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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SOLDIERS' WRITINGS Matches Found: 578 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1914: 1. PEACE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now god be thanked who has matched us with his hour Last Line: And the worst friend and enemy is but death. Variant Title(s): Peace Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 1914: 2. SAFETY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear! Of all happy in the hour, most blest Last Line: And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War 1914: 3. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead! Last Line: And we have come into our heritage. Variant Title(s): Gifts Of The Dead Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Liberty 1914: 4. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hearts were woven of human joys and cares Last Line: A width, a shining peace, under the night. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War A CHANNEL PASSAGE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick Last Line: To choose 'twixt love and nausea, heart and belly. Subject(s): English Channel; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Ocean A CHILD'S PRAYER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For morn, my dome of blue Last Line: And guard my innocence for evermore. Subject(s): Prayer; Soldiers' Writings A CONFESSION OF FAITH, by JAMES SPRENT Poem Text First Line: Who would remember me were I to die Last Line: If I am worth it, keep my memory. Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A FINGER AND A HUGE, THICK THUMB (A BALLAD OF THE TRENCHES), by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly twelve o'clock by the sergeant's watch Last Line: A finger and a huge, thick thumb. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was just a prisoner Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War A KISS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: She kissed me when she said goodbye Last Line: Good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Parting; First World War A LETTER FROM THE TRENCHES, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not brought my odyssey Last Line: But you'll forgive—you'll understand. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A LETTER HOME (TO ROBERT GRAVES), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I'm sitting in the gloom Last Line: While we know such dreams are true! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A MEMORY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept Last Line: Waikiki, october 1913 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings A MESSAGE TO AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the grit and the guts, I know Last Line: Oh, look over here and learn from france! Subject(s): France; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Soldiers' Writings; Tolerance; United States; World War I; America; First World War A MYSTIC AS SOLDIER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived my days apart Last Line: When will you sound again? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A PETITION, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Text First Line: All that a man might ask, thou hast given me, england Last Line: England, for thee to die. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War A POPLAR AND THE MOON, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a poplar, tall and straight Last Line: The stars and lilies I could see. Subject(s): Nature; Soldiers' Writings A SUBALTERN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze Last Line: Wondering 'why he always talked such tripe'. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A TERRE (BEING THE PHILOSOPHY OF MANY SOLDIERS), by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sit on the bed. I'm blind, and three parts shell Last Line: To do without what blood remained these wounds. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A WANDERER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When watkin shifts the burden of his cares Last Line: Up the green world he wanders like a king. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings A WHISPERED TALE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd heard fool heroes brag of where they'd been Last Line: Sour jokes for all those horrors left behind. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A WORKING PARTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours ago he blundered up the trench Last Line: His startled life with lead, and all went out. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ABSOLUTION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes Last Line: What need we more, my comrades and my brothers? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AFTER ACTION (A SOUL REMEMBERS), by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in my moment of earth Last Line: In rearing a heavenly flower. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AFTER DUNKIRK, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been silent a lifetime Last Line: Of luckier babies playing in the cot Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); War ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors Last Line: On death and beauty -- till a bullet stopped his song Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); War ALONE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've listened: and all the sounds I heard Last Line: I've thought!' -- and darkness hides my day. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings AMMUNITION COLUMN, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: I am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless chain Last Line: Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chain! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AN ODE TO NATURAL BEAUTY, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a power whose inspiration fills Last Line: I have been loyal to the love of love! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings AN OLD FRENCH POET, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in your sober mood my body have ye laid Last Line: Or wheresoever, following death, my feet have strayed. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings ANCESTORS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold these jewelled, merchant ancestors Last Line: Put forth, and fade across the whispering sea. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Soldiers' Writings ANTAEUS; A FRAGMENT, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So neck to stubborn neck, and obstinate knee to knee Last Line: But no so loud as on eurystheus of old. Subject(s): Hercules; Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers' Writings ANTE ARAM, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper Last Line: Or the soft moan of any grey-eyed lute-player. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Last Line: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Youth; Bereavement; First World War APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, saw god through mud Last Line: Your tears: you are not worth their merriment. Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War ARCADY UNHEEDING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherds go whistling on their way Last Line: Nor blossoms red and white on every tree. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ARMS AND THE BOY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade Last Line: Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ARMS AND THE MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young croesus went to pay his call Last Line: Will captain croesus come this way?' Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ARTS OF LOVE AND HYDROLOGY AS PRACTICED IN HANOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the monsoon Last Line: The broad green %fields of the delta Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ASLEEP, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under his helmet, up against his pack Last Line: Than we who must awake, and waking, say alas! Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The ASSAULT CONVOY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three days of waiting in the islands Last Line: The field mouse hears the sigh of what survives Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings AT CARNOY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the hollow there's the whole brigade Last Line: To take some cursed wood ... O world god made! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AT DAYBREAK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listen for him through the rain Last Line: Abides with me until to-morrow. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Soldiers' Writings AT THE TOMB OF TU DUC, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a man of tangled inclinations Last Line: And never a child Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ATROPOS TO OPHELIA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your feigned indifference hardly hides your love Last Line: Give of your warmth, then, to the sable stranger Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ATTACK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun Last Line: Flounders in mud. O jesus, make it stop! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AUGUST 1914, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What in our lives is burnt Last Line: A fair mouth's broken tooth. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AUTUMN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves Last Line: The burden of your wrongs is on my head. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War AUTUMN, 1939, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beech boles whiten in the swollen stream Last Line: And one by one the warped old casements shut Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War BACK TO LONDON: A POEM OF LEAVE, by JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE Poem Text First Line: I have not wept when I have seen Last Line: Lord, may we hold it fast! Subject(s): London; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BANISHMENT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am banished from the patient men who fight Last Line: And in their tortured eyes I stand forgiven. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Last Line: Stacks of bill rising in piles on the walls. %how far? Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BASE DETAILS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath Last Line: I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Soldiers' Writings; Villains In Literature; World War I; First World War BEAUTY AND BEAUTY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When beauty and beauty meet Last Line: After -- after -- Subject(s): Beauty; Soldiers' Writings BEFORE ACTION, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: By all the glories of the day Last Line: Help me to die, o lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War BEFORE DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come in this hour to set my spirit free Last Line: Hungered for what my heart shall never say. Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Theology BEFORE GINCHY; SEPTEMBER, 1916, by E. ARMINE WODEHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Yon poisonous clod Last Line: Like dante, who have walk'd in hell. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE THE BATTLE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music of whispering trees Last Line: O river of stars and shadows, lead me through the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE THE CHARGE (LOOS, 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is still and the air is keen Last Line: From the face of death. We charge at dawn. