Isaac Rosenberg (25 November 1890 – 1 April 1918) was an English poet of the First World War. His Poems from the Trenches are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War.
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“Earth has waited for them,
All the time of their growth
Fretting for their decay:
Now she has them at last!”
—Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)
“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)
“The grass and coloured clay
More motion have than they,
Joined to the great sunk silences.”
—Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)