisite spring, all this—and yet—and yet—
Kinder to me the bleak face of December
Who gives no cheating hopes, but says—'Remember.'”
--Winifred Letts, Anglo-Irish writer, died June 7, 1972. Her poem "Spring the Cheat" can be read here:
the_eva_seyler: hello i made an A E S T H E T I C
(text lifted from Winifred Letts’ “Alive”, which is apparently public domain but I can’t find what year it was published)
LoveCarousel: The Dream by Winifred M. Letts
LoveCarousel: The Dream by Winifred M. Letts
RevDaniel: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
- Winifred Mary Letts
MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
- Winifred Mary Letts
gravelmans1: Winifred M. Letts.
littlefoible: Day 3176 - Winifred Mary Letts
GardenerPodcast: February 10, 2021 New Owners at Barton Springs Nursery, Benjamin Smith Barton, Winifred Mary Letts, A Sense of the Soil, Cottage Gardens by Claire Masset, and Remembering Laura Ingalls Wilder the Naturalist
LucyLondon7: WW1 poet Winifred Mabel Letts was born on 10th February 1882
AnneLouiseAvery: The verse is by Winifred Mary Letts & the illustration by her stepdaughter Kathleen Verschoyle. It was printed as a broadside by the Cuala Press in Dublin, which was established in 1908 by Elizabeth Yeats, sister of WB Yeats, to publish works by women.
LucyLondon7: 1st February: time to celebrate a very special day in the Irish calendar, the feast day of Saint Brigid. Here is a poem by WW1 Female Poet Winifred Mabel Letts for St. Brigid's Day.
LucyLondon7: Another attempt to correct the error on Wikipedia of the middle name of WW1 poet Winifred M. Letts
DavidClareAbu: With verse by the underrated Winifred M. Letts...!
MelanieJaxn: We have no fear of you, silent shadows, who tread
The leaf-bestrewn paths, the dew-wet lawns. Draw near
To the glowing fire, the empty chair,—we shall not fear,
Being but ghosts for the lack of you, ghosts of our well-beloved dead. -Winifred Letts
POETSorg: "The candles are lighted, the hearthstones are swept,
The fires glow red.
We shall welcome them out of the night—
Our home-coming dead.
—Winifred M. Letts
AndreaCleary_: Have just learned of the phrase 'A soft day, thank God'. Finally, an expression that sums up my love for long, grey days in Ireland. From the poem A Soft Day by Winifred Letts.
Cherteapet: ✝That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. Winifred Mary Letts
MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
-Winifred Mary Letts
MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
-Winifred Mary Letts
MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
- Winifred Mary Letts
ingrid_honkala: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
- Winifred Mary Letts
GardenerPodcast: February 10, 2020 Midwinter Trees, Plant Health Resolutions, Jan Gronovius, Benjamin Smith Barton, Winifred Mary Letts, Jack Heslop-Harrison, Snow Poems, A Land Remembered by Patrick D Smith, Wood Markers, and Laura Ingalls Wilder
LucyLondon7: British WW1 poet Winifred Mabel Letts was born on 10th February 1882
LucyLondon7: 1st February St. Brigid’s Day
eventherose: A little song for the season that’s in it although from the First World War period. words By Winifred Letts, song setting Frank Callery
theasraidance: Hallow-e'en, 1915, a poem by Winifred M. Letts
wakdjunkaga53: Hallow-E'en, 1914 by Winifred M. Letts - Poems |
POETSorg: "The candles are lighted, the hearthstones are swept,
The fires glow red.
We shall welcome them out of the night—
Our home-coming dead."
—Winifred M. Letts
MelanieJaxn: We have no fear of you, silent shadows, who tread
The leaf-bestrewn paths, the dew-wet lawns. Draw near
To the glowing fire, the empty chair,—we shall not fear,
Being but ghosts for the lack of you, ghosts of our well-beloved dead. -Winifred Letts
ArtClickIreland: Latest Art just in! A Soft Day: A soft day occurs regularly where the Atlantic mists envelope the mountains '..The hills wear a shroud Of silver cloud;'- Winifred M. Letts. Abstract seascape painting capturing rain clouds on the horizon. Inspired by the…
LibrarianKatie_: “I saw the spires of Oxford
As I was passing by
The grey spires of Oxford
Against a pearl-grey sky
My heart was with the Oxford men
Who went abroad to die.”
—Winifred Mary Letts (1916)
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This is the Christ Church…
Cherteapet: ✝That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. Winifred Mary Letts
IbiyemiOlawale: By Winifred M. Letts
DanMulhall: A soft day, thank God!
A wind from the south
with a honeyed mouth;
A scent of drenching leaves,
Briar, beech & lime,
White elder-flower &thyme
& the soaking grass smells sweet,
Crushed by my two bare feet,
While the rain drips,
Drips, drips, drips from the eaves
Winifred M. Letts
bdrforbooks: National Poetry Month Day 19
Dead by Winifred M. Letts
For more about National Poetry Month:
eventherose: This is my song setting of Winifred letts' First World War poem Epiphany. Winifred worked as a nurse in the hospita...
gardenerfriends: That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. - Winif...
ACNIWriting: What a brilliant thing underway in Belfast! Winifred Letts remembered now and I think Helen Waddell is to be salute...
SpookyApparel: RT evahalloween ""Hallow-E'en, 1914" by Winifred Letts
evahalloween: "Hallow-E'en, 1914" by Winifred Letts
Best_Poems: The Deserter: Winifred Mary Letts There was a man, - don't mind his name, Whom Fear had...
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famous_poets: What Reward?: Winifred Mary Letts You gave your life. Boy. And you gave a limb: But he who...
famous_poets: Casualty: Winifred Mary Letts John Delaney of the Rifles has been shot. A man we never knew...
famous_poets: The Deserter: Winifred Mary Letts There was a man, - don't mind his name, Whom Fear had...
famous_poets: And She is Spoke: Winifred Mary Letts I'VE heard a half a dozen times Folks call it Reims...
famous_poets: A Dog's Grave: Winifred Mary Letts He sleeps where he would wish, in easy call, Here in a...
spicy_knight: The Call to Arms, by Winifred M. Letts
watefordhistory: By Winifred Mary Letts 1882-1972.
kdietz: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."~Winifred Mary Letts
MelanieJaxn: "That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it."
-Winif...
kcolman7: Tucked inside Dickinson I find...Letts. Thank you, Winifred....
Cherteapet: âœThat God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. Winifred Mary Letts
iprissy: That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.--Winifred Mary Letts
RobinLFuson: That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
~Winifred Mary Letts
PesticideNews: That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.-Winifred Mary Letts
OrganicMadness: That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.-Winifred Mary Letts
OrganicEyes: That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.-Winifred Mary Letts
Neonicotinoids: That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.-Winifred Mary Letts
CleanEnergyView: That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.-Winifred Mary Letts
LucyLondon7: A poem for 1st February by Winifred M. Letts