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BELIEF, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In medieval churches those stained glass windows I love best Last Line: Beauty survives immaculate, though all her lovers grieve Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BELLINGLISE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds Last Line: Trace in white fire the brave frontiers of france. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BELOVED BEWARE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before you will it so Last Line: This you know is true %love is already there Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BEQUEST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight this anguish hurts my hands Last Line: Your beauty quickening my breath Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BIVOUAC, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was no trace of heaven Last Line: One of them wakes in terror %and the other is gone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BLIGHTERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house is crammed: tier upon tier they grin Last Line: To mock the riddled corpses round bapaume. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BLIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His headstrong thoughts that once in anger strife Last Line: Gropes with his staff along the rumbling city. Subject(s): Blindness; Soldiers' Writings; Visually Handicapped BLUE EVENING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My restless blood now lies a-quiver Last Line: "and ""hush!"" she said, between the boughs." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BODY COUNT: THE DEAD AT TAY NINH, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had no place to put them Last Line: Mopped up the mess for chow Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BRANDED KRAITS, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blackburn saw him first Last Line: Cambodia, the rains, june's weeping light Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BREAK OF DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There seemed a smell of autumn in the air Last Line: Hark! There's the horn: they're drawing the big wood. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness crumbles away Last Line: Just a little white with the dust. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BURMA CASUALTY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three endless weeks of sniping all the way Last Line: Frowsy and starving, daring to suffer alone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BY THE GATEWAY OF INDIA: BOMBAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm's cold javelins constrain Last Line: Knowing life and knowing death Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CAPTIVITY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have clipped the wings of my doves, my messengers Last Line: My heart is escaped in its night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CHAGRIN, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught still as absalom Last Line: And hang from implacable boughs. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Dismay CHAMPAGNE, 1914-1915, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glad revels, in the happy fetes Last Line: Oh, frame your lips as though it were a kiss. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CHILDREN'S TET, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crowds so thick on tran hung dao Last Line: Tonight the city is filled with dragons Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHORIAMBICS: 1, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Not now, when desire burns, and the wind calls, and the Last Line: Bending over me, last light in the dark, once, as of old, your face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CHORIAMBICS: 2, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void, lost in the Last Line: Shrine therein. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big-uddered piebald cattle low Last Line: But the goose-girl is weeping Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii CHUNG'S HOUSE: THE LIBERATION OF HA NOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is one way the war ends Last Line: Who taught with her tongue %impossible things Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CITIES OF DUST, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The click of footsteps down the hall Last Line: (you know the sound), a life disappearing in dust and haze Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CLOUDS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the blue night the unending columns press Last Line: The pacific, october 1913 Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers' Writings COMPANIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave not your bough, my slender song bird sweet Last Line: Then both took wing, and the sun stepped forth in glory. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings COMPASSION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She in the hurling night Last Line: Of the god-faced centaur Subject(s): Compassion; Soldiers' Writings COMRADES: AN EPISODE, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before, before he was aware Last Line: "hearing him whisper, ""o my men, my men!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONICAL HAT, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A moment of awkwardness Last Line: The cool circle of its shade Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONSCIOUS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His fingers wake, and flutter; up the bed Last Line: No time to dream, and ask -- he knows not what. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONSCRIPTS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall in, that awdward squad, and strike no more Last Line: And marched resplendent home with crowns and stars. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CORFE CASTLE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Framed in a jagged window of grey stones Last Line: Quicken the dying island with your breath Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings COUNTER-ATTACK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We'd gained our first objective hours before Last Line: Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War COURAGE, by DYNELEY HUSSEY Poem Text First Line: Alone amid the battle-din untouched Last Line: And she shall lead us back to peace again. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War CRAMPED IN THAT FUNNELLED HOLE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cramped in that funnelled hole, they watched the dawn Last Line: Mixed with the sour sharp odour of the shell. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CRUCIFIXION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the first he would not avoid it Last Line: Was not the end of life, and improved nothing Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DANCE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wind, and as the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DANCER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's in his grave and on his head Last Line: And now I dance to earn my bread Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAUGHTERS OF WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbs Last Line: "years." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War DAVID CLEEK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think that death will press his claim Last Line: To everlasting golf consigns your soul. Subject(s): Golf; Soldiers' Writings; Sports DAWN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opposite me two germans sweat and snore Last Line: Opposite me two germans sweat and snore. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAWN ON THE EAST COAST, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From orford ness to shingle street Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War DAWN ON THE EAST COAST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From orford ness to shingle street Last Line: The living come back slowly from the dead Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War DAY AND NIGHT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through my heart's palace thoughts unnumbered throng Last Line: You, like a queen, pass out into the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAY THAT I HAVE LOVED, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes Last Line: Day that I loved, day that I loved, the night is here! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAYBREAK IN A GARDEN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the farm cocks crowing, loud, and faint, and thin Last Line: And touched the nodding peony-flowers to bid them waken. Subject(s): Morning; Soldiers' Writings DEAD MAN'S COTTAGE, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loft with a ruckle of twisted rafters where the blue sky shows through ... Last Line: Stay. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War DEAD MAN'S DUMP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Last Line: And our wheels grazed his dead face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DEAD MEN'S LOVE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a damned successful poet Last Line: The emptiness of eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEAD MUSICIANS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From you, beethoven, bach, mozart Last Line: They're dead ... For god's sake stop that gramophone. Subject(s): Germany; Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Germans; First World War DEAR, THEY HAVE POACHED THE EYES YOU LOVED SO WELL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The limbs that erstwhile charmed your sight Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEFEATED: FOR WALES, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our courage is an old legend Last Line: In this darkness whence we came Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEPARTURE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes closed, half waking, that first morning Last Line: Deep into the unrefusing ship Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DESERTION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone Last Line: Gay down the way, and on alo Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Soldiers' Writings DESPERATE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the soul is mad Last Line: For the soul's sweet sake Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DESTRUCTION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the street I inhabit Last Line: To the street she must inhabit Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DIED OF WOUNDS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wet white face and miserable eyes Last Line: And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed. Subject(s): Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Bereavement; First World War DINING-ROOM TEA, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were there, and you, and you Last Line: When you were there, and you, and you. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Soldiers' Writings; Tea DISABLED, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark Last Line: And put him into bed? Why don't they come? Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; First World War DON JUAN'S SONG, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is in an ecstasy Last Line: God made them frail to break. Subject(s): Don Juan; Soldiers' Writings DOUBTS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she sleeps, her soul, I know Last Line: Why is fragrance in the hair? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DREAM-FOREST, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where sunshine flecks the green Last Line: The tangled thickets lonely. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DREAMERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land Last Line: And going to the office in the train. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DRYADS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When meadows are grey with the morn Last Line: Whisper, and hide, and are still. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DULCE ET DECORUM EST, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks Last Line: Pro patria mori. Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Hate; Men; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DUST, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the white flame in us is gone Last Line: One moment, what it is to love. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings EAST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If passion and grief and pain and hurt Last Line: In the garden of gethsemane Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings EASTER AT CHRISTMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dark and terrible shadow is swaying in the wind Last Line: An agitator and two thieves are swaying in the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He seemed so certain 'all was going well' Last Line: Ah, yes, but it's the press that leads the way!' Subject(s): Newspapers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War ENCIRCLEMENT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrapped in the night's diseases Last Line: And suffering has sanctified your face Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ENCOUNTER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said I came a weary way Last Line: Zion and sheba in the dust Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ENEMIES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood alone in some queer sunless place Last Line: Because his face could make them understand. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ENGLAND, JULY 1913; TO RUPERT BROOKE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O england, england -- that july Last Line: In cambridge, I did not know you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); England; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; English ENVOI, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Below my room, the noise and measured beat Last Line: Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song, %where stately galleons bowed before the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I EVENING CLOUDS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little flock of clouds go down to rest Last Line: And still on purley common gooseboys sing. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Clouds; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings EXPECTANS EXPECTAVI, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn to midnight, all day through Last Line: To thy great service dedicate. Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War EXPOSURE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us Last Line: But nothing happens. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War EXPRESSION, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call - call - and bruise the air Last Line: And smouldering wrong. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FAFAIA, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stars that seem so close and bright Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FAILURE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because god put his adamantine fate Last Line: And st+irred the heavy curtains on the walls. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FERRY CROSSING NORTH OF HAI PHONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the coast Last Line: River and road break free Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FEVER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt the universe with my fingers; and it was Last Line: Can strike and blind and parch Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FIGHT TO A FINISH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying Last Line: To clear those junkers out of parliament. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FINALE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who continually struck poses Last Line: Should find this last simplicity Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FINDING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the candles and dumb shadows Last Line: And a white dream of you. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings FIRST CASUALTY, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They carried him slowly Last Line: Trailing the jungle floor Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FLIGHT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voices out of the shade that cried Last Line: And stroked my face. I fell asleep. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FRAGMENT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed about the deck, an hour, tonight Last Line: To other ghosts - this one, or that, or I. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FRAGMENT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where aloneness fiercely Last Line: Breaks in crimson flower from the tree %I am, in thee Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FRAGMENT ON PAINTERS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an evil which that race attaints Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FRANCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She triumphs, in the vivid green Last Line: Voices of victory and delight. Subject(s): France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FRENCH MOTHER TO HER UNBORN CHILD, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Beat quietly, hid heart Last Line: Hark to my whispered word - %beat quietly, hid heart Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I FRIENDS: PROEM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone / I do not understand Last Line: And he was gone. Variant Title(s): Battle: The Going;the Going Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Death; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The FROM A PLAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the little men grown huge with death Last Line: And all the good lads there that died for luck Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FROM MY DIARY, JULY 1914, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves / murmuring by myriads in the shimmering trees Last Line: Expanding with the starr'd nocturnal flowers. Subject(s): Diaries; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FULFILLMENT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there love once? I have forgotten her Last Line: All, all my joy, my grief, my love, are thine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FUTILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Move him into the sun Last Line: To break earth's sleep at all? Subject(s): Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War GELATIN FACTORY, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No need to look for the place Last Line: Late on sundays, children %circled and ate Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GERMAN PRISONERS, by JOSEPH LEE Poem Text First Line: When first I saw you in the curious street Last Line: "and could have grasped your hand and cried, ""my brother!" Subject(s): Brotherhood; Prisoners Of War; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, titan lover Last Line: I let you -- I repine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War GLORY OF WOMEN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You love us when we're heroes, home on leave Last Line: His face is trodden deeper in the mud. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women; World War I; First World War GOBLIN REVEL, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In gold and grey, with fleering looks of sin Last Line: That sinks beyond the marshes loud with frogs. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings GOD, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire Last Line: Ah, this miasma of a rotting god! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; God GOD'S HILLS, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In our hill-country of the north Last Line: And we shall see the hills again. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War GOLGOTHA, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through darkness curves a spume of falling flares Last Line: But the brown rats, the nimble scavengers. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War GOMMECOURT: 1, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The wind, which heralded the blackening night Last Line: And turn the night's immensity to day; %or rockets whistle in their upward ride Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 2, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The moment comes when thrice-embittered fire Last Line: To prove the unchartered honour of mankind, %to show how strong the silent passions are Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 3, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The daylight broke and brought the awaited cheer Last Line: Were driven fighting in a forced retreat %across the land that gaped with shell-turned graves Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 4, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The troubled day sped on in weariness Last Line: The common grass still breathed of paradise %and lvoe with silent lips was lord of earth Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOODBYE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So we must say goodbye, my darling Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War GOODBYE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we must say goodbye, my darling Last Line: On my old battledress tonight, my sweet Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii GRAVES AT QUANG TRI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Too late, tanks circle the old french tower Last Line: The enemy we stayed Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GREATER LOVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red lips are not so red Last Line: Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War GREETINGS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The aeroplane engines in my head Last Line: If you have gone, and left no word behind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HAUNTED, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening was in the wood, louring with storm Last Line: And at his heart the strangling clasp of death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HAUNTINGS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey tumult of these after yearse Last Line: The pacific, 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HE DIED SMILING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patting goodbye, doubtless they told the lad Last Line: "and truthfully wrote the mother ""tim died smiling." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War HE WONDERS WHETHER TO PRAISE OR TO BLAME HER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over Last Line: For, foul or lovely, 'twas a fool that loved you. