Binyon

British  

/ ˈbɪnjən /

noun

1. ( Robert ) Laurence . 1869–1943, British poet and art historian, best known for his elegiac war poems "For the Fallen" (1914) and "The Burning of the Leaves" (1944)

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Example Sentences

"Respect. Honor. Remember… At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them. — For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon," the "Shooter" actor wrote.

From Fox News

Its title comes from the 1914 poem “For the Fallen” by Lawrence Binyon.

From Fox News

Binyon, too old for service but who would later make it to the front in 1916 as a medic, was writing with the pang of guilt that many of his countrymen felt when the terrible cost of the war was first becoming clear.

From Fox News

“They Shall Not Grow Old,” which takes its name from the Laurence Binyon poem “For the Fallen,” has already played in the U.K., where it earned Jackson the best reviews of his career.

From Washington Times

“They Shall Not Grow Old”—the title comes from the patriotic poem by Laurence Binyon, who served in the Red Cross on the Western Front—draws upon footage shot for a silent film, “The Battle of the Somme,”made in 1916, which inter-spliced real scenes of soldiers readying themselves for battle, or lying dead in its aftermath, with scenes of troops going “over the top” of their trenches in training sessions in advance of the conflict.

From The New Yorker