IN Flanders fields the cannon boom And fitful flashes light the gloom, While up above, like eagles, fly The fierce destroyers of the sky; With stains the earth wherein you lie Is redder than the poppy bloom, In Flanders fields. Sleep on, ye brave. The shrieking shell, The quaking trench, the startled yell, The fury of the battle hell Shall wake you not, for all is well. Sleep peacefully for all is well. Your flaming torch aloft we bear, With burning heart on oath we swear To keep the faith, to fight it through, To crush the foe or sleep with you In Flanders fields. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MODEST WIT by SELLECK OSBORNE A SUMMER NIGHT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL THE VOLCANIC ISLAND by CLIFFORD BAX I SHALL BE SATISFIED by MARTIN BEHEMB EDGE OF THE DAY by BURL BREDON THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 2 by JOHN BYROM |