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HEART'S FIRST WORD (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all her soft dark hair Last Line: Of kisses to be kist. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings HEAVEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish (fly-replete, in depth of june Last Line: There shall be no more land, say fish. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands; Anglers HEREAFTER, by RONALD LEWIS CARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's autumn-time on salisbury plain Last Line: When fighting's over be there still! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War HILLS OF HOME, by MALCOLM HEMPHREY Poem Text First Line: Oh! Yon hills are filled with sunlight Last Line: And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home. Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War HOLI, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village is growing fertile Last Line: When the god's last will is done Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HOME, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came back late and tired last night Last Line: All night I could not sleep. Subject(s): Home; Soldiers' Writings HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the ant should fail with desire Last Line: Bred in the itching warmness of your hand Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HOME THOUGHTS FROM FRANCE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wan, fragile faces of joy Last Line: My heart with futile bounds. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOME THOUGHTS IN [OR, FROM] LAVENTIE, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green gardens in laventie Last Line: Home, what a perfect place! Subject(s): England; Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War HORACE AT TWENTY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingales sing, lalage Last Line: Twas you that told me so Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HORSE-BATHING PARADE, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES Poem Text First Line: A few clouds float across the grand blue sky Last Line: And hear the surf rush hissing up the sand. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOSPITAL BARGE AT CERISY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Budging the sluggard ripples of the somme Last Line: Kings passed in the dark barge, which merlin dreamed. Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers' Writings HOW TO DIE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark clouds are smouldering into red Last Line: With due regard for decent taste. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HUMANIST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crivelli, dead four hundred years and more Last Line: By strewing marrows carefully about the feet of saints Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings I JUST FOUND MY COUNTRY, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: I just found my country Last Line: Can only extend to others Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Soldiers' Writings IN BARRACKS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barrack-square, washed clean with rain Last Line: Another night; another day.' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War IN EXAMINATION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! From quiet skies Last Line: Still scribbling, blear-eyed and stolid immortals. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by. Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips IN HOSPITAL: POONA (1), by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I did not fight for sleep Last Line: But love survives the venom of the snake Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Soldiers' Writings IN HOSPITAL: POONA (2), by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has sucked and beat the encircling hills Last Line: The heart's calm voice that stills the baying hounds Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN MEMORY OF RUPERT BROOKE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In alien earth, across a troubled sea Last Line: Song on his lips, and in his hand a sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings IN PICCADILLY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lamp-lit faces, to you Last Line: Lights your passionless dust. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN THE MORNING (LOOS, 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firefly haunts were lighted yet Last Line: In the town of loos in the morning. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN THE PINK', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So davies wrote: 'this leaves me in the pink' Last Line: And still the war goes on -- he don't know why. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN THE UNDERWORLD, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lived in the underworld so long Last Line: Grazed the dark waves and shivering further flew. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN THE VILLAGE OF YEN SO, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the dust of the village brick factory Last Line: As she does, staring in at the door Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fret the nonchalant noon Last Line: My brother, our hearts and years. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Last Line: The ways they stare through [the] windows in silence Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INDIAN DAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn's cold imperative compels Last Line: The timeless songs of mountain streams Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings INDOLENCE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a ringdove fat with sun Last Line: Your pleasure is the beast of love Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings INFANTRY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day these men ask nothing, and obey Last Line: They take their silent stations for the fight %rum's holy unction makes the dubious bold Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii INSENSIBILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are men who yet before they are killed Last Line: The eternal reciprocity of tears. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INSPECTION, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You! What d'you mean by this?' I rapped Last Line: "the race will bear field-marshal god's inspection." Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; War; Drills & Minor Tactics INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION OF A LONG POEM, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone sometimes by the gates of death Last Line: My resurrection, this my recompense! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INVOCATION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath Last Line: And stillness from the pools of paradise. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ISLAND, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched your houseboat, young patrician Last Line: And these pale girls whose hearts are with the dead Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the most dear that is granted us here Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings JASON AND MEDEA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night appeared to authorise it Last Line: And in a nest of snakes he courted her Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings JEALOUSY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see you, who were so wise and cool Last Line: -- oh, when that time comes, you'll be dirty too! Subject(s): Jealousy; Soldiers' Writings JOURNEY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were the fore-runners of an army Last Line: Not knowing how you pined Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings JOY-BELLS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells Last Line: Shoulder to shoulder with the motor-bus. Subject(s): Bells; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War JUNGLE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mole-blue indolence the sun %plays idly on the stagnant pool Last Line: Or does the will's long struggle end %with the last kindness of a foe or friend? Subject(s): Jungles; Soldiers' Writings KARANJE VILLAGE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweeper said karanje had a temple Last Line: And will she understand Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings KEATS, BEFORE ACTION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: A little moment more - o, let me hear Last Line: Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all, %the very all in all Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I KILLED IN ACTION, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your 'youth' has fallen from its shelf Last Line: In inadvertence let you die. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings KINDLINESS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love has changed to kindliness Last Line: And love has changed to kindliness. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings KINGS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kings of the earth are men of might Last Line: Let them think of him to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LADY IN BLACK, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And then you can speak to him tidy %lady in black Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAMENT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh absalom, beloved, what can I say Last Line: To blow on these ashes and kindle my flame Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAMENTATIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found him in the guard-room at the base Last Line: Such men have lost all patriotic feeling. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 1, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance Last Line: To my three idols -- love and arms and song. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Sidney Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 10, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought happiness, but it has been Last Line: Amid the clash of arms I was at peace. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 11. ON RETURNING TO THE FRONT AFTER LEAVE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apart sweet women (for whom heaven be blessed) Last Line: That world of cowards, hypocrites, and fools. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 12, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting sun Last Line: New masterpieces of more rare romance. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 2, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not that I always struck the proper mean Last Line: Has come and scattered all my path with flowers. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 3, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should you be astonished that my heart Last Line: To live and dream and have my joy in yours. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 4. TO ... IN CHURCH, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I was drawn here from a distant place Last Line: And I confess it by adoring you. Subject(s): Churches; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Cathedrals LAST POEMS: SONNET 5, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent Last Line: And be a power to cheer and fortify. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 6, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you are more desirable to me Last Line: Shall drink its last of earthly happiness. