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The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge

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Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet, served in an Irish battalion ("The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers") of the British Army during World War I. His first volume of poems was published while he served, in 1915; two more were published posthumously, and were followed by this collection of complete works in 1919. He and five comrades had been killed by an exploding shell during the third battle of Ypres (July 1917).

His poems reflect his love for his native rural countryside, tinged with loss arising from the war. From his frequent use of a blackbird motif, he was known as the "Poet of the Blackbird."

Of him, the poet John Drinkwater wrote: "His poetry exults me, while not so his death.... to those who know what poetry is, the untimely death of a man like Ledwidge is nothing but calamity." - Summary by Nemo (3 hr 7 min)

Chapters

Introduction to Songs of the Fields

9:08

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Introduction to Songs of Peace

5:01

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Introduction to Last Songs

2:46

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Songs of the Fields: To My Best Friend

1:18

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Behind the Closed Eye

1:44

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Bound to the Mast

2:09

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To A Linnet in a Cage

1:16

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A Twilight in Middle March

1:22

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Spring

1:25

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Desire in Spring

1:03

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A Rainy Day in April

2:25

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A Song of April

1:22

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The Broken Tryst

1:15

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Thoughts at the Trysting Stile

2:16

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Evening in May

1:23

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An Attempt at a City Sunset

1:32

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Waiting

1:06

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The Singer's Muse

1:25

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Inamorata

1:40

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The Wife of Llew

1:07

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The Hills

1:40

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June

1:47

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In Manchester

1:25

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Music on Water

2:20

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To M. McG

1:19

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In the Dusk

1:04

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The Death of Ailill

1:52

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August

1:01

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The Visitation of Peace

4:12

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Before the Tears

1:21

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God's Remembrance

1:32

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An Old Pain

3:27

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The Lost Ones

1:12

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All-Hallows Eve

1:47

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A Memory

3:20

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A Song

1:15

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A Fear

0:53

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The Coming Poet

1:03

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The Vision on the Brink

1:53

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To Lord Dunsany

1:29

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On an Oaten Straw

1:04

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Evening in February

0:59

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The Sister

1:05

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Before the War of Cooley

2:16

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Low-Moon Land

1:09

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The Sorrow of Findebar

2:06

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On Dream Water

0:58

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The Death of Sualtem

3:09

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The Maid in Low-Moon Land

0:58

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The Death of Leag, Cuchulain's Charioteer

2:26

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The Passing of Caoilte

1:49

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Growing Old

1:25

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After My Last Song

1:29

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Songs of Peace: A Dream of Artemis

11:48

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A Little Boy in the Morning

1:14

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To A Distant One

1:50

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The Place

1:21

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May

1:15

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To Eilish of the Fair Hair

1:18

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Crewbrawn

0:39

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Evening in England

1:11

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Crocknaharna

1:14

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In the Mediterranean- Going to the War

0:46

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The Gardener

1:20

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Autumn Evening in Serbia

0:52

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Nocturne

0:50

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Spring and Autumn

0:45

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The Departure of Proserpine

2:19

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The Home-Coming of the Sheep

1:07

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When Love and Beauty Wander Away

1:00

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My Mother

1:14

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Song

0:43

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To One Dead

0:46

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The Resurrection

0:43

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The Shadow People

1:14

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An Old Desire

0:53

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Thomas McDonagh

0:49

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The Wedding Morning

0:58

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The Blackbirds

1:14

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The Lure

1:05

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Thro' Bogac Ban

0:50

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Fate

0:54

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Evening Clouds

1:08

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Song

0:46

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The Herons

0:36

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In the Shadows

0:38

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The Ships of Arcady

0:53

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After

0:40

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To One Weeping

0:39

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A Dream Dance

0:49

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By Faughan

1:05

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In September

0:45

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Last Songs: To An Old Quill of Lord Dunsany's

1:56

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To A Sparrow

1:14

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Old Clo'

1:00

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Youth

0:50

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The Little Children

0:54

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Autumn

1:04

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Ireland

1:04

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Lady Fair

1:03

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At a Poet's Grave

0:46

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After Court Martial

0:48

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A Mother's Song

0:38

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At Currabwee

1:17

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Song-time is Over

0:43

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Una Bawn

0:40

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Spring Love

0:52

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Soliloquy

1:32

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Dawn

0:39

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Ceol Sidhe

1:00

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The Rushes

1:00

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The Dead Kings

1:58

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In France

0:42

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Had I A Golden Pound

0:58

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Fairies

0:50

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In a Cafe

0:53

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Spring

1:14

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Pan

0:49

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With Flowers

0:42

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The Find

0:51

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A Fairy Hunt

1:02

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To One Who Comes Now and Then

1:48

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The Sylph

0:39

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Home

0:51

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The Lanawn Shee

5:26

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