#English #WarWriters
I’ve listened: and all the sounds… Were music,—wind, and stream, and… With youth who sang from hill to h… I’ve listened: my heart is hungry… I’ve looked: the morning world was…
I Stood with the Dead, so forsake… When dawn was grey I stood with t… And my slow heart said, ‘You must… ’Soldier, soldier, morning is red’… On the shapes of the slain in thei…
When I’m among a blaze of lights, With tawdry music and cigars And women dawdling through delight… And officers in cocktail bars, Sometimes I think of garden night…
Have you forgotten yet?... For the world’s events have rumble… Like traffic checked while at the… And the haunted gap in your mind h… Like clouds in the lit heaven of l…
I was near the King that day. I s… And briskly scan the G.H.Q. disp… Thick—voiced, he read it out. (Hi… ‘This officer advanced with the fi… ‘And when our first objective had…
GOD with a Roll of Honour in Hi… Sits welcoming the heroes who have… While sorrowless angels ranked on… Stand easy in Elysium’s meadow—la… Then you come shyly through the ga…
Trudging by Corbie Ridge one wint… (Unless old hearsay memories trick… Along the pallid edge of the quiet… He watched a nosing lorry grinding… And straggling files of men; when…
Observe these blue solemnities of… Offering for the academes of after… A mythologic welkin freaked with w… Listen: one tiny tinkling rivulet Accentuates the super-sultry still…
Young Croesus went to pay his cal… On Colonel Sawbones, Caxton Hall… And, though his wound was healed a… He hoped he’d get his leave extend… The waiting—room was dark and bare…
When old Noah stared across the f… Sky and water melted into one Looking—glass of shifting tides an… Mountain—tops were few: the ship w… All the morn old Noah marvelled g…
Groping along the tunnel, step by… He winked his prying torch with pa… From side to side, and sniffed the… Tins, boxes, bottles, shapes too v… A mirror smashed, the mattress fro…
To these I turn, in these I trust… Brother Lead and Sister Steel. To his blind power I make appeal; I guard her beauty clean from rust… He spins and burns and loves the a…
He drowsed and was aware of silenc… Round him, unshaken as the steadfa… Aqueous like floating rays of ambe… Soaring and quivering in the wings… Silence and safety; and his mortal…
Dim, gradual thinning of the shape… Shudders to drizzling daybreak tha… Disconsolate men who stamp their s… And turn dulled, sunken faces to t… Haggard and hopeless. They, who h…
Hullo! here’s my platoon, the lot… ‘The war’ll be over soon.’ ‘What ’opes?’ ‘No bloody fear!’ Then, ‘Number Seven, ’shun! All…