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 7, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There have been times when I could storm and plead Last Line: For that stern part that I have yet to play. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 8, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love of woman, you are known to be Last Line: Love only tells it what true torture is. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 9, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, seeing I have no hope, then let us part Last Line: Your low, sweet voice, your smile, and your dear eyes. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings LEST WE FORGET - 1926, by CURTIS WHEELER Poem Text First Line: Lest we forget! / the months swing into years Last Line: Lest we forget! Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LETTER FROM THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across seven thousand miles of sea and time Last Line: And you shall turn the key, my sweet, and rest Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LETTER TO A LIVE POET, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, since the last elizabethan died Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LETTERS AND DIARY, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another participant in the attack upon belloy-en-santerre Subject(s): Diaries; Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LIBIDO, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should I know? The enormous wheels of will Last Line: Quieter than a dead man on a bed. Subject(s): Desire; Soldiers' Writings LIEBSTOD, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who, conceived beneath another star Last Line: Our manhood faultless and our honor clean. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the night, like some great dark drop-scene Last Line: The broken heralds of a doleful day. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LINES ON A TUDOR MANSION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slim sunburnt girls adorn Last Line: Will perpetuate our vision %who die young Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LINES ON A YOUNG GIRL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see the intolerant toss of her silken head Last Line: When young boys tap the well-spring of her pity Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LINES WRITTEN IN A FIRE-TRENCH, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight, and above the hollow trench Last Line: The tense, packed faces in the black redoubt. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LITTLE DOG'S DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LOTUS TEA, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night in ha noi Last Line: His face disappears in the tea like a river Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LOUSE HUNTING, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nudes - stark and glistening Last Line: Blown from sleep's trumpet. Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War LOVE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate Last Line: All this is love; and all love is but this. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LOVE AND LUST, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No dream of mortal joy Last Line: Finding love waqs lust Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LOVE AND LUST, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No dream of mortal joy Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MADE IN HA NOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They live in different light Last Line: Lovers hurry back from fields Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MADMAN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered crystal of his mind Last Line: And the maddening ultimate beauty of the dreamed angelic faces Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Last Line: And did a thousand years go by in vain? %and does another thousand start again? Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii MAKATOOB, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When to the last assault our bugles blow Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings MAKTOOB, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shell surprised our post one day Last Line: And wisdom of the east. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MARCHING (AS SEEN FROM THE LEFT FILE), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes catch ruddy necks Last Line: On strong eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MARY AND GABRIEL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young mary, loitering once her garden way Last Line: The air was colder, and grey. She stood alone. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MEMORIES, by EDWARD HILTON YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Far up at glorian the wind is sighing Last Line: Nor pay the debt I owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Kennet Of The Dene, 1st Baron Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MENELAUS AND HELEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot through troy's ruin menelaus broke Last Line: And paris slept on by scamander side. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Soldiers' Writings; Trojan War; World War I; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War MENTAL CASES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Last Line: Pawing us who dealt them war and madness. Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers' Writings; War Injuries; World War I; Madness; Mental Illness; First World War MID-WINTER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old dafydd, eyes like bloodhound's red with age Last Line: And the river runs again with gladness to the sea Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MIDNIGHT IN INDIA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is no mined and cratered deep Last Line: And watch this last effulgent world arise Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MIDNIGHT, THE CUU LONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The top floor, saigon's grand hotel Last Line: The trung sisters and tran hung dao Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MIDNIGHT: 1917, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink my blood in secret grief, I weep Last Line: When hate has loosed its hounds of hell and death! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War; Sorrow; Sadness MIDSUMMER FROST (1), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Stabbed by life's jealous eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MIDSUMMER FROST (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Unvexed by july's warm eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MINERS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a whispering in my hearth Last Line: Left in the ground. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MINIATURE ON A BOOK OF HOURS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass so green, the sky so blue Last Line: Creavisti, domine; gauddeamus igitur Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MIRROR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MISSING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How you put those dots together and got beethoven Last Line: Searching the sky where already you'd [or, you had] disappeared Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MISSING, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: They told me nothing more: I bow my head Last Line: Tell me he's rotting in a place abhorred - %not this, not this, o lord! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I MONOLOGUE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, will you come Last Line: Your narrow bed will soon %be white with snow Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MORNING EXPRESS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the windswept platform, pinched and white Last Line: Who sped them stand to wave a last farewell. Subject(s): Railroads; Soldiers' Writings; Railways; Trains MORNING GLORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this meadow starred with spring Last Line: Sleeps below the crimson thorn. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MORNING-LAND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old english songs, you bring to me Last Line: Clattering about the dairy floor. Subject(s): Morning; Soldiers' Writings MOSES: A PLAY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pharaoh's desires Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MOTIFS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tide is slack in equipoise Last Line: And would forget you, if I could, my dear Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MOUNTAIN OVER ABERDARE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this high quarried ledge I see Last Line: This wet evening, in a lost age Subject(s): Aberdare, Wales; Soldiers' Writings MUMMIA, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As those of old drank mummia Last Line: Love, that our love be this! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MUTABILITY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say there's a high windless world and strange Last Line: South kensington -- makaweli, 1913 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MY DAYS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My days are but the tombs of buried hours Last Line: For in their works their life returns again. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MY OWN LITTLE CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from the only county in tennessee that did not secede Last Line: And half the weight and half-life %of a half-healed and hurting world Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers' Writings; U.s. - History MY SOUL IS ROBBED BY YOUR MOST TREACHEROUS EYES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And takes unto itself the strangest of strange lands Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NEARER, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer and ever nearer Last Line: Receive this little breath. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War NEXT MORNING, by E. ARMINE WODEHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Today the sun shines bright Last Line: There, with the setting of the sun! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War NHAT DA TRACH: ONE NIGHT SWAMP, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That night princess tien dung Last Line: Impenetrable swamp, sea beasts surrounding their boats, %strange birds hovering above Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT AND DAY: 1. IN THE WORKSHOP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces Last Line: Grazed the dark waves and shivering further flew. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NIGHT AND DAY: 4, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wander - I wander - o will she wander here Last Line: Near. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NIGHT-PIECE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye hooded witches, baleful shapes that moan Last Line: Stirs to the voice of everlasting sleep. Subject(s): Night; Soldiers' Writings; Bedtime NIMROD IN SEPTEMBER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When half the drowsy world's a-bed Last Line: Huge clamour in the sultry brakes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NO MAN'S LAND, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No man's land is an eerie sight Last Line: Is hunting for blood in no man's land. