#English #WarWriters
Who will remember, passing through… the unheroic dead who fed the guns… Who shall absolve the foulness of… Those doomed, conscripted, unvicto… Crudely renewed, the Salient hold…
No doubt they’ll soon get well; th… Have caused their stammering, disc… Of course they’re ‘longing to go o… These boys with old, scared faces,… They’ll soon forget their haunted…
O beauty doomed and perfect for an… Leaping along the verge of death a… You show me dauntless Youth that… Four long years past, discovering… You die but in our dreams, who wat…
I heard the farm cocks crowing, lo… When hooded night was going and on… I heard shrill notes begin down th… When cloudy shoals were chinked an… White—misted was the weald; the la…
Four days the earth was rent and t… By bursting steel, The houses fell about us; Three nights we dared not sleep, Sweating, and listening for the im…
Everyone suddenly burst out singin… And I was filled with such deligh… As prisoned birds must find in fre… Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on…
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome… And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum…
Sleep; and my song shall build abo… A paradise of dimness. You shall… The folding of tired wings; and pe… Throned in your silence: and one h… Summer, and midnight, and immensit…
When I’m asleep, dreaming and lul… They come, the homeless ones, the… While the dim charging breakers of… Bellow and drone and rumble overhe… Out of the gloom they gather about…
In me, past, present, future meet To hold long chiding conference. My lusts usurp the present tense And strangle Reason in his seat. My loves leap through the future’s…
His wet white face and miserable e… Brought nurses to him more than gr… But hoarse and low and rapid rose… His troubled voice: he did the bus… The ward grew dark; but he was sti…
When you are standing at your hero… Or near some homeless village wher… Remember, through your heart’s rek… The German soldiers who were loya… Men fought like brutes; and hideou…
Evening was in the wood, louring w… A time of drought had sucked the w… And baked the channels; birds had… Thirst was a dream of fountains in… Or willow—music blown across the w…
When meadows are grey with the mor… In the dusk of the woods it is nig… The oak and the birch and the pine War with the glimmer of light. Dryads brown as the leaf
October’s bellowing anger breaks a… The bronzed battalions of the stri… In whose lament I hear a voice th… For battle’s fruitless harvest, an… Of outraged men. Their lives are…