#English #WarWriters
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…
When I have heard small talk abou… I climb to bed; light my two candl… Consider what was said; and put as… What Such—a—one remarked and Some… They have spoken lightly of my dea…
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…
You love us when we’re heroes, hom… Or wounded in a mentionable place. You worship decorations; you belie… That chivalry redeems the war’s di… You make us shells. You listen wi…
From you, Beethoven, Bach, Mozar… The substance of my dreams took fi… You built cathedrals in my heart, And lit my pinnacled desire. You were the ardour and the bright
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…
My hopes, my messengers I sent Across the ten years continent Of Time. In dream I saw them go— And thought, 'When they come back… To what far place I lead my frien…
Hullo! here’s my platoon, the lot… ‘The war’ll be over soon.’ ‘What ’opes?’ ‘No bloody fear!’ Then, ‘Number Seven, ’shun! All…
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…
Moonlight and dew—drenched blossom… Of summer gardens; these can bring… Those dreams that in the starlit s… Sweet songs are full of odours. While I went
In barns we crouch, and under stac… Harking the storm that rides a hur… Up the arched sky, and speeds quic… With growling thunder loosed in fo… That echoes crashing thro’ the slu…
Give me your hand, my brother, sea… Look in these eyes lest I should… For we have made an end of all thi… We are returning by the road we ca… Your lot is with the ghosts of sol…
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…
Return to greet me, colours that w… Not in the woeful crimson of men s… But shining as a garden; come with… Banners of dawn and sundown after… I want to fill my gaze with blue a…
Ring your sweet bells; but let the… To the green—vista’d gladness of t… That changed us into soldiers; swi… To a joyful chime; but let it be t… What means this metal in windy bel…