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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE, by WILHELM KLEMM Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly the stones begin to rouse themselves and to talk
Last Line: For days, for weeks.
Subject(s): Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War
First Line: Slowly the stones begin to rouse themselves and to talk
Last Line: For days, for weeks.
Subject(s): Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War
Slowly the stones begin to rouse themselves and to talk.
The grasses stiffen to green metal. Woods,
Thick, crouching ambush, devour distant columns.
The sky, that chalk-white secret, threatens to burst.
Two colossal hours unroll into minutes.
The empty horizon swells.
My heart is as big as Germany and France together,
Pierced by all the shots of the world.
The battery heaves its leonine voice
Six times into the distance. Grenades are howling.
Silence. Far off, smokes the fire of the infantry,
For days, for weeks.
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