"Curfew shall not ring tonight" (Rose Hartwick Thorpe, 1867)

[brooklynite]

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[First Speaker]

1. Hah! That poem is one of my favorite pieces of kitsch...

...especially the part where none other than Oliver Cromwell shows up, "eyes filled with a misty light". Nice to see it apropos of today's times...

[Withywindle]

6. Kitschy as fuck but let's remember

Rose Hardwicke Thorpe was only 16 when she wrote it. And it's still remembered.

https://www.edhelper.com/poetry/Curfew_Must_Not_Ring_Tonight_by_Rose_Hartwick_Tho.htm

[BigmanPigman]

2. I remember that poem from the film Desk Set

with Katherine Hepburn. She read it very dramatically.

[whistler162]

3. Yeah.... can't locate a clip of it.

Of all the millions of nee billions of idiotic things on the interweb a clip of Hepburn reciting the poem isn't one of them.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I know, I looked too.

All I found was a small bit of the dialogue from that scene. I saw a clip of the "math quiz during lunch" so I felt a little better.

[brooklynite]

7. Here ya go...

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[Tanuki]

4. My introduction was via James Thurber, in The Thurber Carnival anthology

His illustrated version originally appeared here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/06/17/famous-poems-illustrated-vi-curfew-must-not-ring-tonight/amp