Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RETURN, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX First Line: Golden through the golden morning Last Line: From the soul's despair. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War | ||||||||
GOLDEN through the golden morning, Who is this that comes With the pride of banners lifted, With the roll of drums? With the self-same triumph shining In the ardent glance, That divine, bright fate defiance That you bore to France. You! But o'er your grave in Flanders Blow the winter gales; Still for sorrow of your going All life's laughter fails. Borne on flutes of dawn the answer: "O'er the foam's white track, God's work done, so to our homeland Comes her hosting back. "Come the dead men with the live men From the marshes far, From the mounds in no man's valley, Lit by cross nor star. "Come to blend with hers the essence Of their strength and pride, All the radiance of the dreaming For whose truth they died." So the dead men with the live men Pass, an hosting fair, And the stone is rolled forever From the soul's despair. | 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 CUCHULAIN'S WOOING by ELEANOR ROGERS COX |
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