#English #WarWriters
THE Bishop tells us: ‘When the b… ‘They will not be the same; for th… ‘In a just cause: they lead the la… ‘On Anti—Christ; their comrades’… ‘New right to breed an honourable…
Along the wind—swept platform, pin… The travellers stand in pools of w… Offering themselves to morn’s long… The train’s due; porters trundle l… The train steams in, volleying res…
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…
So Davies wrote: ‘ This leaves me… Then scrawled his name: ‘ Your lo… With crosses for a hug. He’d had… Of rum and tea; and, though the ba… For once his blood ram warm; he ha…
Who’s this—alone with stone and sk… It’s only my old dog and I— It’s only him; it’s only me; Alone with stone and grass and tre… What share we most—we two together…
Derision from the dead Mocks armamental madness. Redeem (each Ruler said) Mankind. Men died to do it. And some with glorying gladness
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…
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…
I’ve had a good bump round; my lit… Refused the brook first time, Then jumped it prime; And ran out at the double, But of course
I watched old squatting Chimpanze… His painful patterns in the dirt:… Red—haired Ourang—utang, whimsica… Chewing a sportsman’s meditative s… I’d met them years ago, and half—f…
Come down from heaven to meet me w… Chokes, and through drumming shaft… I stumble toward escape, to find t… Opening on morn where I may breat… Clear cock—crow airs across some v…
Because we are going from our wont… To be task—ridden by one shatterin… And terror hides in all our laughi… That had no will to die, no thirst… Hear our last word. In Hell we se…
All night the flares go up; the D… And beats upon the dark with furio… And, stung to rage by his own dart… Reaches with grappling coils from… He lusts to break the loveliness o…
You like my bird—sung gardens: win… Calm landscapes for emotion; star—… And Youth against the sun—rise ..… ‘But such a haunting music in the… ‘Do it once more; it helps us to f…
If I were fierce, and bald, and s… I’d live with scarlet Majors at t… And speed glum heroes up the line… You’d see me with my puffy petulan… Guzzling and gulping in the best h…