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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORGAN SONGS: HOME FROM THE WARS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A tattered soldier, gone the glow and gloss
Last Line: I only faced the foe, and did not flee.
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery
First Line: A tattered soldier, gone the glow and gloss
Last Line: I only faced the foe, and did not flee.
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery
A TATTERED soldier, gone the glow and gloss,
With wounds half healed, and sorely trembling knee,
Homeward I come, to claim no victory-cross:
I only faced the foe, and did not flee.
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