A four-line poem set during this decade discusses a group of men who should be with their sweethearts gathering the "᥸owers le᥸ thick at nightfall in the wood.
A four-line poem set during this decade discusses a group of men who should be with their sweethearts gathering the "᥸owers le᥸ thick at nightfall in the wood." A poem set in this decade that describes "dark-clothed children at play" who are named "a᥸er kings and queens" says that "moustached archaic faces" were "grinning as if it were all an August Bank Holiday lark" and describes "long uneven lines" of people who will never have "such innocence again." A poem about an event in this decade states that "too long a sacri᥸ce can make a stone of the heart" and remembers the deaths of MacDonagh, MacBride, Connolly, and Pearse. The refrain "a terrible beauty is born" is from a poem set in, for 10 points, what decade, the setting of a William Butler Yeats poem about the Easter Rising?
A four-line poem set during this decade discusses a group of men who should be with their sweethearts gathering the "᥸owers le᥸ thick at nightfall in the wood.
1910s [accept MCMXs or nineteen-teens; prompt on "tens" or "teens"]