Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928, by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY First Line: Ten years; but what are years to the dead Last Line: But glory and bemedaled scars! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
Ten years; but what are years to the dead Who lie beneath conquested soil, At rest, at peace, from bloody toil? Ten years since these have followed and led The charge of steel against a foe Who met and gave them blow for blow. Ten years have thousands slept in a bed Of priceless earth that once was France, But now a world's inheritance. Ten years; but what are years to these dead? For them no love, no sun, no stars; But glory and bemedaled scars! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL NIGHT, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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