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NOAH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When old noah stared across the floods Last Line: Earth was saved; and noah danced a jig. Subject(s): Noah (bible); Soldiers' Writings NUI BA DEN: BLACK VIRGIN MOUNTAIN, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams you've returned before Last Line: Nui ba den, home %at last Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 O THOU, GOD OF ALL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings OBSERVATION POST: FORWARD AREA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thorns are bleached and brittle Last Line: Death lives here now Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings OCTOBER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Last Line: Whereof ye nevermore shall be possessed. Subject(s): October; Soldiers' Writings ODE IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS FALLEN FOR FRANCE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, it is fitting on this holiday Last Line: For you have died for france and vindicated us. Variant Title(s): America And France Subject(s): Americans In France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ODI ET AMO, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did the fingers of the hand Last Line: With all the unbearable beauty of the dead Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ODYSSEY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we sailed homewards burning embers Last Line: To ithaca, and shiver with delight Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings OLWEN AND TALIESIN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said where is the horseman Last Line: The honeysuckle nods in silence all along the singing lane Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ON A BEREAVED GIRL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She who yielded once Last Line: And leaves the floating mesh, %the soul %some shape %unknown Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings ON EMBARKATION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider this silent disciplined assembly Last Line: And waves me down this first clandestine mile Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ON LEAVE: MARRIAGE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we left the highroad and sped dimly Last Line: Denying evil, plague and death and war Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ON RECEIVING [THE FIRST] NEWS OF THE WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow is a strange white word Last Line: Its pristine bloom. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ON THE DEATH OF SMET-SMET, THE HIPPOTAMUS-GODDESS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was wrinkled and huge and hideous? She was our mother Last Line: Now god is dying? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ON THE ROAD, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: We halted, with the urgent spring behind Last Line: I saw new radiance in the land we passed, %and heard a sudden murmur in the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I ON THE WELSH MOUNTAINS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To note precisely all I know Last Line: This wet evening, in a lost age Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ONE DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I have been happy. All the day Last Line: Plays hourned to a little bitter mould. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by FLOYD HARDIN Poem Text First Line: Help me, o christ, to hold thy sacred cross Last Line: (his head appears!—thank god!—I've popped my man!) Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War OPTIMISM, by ALFRED VICTOR RATCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: At last there'll dawn the last of the long year Last Line: Your kind shall die, and sweeter days be born. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War PARABLE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul within his pastoral Last Line: According to the word of god Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PARALYSIS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For moveless limbs no pity I crave Last Line: To you alone with your hills and heaven. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PASTORALS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I ever a young field Last Line: Of decay and generation Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PATROL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The branches murmur with the soft thunder Last Line: Sleep then for ever, my dreaming german soldier Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PEACE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows %through her eyes Last Line: In her being is burning, burning Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PEASANT FARE: MEDITATIONS ON A MUSEUM CATALOGUE FOUND, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why in these paintings of the middle ages Last Line: Of pure and honest terror Variant Title(s): Peasant Fare: At The Museum Of Fine Art Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PEASANT SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seed is costly Last Line: And, bearing endless days %somehow give praise? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Last Line: History staggers in their wake. %the peasants watch them die Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii PICTURES FROM QUANG NAM, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The picture brings it back Last Line: You counted the flowers, knowing %one would be gone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PICTURES OF THE BUDDHA, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At wat po a thousand buddhas stare Last Line: A young monk smokes and listens Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PINE-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky Last Line: Being glad of you, o pine-trees and the sky! Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Last Line: There may be other scores to settle Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POEMS FROM THE CHINESE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Linger not in my library Last Line: And leaving to me the five birches Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PORT OF CALL: BRAZIL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We watch the heavy-odoured beast Last Line: Will breed a new direction through the deep Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Travel POST-SCRIPT: FOR GWENO, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should go away Last Line: And has its quiet honour %among the glittering stars your voices named Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PRELUDE AND FUGUE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather had ploughed his master's land Last Line: What seemed a long way is not far to go Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PRESIDENT DIEM'S MOTORCADE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: President diem's limousine Last Line: To ask in confession Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRODIGIES, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the worst of those days Last Line: To hold up the sky Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PROLOGUE: THE GRINDER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to grind? Then answer, and I'll go Last Line: Bad luck unless your sparks can warm the night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PUBLIC GARDENS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a few top-heavy holly-hocks, wilting in arid beds Last Line: In and out of the dreaming gardens Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings QUEST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see objectively Last Line: Have knowledge that I cannot share Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings QUIET AMERICANS, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We hold our glasses out Last Line: The sad and lovely music Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RAID, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The estuary siltedup Last Line: The indolent red beaches %the confusion, the fear Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RAIDERS' DAWN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly the civilized Last Line: Tells that beauty %was startled there Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RAPELLING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We dive happily Last Line: Out into the jungle Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RED POPPIES IN THE CORN, by W. CAMPBELL GALBRAITH Poem Text First Line: I've seen them in the morning light Last Line: Red poppies in the corn. Subject(s): Poppies; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War REINCARNATION, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too remember distant golden days Last Line: Until perfection reach eternity. Subject(s): Immortality; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RELIEVED (GUILLEMONT), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are weary and silent Last Line: Where light drowns. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery REMORSE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit Last Line: Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RENDEZVOUS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have a rendezvous with death Last Line: I shall not fail that rendezvous. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War RENEWAL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tragedy has no curtain Last Line: The instinctive trust it gave Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth Last Line: I'm going stark, staring mad because of the guns. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War REQUIESCANT, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lonely watches night by night Last Line: O house them in the home of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The RESURGAM, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exiled afar from youth and happy love Last Line: Back into earthly flesh that was its loved abode. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RETROSPECT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your arms was still delight Last Line: Mataiea, january 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre the night is Last Line: Or her kisses where a serpent hides. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Skylarks; First World War REUNION, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years. Too long a separation Last Line: The war closes its circle around them Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RHONDDA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hum of shaft-wheel, whirr and clamour Last Line: Without counting the days Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RIVER MUSIC, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One by one the lanterns Last Line: Even the moon might die %on her shoulder Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RIVER TEMPLE: WAI, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minnows leap like silver coins Last Line: Compassion of the holy womb Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RUN-IN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hours after midnight she was in her proper position Last Line: Bewildered faces, yes, of children Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RUPERT BROOKE, by JAMES B. DOLLARD Poem Source First Line: Slain by the arrows of apollo, lo Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry And Poets; Soldiers' Writings RUPERT BROOKE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face was lifted to the golden sky Last Line: Tarry by that old garden of your delight. