#English #WarWriters
AT dawn the ridge emerges massed… In the wild purple of the glow’rin… Smouldering through spouts of drif… The menacing scarred slope; and, o… Tanks creep and topple forward to…
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 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…
You told me, in your drunken—boast… How once you butchered prisoners.… I’m sure you felt no pity while th… Patient and cowed and scared, as p… How did you do them in? Come, don…
Adam, a brown old vulture in the r… Shivered below his wind—whipped ol… Huddling sharp chin on scarred and… He moaned and mumbled to his darke… ‘He was the grandest of them all w…
In the grey summer garden I shall… With day—break and the morning hil… There will be rain—wet roses; stir… And down the wood a thrush that wa… Not from the past you’ll come, but…
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…
Propped on a stick he viewed the… Squat orchard trees and oasts with… A homely, tangled hedge, a corn—st… And sound of barking dogs and farm… And he’d come home again to find i…
They threw me from the gates: my m… Was dank with dungeon wetness; my… O’erlaid with marish agues: everyw… Tortured by leaping pangs of frost… So hideous was I that even Lazaru…
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…
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…
Soldiers are citizens of death’s g… Drawing no dividend from time’s to… In the great hour of destiny they… Each with his feuds, and jealousie… Soldiers are sworn to action; they…
Three hours ago he blundered up th… Sliding and poising, groping with… Sometimes he tripped and lurched a… With hands that pawed the sodden b… He couldn’t see the man who walked…
Then a wind blew; And he who had forgot he moved Lonely amid the green and silver m… Suddenly grew Aware of clouds and trees
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter’s night The clear—eyed angels may alight. And if there should be tempests in