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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ARCTIC EPITAPH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: No grave more nobly graced
Last Line: And striving -- died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): World War I; First World War
First Line: No grave more nobly graced
Last Line: And striving -- died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): World War I; First World War
NO grave more nobly graced,
No whiter pall than that which wraps the heads
Of those who sleep where the lone land outspreads
Its ice-bound waste.
These, Mother, were thy sons,
Brood of thy brood, whose seed by sea and land
Still man to-day, and in days gone have manned
Our English guns.
No mortal foe defied.
What Nature in her silent holds of snow
Hides from all outer ken, they strove to know,
And striving -- died.
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