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties RUPERT BROOKE (DIED APRIL 23, 1915), by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I have talked with old euripides Last Line: While our immortal fellowship remains. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings RUPERT BROOKE (IN MEMORIAM), by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: I never knew you save as all men know Last Line: And god has laid his finger on your lips. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties SACCO WRITES TO HIS SON, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not want to die. I wanted you Last Line: And my hand trembles - I am oh, so weak Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SAUL, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why quails my heart? God riding with / a mortal would absorb him Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.); Soldiers' Writings SAUL, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why quails my heart? God riding with %a mortal would absorb him Last Line: Transport me instantly %for my soul yearns and fears Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.); Soldiers' Writings SEASIDE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly out from the friendly lilt of the band Last Line: And dies between the seawemple) Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SECOND BEST, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the dark, o heart Last Line: O heart, in the great dawn! Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Theology SECRET MUSIC, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep such music in my brain Last Line: And music dawned above despair. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SENTRY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have begun to die Last Line: In the flower of futy, the folded poppy %night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii SEPARATION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I died into his eyes Last Line: What the hands have slain Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SHADOWS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon turns round the earth Last Line: Through dark, through light Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SICK LEAVE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm Last Line: Are they not still your brothers through our blood?' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SLEEPING BEAUTY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sojourning through a southern realm in youth Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Soldiers' Writings SLEEPING OUT: FULL MOON, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sleep within Last Line: Of light. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SLUG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slug had climbed, when first I shut the door Last Line: What earthly use can pen and paper be Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SNAIL GATHERERS OF CO LOA THANH, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The legends of co loa thanh, old snail city Last Line: And we without our bows Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOLDIER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I within me holding Last Line: As england is, this spring morning Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, great new titan! Last Line: Or a word in the brain's ways. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SOMETIMES EVEN NOW I MAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SOMME, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: From amiens to abbeville Last Line: And poppy-mantled meadows blow %in murdered picardy Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SOMME FLOWER TALK, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Said the cornflower to the pimpernel Last Line: Here in the clash of human kind %her marshal of the fields Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SONG, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh love,' they said, 'is king of kings' Last Line: Love would be merely you. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings SONG, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All suddenly the wind comes soft Last Line: And my heart puts forth its pain. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings SONG, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way of love was thus Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O have you seen the thorn that grows Last Line: Such beauty intermingled %with such woe Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh journeyman, oh journeyman Last Line: Long after death has come and gone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in sheets of softest linen Last Line: And glitter in the starry night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG IN THE GREEN LIGHT, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young girl sings in the green light Last Line: Hope is an unharvested field' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG OF SONGS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me at morn but only with your laugh Last Line: Throbbing though you, and sobbing unsubdued. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Soldiers' Writings SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fifty years, when peace outshines Last Line: And lived in time to share the fun. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Second World War SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Last Line: The nearness that is waiting in my bed, %the gradual self-effacement of the dead Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii SONGS FOR THE NIGHT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stars seem gilded nipples Last Line: Orion's sword hangs glittering Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONGS OF SLEEP, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With joy my heart Last Line: Of the day's fire %love's pyre Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true Last Line: And do not love at all. Of these am I. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Death will find me Last Line: Amusedly, among the ancient dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Death will find me Last Line: Amusedly, among the ancient dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET (ABOARD A TROOPSHIP) TO GWENO, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new occasion like a star has risen Last Line: Where knives give bitter blow on counter-blow Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET REVERSED, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights Last Line: And henry, a stock-broker, doing well. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO MY FRIEND, WITH AN IDENTITY DISC, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever I had dreamed of my dead name Last Line: Until the name grow blurred and fade away. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Soldiers' Writings SONNET TO NEGRO SOLDIERS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: They shall go down unto life's borderland Last Line: There breaks this day their dawn of liberty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers' Writings SONNET: 2, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling rain is music overhead Last Line: "and sometimes, smiling, murmur, ""be it so!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONNET: IN TIME OF REVOLT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thing must end. I am no boy! I am Last Line: This too avuncular officiousness, %intolerable consanguinity Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SOUBRETTES, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old soubrettes could always dance Last Line: Is always now a shudder and a scream Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SOUTH WIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been, south wind, this may-day morning Last Line: When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn. Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Wind; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SOUTHEND AT DUSK, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unobtrusive trampships gather Last Line: I tell you, by the christ, there's no one there Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SPIRITUAL ISOLATION: A FRAGMENT, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My maker shunneth me Last Line: Even in the rose-time when all else is well. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SPORTSMEN IN PARADISE, by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They left the fury of the fight Last Line: "and there's a cricket-field!" Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties SPRING IN THE TRENCHES, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The racing clouds have borne her message down Last Line: Behold new life within the tomb of death %'importunate and vivid as before Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SPRING OFFENSIVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Halted against the shade of a last hill Last Line: Why speak they not of comrades that went under? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SPRING, 1916, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow, rigid, is this masquerade Last Line: Spring! God pity your mood! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been on duty from two till four Last Line: And get my bloody old sins washed white! Subject(s): Army Life; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War STORM AND SUNLIGHT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In barns we crouch, and under stacks of straw Last Line: And share his benediction with the flowers. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War STRETCHER CASE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He woke; the clank and racket of the train Last Line: Lung tonic, mustard, liver pills and beer. Variant Title(s): Blighty Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SUCCESS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think if you had loved me when I wanted Last Line: And I'm alone; and you have not awoken. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SUICIDE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end came suddenly for him Last Line: Now lies serene and serious as a man Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a simple soldier boy Last Line: The hell where youth and laughter go. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SURVIVORS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain Last Line: Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SWAN'S WAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I changed myself into a swan Last Line: A dying swan's lament Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SWIMMER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early, before the soldiers are awake Last Line: Shivering and sure of what runs on and on Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TAY SO'N ARMIES, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the tay so'n soldiers Last Line: From mountains to coast Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TELL ME, STRANGER, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Tell me, stranger, is it true Last Line: Are all the dappled fields of kew %bowing to their lord the spring? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TEMPLE AT QUAN LOI, 1969, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the gate Last Line: Her prayers rain down like rockets Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPLE OF LITERATURE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nine hundred years they traveled Last Line: The wall of the quiet heart? