#English #WarWriters
Dark clouds are smouldering into r… While down the craters morning bur… The dying soldier shifts his head To watch the glory that returns; He lifts his fingers toward the sk…
I saw the Prince of Darkness, wit… Standing bare-headed by the Cenot… Unostentatious and respectful, the… He stood, and offered up the follo… ‘Make them forget, O Lord, what t…
Does it matter?—losing your legs? For people will always be kind, And you need not show that you min… When others come in after hunting To gobble their muffins and eggs.
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
When Wisdom tells me that the wor… Lost on the shoreless blue of God… I smile, and think, ‘For every ma… The world’s my ship, and I’m alon… And when he tells me that the worl…
In gold and grey, with fleering lo… I watch them come; by two, by thre… Advancing slow, with loutings they… Their woven measure, widening from… While music—men behind are straddl…
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…
This is To—day, a child in white… Running to meet me out of Night w… The ghost of Yester—eve; this is… The mother of To—morrow. And thes… That chase the sunshine over gleam…
He stood alone in some queer sunle… Where Armageddon ends. Perhaps he… For days he might have lived; but… Gazed forth untroubled: and sudden… Round him the hulking Germans tha…
Now light the candles; one; two; t… What silly beggars they are to blu… And scorch their wings with glory,… No, no, not that,—it’s bad to thin… When thoughts you’ve gagged all da…
Your dextrous wit will haunt us lo… Wounding our grief with yesterday. Your laughter is a broken song; And death has found you, kind and… We may forget those transient thin…
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…
Leave not your bough, my slender s… But pipe me now your roundelay com… Come, gentle breeze, and tarrying… Whisper my trees what you have see… Stand, golden cloud, until my song…
Frail Travellers, deftly flickeri… O living flowers against the heedl… Of summer days, what sends them da… This fiery—blossom’d revel of the… Theirs are the musing silences bet…
His headstrong thoughts that once… Leapt sure from eye to brain and b… Weaving unconscious tapestries of… Are now thrust inward, dungeoned f… And he who has watched his world a…