Song Against Children

Vigils

by Aline KILMER (1888 - 1941)

This is a volume of poetry by American poet Aline Murray Kilmer, widow of the poet Joyce Kilmer. These poems have been published several years after Joyce Kilmer's death in 1918 while he was deployed in France, and their daughter Rose's death in 1917. Many of the poems in this collection thus also center around a motive of grief and loss, and set these emotions into poetry of heartbreaking beauty. - Summary by Carolin

Listen next episodes of Vigils:
Bound , Charmian's Song , Daimon , For All Ladies of Shalott , Knowledge , Light Lover , One Shall Be Taken and the Other Left , Perversity , Shards , The Gift , The Harp , 'The Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness' , The Stirrup Cup , To a Child Shut in a Bedroom , To an Intruder , To Sappho, About her Apple , Tour de Force , Tribute , Unlearning , Victory , Vigils , Violin Song , Words to an Irish Air