Poem

Lost Youth

Title Lost Youth
Author Roger Casement

Instances of Publication

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Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
Some Poems of Roger Casement 1918 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #3239
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology Some Poems of Roger Casement
Date of Publication 1918
Page Number(s) 9
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
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Details
Human Rights Issues
Languages
Genre Short Lyric
Medium Print Collection
Paratext Text Written on receiving a letter from a friend, T. H., who had spent the best years of his life as a missionary in Central Africa, in which he speaks of "the glorious superfluity of strength and spirits one remembers as a lad, but alas! only remembers."
Notes The poem is written in response to a letter from one of Casement's friends who had spent his youth as a missionary in Central Africa. The lines refer to the glories of youth and humanity.
Is bunachar beo é seo. Entries continue to be updated.