SERVICES are taking place across the UK today to mark Anzac Day, which celebrates the military efforts of Australian and New Zealand servicemen at Gallipoli during World War I. On this day, the Ode of ...

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old," begins the Ode, which is recited at Anzac Day dawn services and engraved on war memorials and cenotaphs around the nation. The Ode, though, was ...

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill ...

The man who wrote arguably the most famous of all World War One poems was born in Lancaster. A verse of Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen" is read out at Remembrance services every year. He was born ...

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. To this day there is a plaque to commemorate the spot where in September 1914 Laurence Binyon wrote “For ...

Sparks fly in this description of one of the gardening rites of autumn, though Laurence Binyon offers a rather dark view of purging and renewal in the human scheme of things. Perhaps there is a ...

A sensual description of the natural beauties of the eponymous group of Japanese islands, this is also a vision of earthly paradise Matsushima O paradise of waters and of isles that gleam, Dark pines ...