#English #WarWriters
Through darkness curves a spume of… That flood the field with shallow,… The huddled sentry stares On gloom at war with white, And white receding slow, submerged…
‘FALL in! Now get a move on.’ (… We splash away along the stragglin… Out to the flat rich country, gree… And sunset flares across wet crops… Blazing with splendour—patches. (…
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…
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…
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…
He staggered in from night and fro… And lampless streets: he’d guzzled… And drunk till he was dazed. And… To hear—he couldn’t call to mind t… But he’d been given a ticket for t…
Fires in the dark you build; tall… In the huge midnight forest of the… Your soul is full of cities with d… And blind—faced, earth—bound gods… Whose priests and kings and lust—b…
Shaken from sleep, and numbed and… Out in the trench with three hours… I blunder through the splashing mi… Hear the gruff muttering voices of… Crouching in cabins candle—chinked…
You think I cannot understand. Ah… I have been wrung with anger and c… I wonder if you’d loathe my pity,… But you shall know. I’ve carried… This secret burden. Has not silen…
Behold these jewelled, merchant A… Foregathered in some chancellery o… Calm, provident, discreet, they st… And move their faces slowly in the… And barter monstrous wealth with s…
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome… And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum…
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…
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
I heard the farm cocks crowing, lo… When hooded night was going and on… I heard shrill notes begin down th… When cloudy shoals were chinked an… White—misted was the weald; the la…