Arms and the Boy The title alludes to the opening words of Virgil's Latin epic poem the "Aeneid": "Arma virumque cano" ("Of arms and the man I sing"). The poem is written in heroic couplets, in which successive pairs of lines have related ending sounds. In this instance, the final words do not rhyme; for example, "blade" and "blood" in the quotation. This is a scheme called half rhyme. Text of the Poem at Poetry Foundation Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I;
London Boy Singers Music for HMV, released in 1965. It also recorded an EP of songs with the London Jazz Quartet which featured on Juke Box Jury. Britten wrote "12 Apostles: Choral Octavo" and "The Bitter Withy" for the choir and his arrangement of "King Herod and the Cock" was dedicated to it. In 1966, Britten severed his relationship with the group. Jonathan Steele remained its director into the 1970s. The choir no longer exists. London Boy Singers The London Boy Singers was an English boys' choir which formed in 1961. It initially drew its members from the Finchley Children's Music Group. The