Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAYER IN THE TRENCHES, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON First Line: Lord god of hosts, be with us here! Last Line: Cometh the dawn! Subject(s): Prayer; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
What the Regimental Chaplain Prayed Lord God of Hosts, be with us here! Be with our troops that have no peer! Sheathe them and shield them with Thy might, Teach them to scorn comfort, delight, To die for Freedom we revere, And homes inestimably dear! Gird them with iron! ... Be ever near, Through stern and soul-redeeming night, Lord God of Hosts! When Christ to mortals did appear He brought nor meek compliance nor fear, He brought a sword,bade men to fight; We fight beside Him now and here Our holy Captainwithout fear For Peace and Liberty and Right, Lord God of Hosts! DE PROFUNDIS What the Regimental Chaplain Should Have Prayed Cometh the dawn: ye men who know Infinite anguish, infinite woe, Blinded and scourged in a ghastly doom, Yearning and staggering through the gloom Of filthy war,O Youth laid low, Dreaming of clean things long ago, Of Christmas eves and drifted snow, Cursing the savage cannon-boom, Cometh the dawn! All things end sometime here below, Even hate and war: it must be so. ... The rotting flesh, the riven gloom, Will vanish with the dreaded foe, And peace will come and May winds blow, And thrushes sing where lilacs bloom: Cometh the dawn! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN CHRISTMAS, 1917 by BRENT DOW ALLINSON HARVARD DECLARES WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON THE HERO OF VIMY; AN INCIDENT OF THE GREAT WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON |
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