#English #WarWriters
Tossed on the glittering air they… Whose voices make the emptiness of… A windy palace. Quavering from th… Of dawn, and bold with song at edg… They clutch their leafy pinnacles…
When I was young my heart and hea… And I was gay and feckless as a c… Out in the fields, with morning in… Wind on the grass, wings in the or… O thrilling sweet, my joy, when li…
The boys came back. Bands played… And Yellow—Pressmen thronged the… To cheer the soldiers who’d refrai… And hear the music of returning fe… ‘Of all the thrills and ardours W…
I love all things that pass: their… Music that fades on transient sile… Winds, birds, and glittering leave… They fling delight across the worl… To rhythmic—flashing limbs that ro…
Well, how are things in Heaven? I… Because I’d like to know that you… Tell me, have you found everlastin… Or been sucked in by everlasting n… For when I shut my eyes your face…
Splashing along the boggy woods al… And over brambled hedge and holdin… I shall not think of him: But when the watery fields grow br… And hounds have lost their fox, an…
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
The House is crammed: tier beyond… And cackle at the Show, while pra… Of harlots shrill the chorus, drun… ‘We’re sure the Kaiser loves our… I’d like to see a Tank come down…
Across the land a faint blue veil… Seems hung; the woods wear yet arr… Till frost shall make them flame;… The drooping cherry orchards of O… Like mournful pennons hang their s…
I never asked you to be perfect—di… Though often I’ve called you swee… Of mastering love. I never prayed… Might stand, unsoiled, angelic and… Pointing the way toward Sainthood…
When roaring gloom surged inward a… Groping for friendly hands, and cl… Like racing smoke, swift from your… phantoms of thought and memory thi… Yet, though my dreams that throng…
The rank stench of those bodies ha… And I remember things I’d best fo… For now we’ve marched to a green,… Twelve miles from battering guns:… Brown lines of tents are hives for…
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…
When in your sober mood my body ha… In sight and sound of things belov… And the green turf has hidden the… No more a close companion with tho… Then, if some bird should pipe, or…
The barrack—square, washed clean w… Shines wet and wintry—grey and col… Young Fusiliers, strong—legged an… March and wheel and march again. The sun looks over the barrack gat…