#English #WarWriters
In fifty years, when peace outshin… Remembrance of the battle lines, Adventurous lads will sigh and cas… Proud looks upon the plundered pas… On summer morn or winter’s night,
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
And still they come and go: and th… That from the gloom I watch an en… Where wild or listless faces flick… With glad or grievous hearts I’ll… Because Time spins so fast, and t…
Four days the earth was rent and t… By bursting steel, The houses fell about us; Three nights we dared not sleep, Sweating, and listening for the im…
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…
Hullo! here’s my platoon, the lot… ‘The war’ll be over soon.’ ‘What ’opes?’ ‘No bloody fear!’ Then, ‘Number Seven, ’shun! All…
We’d gained our first objective ho… While dawn broke like a face with… Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, blin… Things seemed all right at first.… With bombers posted, Lewis guns w…
I’d heard fool—heroes brag of wher… With stories of the glories that t… But you, good simple soldier, seas… In woods and posts and crater—line… Who dodge remembered ‘crumps’ with…
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…
'Jack fell as he’d have wished,' t… And folded up the letter that she’… ‘The Colonel writes so nicely.’ S… In the tired voice that quavered t… She half looked up. ‘We mothers a…
When life was a cobweb of stars fo… In the whisper of leaves or a bird… On dawn—lit hills and horizons gir… I sought for the triumph that trou… With death in the terrible flicker…
Sleep; and my song shall build abo… A paradise of dimness. You shall… The folding of tired wings; and pe… Throned in your silence: and one h… Summer, and midnight, and immensit…
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…
Dusk in the rain—soaked garden, And dark the house within. A door creaked: someone was early To watch the dawn begin. But he stole away like a thief
He woke; the clank and racket of t… Kept time with angry throbbings in… Then for a while he lapsed and dro… At last he lifted his bewildered e… And blinked, and rolled them sidel…