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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COWARDS OF THE AIR, by ARDEN MURDOCK ROCKWOOD Poet's Biography First Line: Have we no laws of chivalry today? Last Line: And show them for the cowards that they are! | |||
Have we no laws of chivalry today? Do high-powered weapons give a hoodlum rule? Has justice lost its power to end the fray? Must we give up our kingdom to a fool? The small boy scorns the bully who'll assail A smaller and a weaker one than he. The women and the children in a gale Are first to be delivered from the sea. But to the bullies of the air it's sport To see their bombs destroy a braver foe, Because his arms are of a cruder sort. They laugh at women and childen dead below. Give them the ancient weapons they debar, And show them for the cowards that they are! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1956, A FAIRY TALE by JAMES GALVIN WERENA MY HEART'S LICHT I WAD DEE by GRISELL BAILLIE THE MARTYRS OF THE MAINE by RUPERT HUGHES THE TWINS by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH STREET CORNER COLLEGE by KENNETH PATCHEN MARSYAS by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS |
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