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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RED CROSS NURSE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poet's Biography
First Line: The battle-smoke still fouled the day
Last Line: A crimson cross is on her breast!
Subject(s): Nurses; World War I - Casualties
First Line: The battle-smoke still fouled the day
Last Line: A crimson cross is on her breast!
Subject(s): Nurses; World War I - Casualties
THE battle-smoke still fouled the day,
With bright disaster flaming through;
Unchecked, absorbed, she held her way—
The whispering death still past her flew.
A cross of red was on her sleeve;
And here she stayed, the wound to bind,
And there, the fighting soul relieve,
That strove its Unknown Peace to find.
A cross of red ... yet one has dreamed
Of her he loved and left in tears;
But unto dying sight she seemed
A visitant from other spheres.
The whispering death—it nearer drew,
It holds her heart in strict arrest ...
And where was one, are crosses two—
A crimson cross is on her breast!
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