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  • According to this gardening site with a sideline in literary criticism: To interpret this line it is worth remembering that Flecker, bisexual and a friend of T E Lawrence, was also the author of Hassan.

    April 27th, 2007 amuchmoreexotic 2007

  • Their new number sets the epilogue of a poem by James Elroy Flecker to music - although certain MFMO members thought that Marty had written the lyrics himself.

    April 27th, 2007 amuchmoreexotic 2007

  • And in a romantic spirit, here is a poem from my collection (which I have been compiling since I was 15) by James Elroy Flecker (1884 - 1915) - this is apparently his most famous poem and I love it and it has been known to make me cry on occasion when reading it aloud ...

    March 22nd, 2006 dame_habonde 2006

  • Alternating light and dark, Flecker tells the story of the rise of Hassan, a Bagdad carpet-seller, to the right-hand of the Caliph, and then his self-betrayal.

    I am the Eye in the (Martian) Sky lproven 2005

  • Steampunk meets the Boy's Own Story, illuminated by Flecker and the Pre-Raphaelites?

    The Wednesday Morning "A Bad Night's Sleep" Review: "The Peshawar Lancers" sbisson 2003

  • Flecker, The Bridge of Fire Too angry to wait for the creaky elevator, I went clattering down the dusty stairs, so fast that I outpaced Dave.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • Flecker groaned: "We're gone, Colonel -- one thousand we put up and the one we hedged with."

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • Carpenter, it's a three-cornered race for three-thousand dollars -- each of us, Col. Troup, Flecker and me, have put up a thousand -- three heats out of five -- the winner takes the stake.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • They all turned again and came down, the numbers on the drivers 'arms showing 1, 2, 3, 4 -- Travis, Troup, Flecker, and the old Bishop, respectively.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • Flecker, too, was there -- chagrined, maddened -- he too had joined his forces with the old Bishop.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

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