William Dunbar's Lament for the Makers. That poem's famous refrain, "timor mortis conturbat me" ("fear of death confounds me"), turns Dunbar's grief for the lost poets with poignant candour towards himself. [Francis] Ledwidge, in the poem to his mother quoted earlier, had described himself as "this poor, bird-hearted singer of a day". It is tempting to imagine that the elegy was written in some kind of foreknowledge of the untimely silencing of his own sweet blackbird song. Lament for the Poets: 1916
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Lament for the Poets: 1916
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