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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FESTUBERT: THE OLD GERMAN LINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sparse mists of moonlight hurt our eyes
Last Line: The gray rags fluttered on the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): World War I; First World War
First Line: Sparse mists of moonlight hurt our eyes
Last Line: The gray rags fluttered on the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): World War I; First World War
SPARSE mists of moonlight hurt our eyes
With gouged and scourged uncertainties
Of soul and soil in agonies.
One derelict grim skeleton
That drench and dry had battened on
Still seemed to wish us malison;
Still zipped across the gouts of lead
Or cracked like whipcracks overhead;
The gray rags fluttered on the dead.
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