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Herbert Ashley Asquith

I lived from 1881-1947. I was from England, and am in the English category.

Herbert Asquith was born in 1881, he was the second son of the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister (1908-1916), and often times people would get them confused with one another. Asquith was a poet, novelist and lawyer. He married his wife, Cynthia, in 1910, and she too was a writer.

Asquith served in France during World War I. He died in 1947.

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  • The Volunteer
    Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent
    Toiling at ledgers in a city grey,
    17 lines
  • The Fallen Subaltern
    The starshells float above, the bayonets glisten;
    We bear our fallen friend without a sound;
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • War's Cataract
    In this red havoc of the patient earth,
    Though higher yet the tide of battle rise,
    14 lines
  • To A Baby Found Paddling Near The Lines
    Hail! O Baby of the May
    In the bubbling river-bed,
    48 lines
  • A Ship Sails up to Bideford
    A ship sails up to Bideford;
    Upon a western breeze,
    27 lines
  • Fortune of War
    THE far guns boom: shell-struck the church is rolled
    Skyward athunder, dust of rose and gold:
    3 lines
  • Soldiers at Peace
    Mourn not for these, the children of the spring :
    On Flemish plains and far Aegean sand,
    14 lines
  • The Silver Birch
    O SILVER one, O silver one,
        Above the valley of the Bane:
    18 lines
  • Ares, God of War
    UNDER the stars the armies lie asleep:
    Between the lines a quiet river flows
    69 lines
  • After the Salvo
    UP and down, up and down
    They go, the gray rat, and the brown.
    31 lines
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