Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 1, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poet's Biography First Line: There is no wrath in the stars Last Line: Even in plug street wood! Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
There is no wrath in the stars, They do not rage in the sky; I look from the evil wood And find myself wondering why. Why do they not scream out And grapple star against star, Seeking for blood in the wood As all things round me are? They do not glare like the sky Or flash like the deeps of the wood; But they shine softly on In their sacred solitude. To their high, happy haunts Silence from us has flown, She whom we loved of old And know it now she is gone. When will she come again, Though for one second only? She whom we loved is gone And the whole world is lonely. And the elder giants come Sometimes, tramping from far Through the weird and flickering light Made by an earthly star. And the giant with his club, And the dwarf with rage in his breath, And the elder giants from far, They are all the children of Death. They are all abroad to-night And are breaking the hills with their brood, -- And the birds are all asleep Even in Plug Street Wood! | 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 SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 2 by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 3 by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT A.E. (GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL) by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT |
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