Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE QUIET, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON


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First Line: I could not understand the sudden quiet
Last Line: Among the other dead.


I could not understand the sudden quiet --
The sudden darkness -- in the crash of fight,
The din and glare of day quenched in a twinkling
In utter starless night.

I lay an age and idly gazed at nothing,
Half-puzzled that I could not lift my head;
And then I knew somehow that I was lying
Among the other dead.





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