3 Poems for Memorial Day
The Daily Poem
Goldberry Studios
4.6 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Today is Memorial Day so in this episode we present three notable poems from among the many memorable poems of the World War I era. Memory eternal to all of the brave men and women who gave up their lives in service of their country.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm David Kern, and today is Monday, May 29, 2023. |
| 0:09.2 | So today is Memorial Day. |
| 0:11.6 | So I'm going to do things slightly different. |
| 0:14.1 | Normally, as you know, I read one poem, offer a few comments on it, and then I read it again. |
| 0:19.5 | Today I'm going to read three poems in honor of |
| 0:22.9 | Memorial Day, in honor of the servicemen and women who lost their lives. So I'm going to read three |
| 0:29.0 | different poems from the World War I English poets, and then I'm going to just read those poems |
| 0:35.0 | and kind of let them stand. So no comments today, but three separate |
| 0:38.7 | poems. The first poem is by an English poet, Rupert Brooke, who lived from 1887 to 1915. And this is his, |
| 0:46.4 | his most popular, at least his most famous poem. It's called The Soldier. This is how it goes. |
| 0:56.0 | If I should die, think only this of me, that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. |
| 1:07.7 | There shall be in that rich earth, a richer dust concealed. |
| 1:12.6 | A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, gave once her flowers to love, her ways to roam, |
| 1:22.6 | a body of England's, breathing English air, washed by the rivers blessed by sons of home. |
| 1:32.7 | And think this heart, all evil shed away. |
| 1:36.5 | A pulse in the eternal mind no less gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. |
| 1:44.4 | Her sights and sounds, dreams happy as her day, |
| 1:49.5 | and laughter learned to friends, |
| 1:52.7 | and gentleness in hearts at peace under an English heaven. |
| 2:02.8 | The next poem that I'm going to read is by an English poet named Anna Gordon |
| 2:08.0 | Keown, who lived from 1899 to 1957. |
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