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE AISNE (1914-15), by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Last Line: We helped to hold the lines along the aisne. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BATTLEFIELD, by SYDNEY OSWALD Poem Text First Line: Around no fire the soldiers sleep tonight Last Line: To guard from hurt his faithful sleeping friend. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BEACH ROAD BY THE WOOD, by GEOFFREY HOWARD Poem Text First Line: I know a beach road Last Line: And the face I never found. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BEGINNING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I shall rise and leave my friends Last Line: -- and my heart is sick with memories. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE BUGLER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HARVEY Poem Text First Line: God dreamed a man Last Line: Trumpeting men through beauty to god's side. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce wrath of solomon Last Line: Gone as his mouth's last sighs. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Soldiers' Writings THE BUSY HEART, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted Last Line: I have need to busy my heart with quietude. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CALL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the nothingness of sleep Last Line: The dust of the dead gods, alone. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, by GILBERT WATERHOUSE Poem Text First Line: A bowl of daffodils Last Line: Secure from war's alarms. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CATHEDRAL, by WILLIAM G. SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Hope and mirth are gone. Beauty is departed Last Line: Forgiving, praying, singing, feeling sorry. Alternate Author Name(s): S., W. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE CHALLENGE OF THE GUNS, by ARTHUR NELSON FIELD Poem Text First Line: By day, by night, along the lines Last Line: All that we have and are we lay on england's shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, A. N. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War THE CHANCES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Last Line: The ruddy lot all rolled in one. Jim's mad. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CHARM, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In darkness the loud sea makes moan Last Line: And holiness upon the deep. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CHILTERNS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hands, my dear, adorable Last Line: And I daresay she will do. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CHORAL UNION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He staggered in from night and frost and fog Last Line: He wondered when lord god would turn him out. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CLOISTER, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our eyes no longer sail the tidal streets Last Line: These he has gardened, for they please his eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women And War THE CRICKETERS OF FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first to climb the parapet Last Line: "a sportsman and a soldier still!" Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CROSS; TO THE MOTHERS OF THE MARTYRED DEAD UPON FIELD OF BATTLE, by JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER Poem Text First Line: My flesh cries out for its own flesh! Last Line: And share with thee the tortures of the cross. Subject(s): Martyrs; Mothers & Sons; Religion; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Theology THE DAY'S MARCH, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The battery grides and jingles Last Line: I lift my head and smile. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEAD HEROES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flame out, you glorious skies Last Line: And claim god's kiss. Subject(s): Consolation; Soldiers' Writings THE DEAD-BEAT, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dropped - more sullenly than wearily Last Line: "that scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEATH-BED, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Last Line: Then, far away, the thudding of the guns. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE BABYLONIAN HORDES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They left their babylon bare / or all its tall men Last Line: To a gird of babylon's mirth. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Soldiers' Writings THE DOCTOR, by ROGER WODDIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should lose, think only this of me Last Line: I'm damned if I'll just be our man in devon. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings THE DRAGON AND THE UNDYING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the flares go up; the dragon sings Last Line: To hail the burning heavens they left unsung. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DREAM, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scent Last Line: To the foul beast of war that bludgeons life. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War THE DYING SOLDIER, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are houses, he moaned Last Line: He moaned and swooned to death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE EFFECT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd never seen so many dead before Last Line: Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE END, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the blast of lightning from the east Last Line: "nor my titanic tears the seas be dried." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE FACE (GUILLEMONT), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the smoke of men's wrath Last Line: Broken. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FATHERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snug at the club two fathers sat Last Line: These impotent old friends of mine. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FEMALE GOD, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We curl into your eyes Last Line: Your world. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE FISH, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a cool curving world he lies Last Line: And the dark tide are one with him. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Anglers; Ocean THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH: THRENODY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day that youth had died Last Line: All, except only love. Love had died long ago. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE GENERAL, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morning: good-morning!' the general said Last Line: But he did for them both by his plan of attack. Subject(s): Generals; Hate; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE GODDESS IN THE WOOD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a flowered dell the lady venus stood Last Line: And the immortal eyes to look on death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE GREAT LOVER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been so great a lover: filled my days Last Line: "praise you, ""all these were lovely""; say, ""he loved." Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings; War THE HAWTHORN TREE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not much to me is yonder lane Last Line: Until I've heard he's dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HERITAGE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cry out on time that he may take away Last Line: Not we, but others, hear the bird that sings. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE HERO, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said Last Line: Except that lonely woman with white hair. Subject(s): Mothers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HILL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill Last Line: -- and then you suddenly cried, and turned away. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Soldiers' Writings THE HOSTS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purged, with the life they left, of all Last Line: We played it through as the author planned. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE IMMORTALS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I killed them, but they would not die Last Line: But now I call him dirty louse. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE INVESTITURE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God with a roll of honour in his hand Last Line: You roam forlorn along the streets of gold. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE JEW, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, from whose loins I sprung Last Line: Then why do they sneer at me? Subject(s): Bible; Freedom; Jews; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Liberty; Judaism; Theology THE JOLLY COMPANY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars, a jolly company Last Line: Star to faint star, across the sky. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE JUNGLE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mole-blue indolence the sun / plays idly on the stagnant pool Subject(s): Jungles; Soldiers' Writings THE KISS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To these I turn, in these I trust Last Line: Quail from your downward darting kiss. Subject(s): Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAST MEETING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the night was falling warm and still Last Line: And youth, that dying, touched my lips to song. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAST POST, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bugler sent a call of high romance Last Line: "jolly young fusiliers too good to die." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LIFE BEYOND, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wakes, who never thought to wake again Last Line: It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE LITTLE DOG'S DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Dogs; Death - Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE MAGPIES IN PICARDY, by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magpies in picardy / are more than I can tell Last Line: He flies as poets might.) Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii; Journeys; Trips; Second World War THE MESSINES ROAD, by JOHN E. STEWART Poem Text First Line: The road that runs up to messines Last Line: And give the highway back its state. Subject(s): Roads; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Paths; Trails; First World War THE MIRROR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE NEW SCHOOL, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet Last Line: A flame that they took with strong young hands from the altar-fires of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE NEXT WAR, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out there, we walked quite friendly up to death Last Line: He fights for death, for lives; not men, for flags. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE NIGHT JOURNEY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hands and lit faces eddy to a line Last Line: The lamps fade; and the stars. We are alone. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just now the lilac is in bloom Last Line: And is there honey still for tea? Subject(s): England; Grantchester, England; Soldiers' Writings; English THE ONE BEFORE THE LAST, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt I was in love again Last Line: You ever hurt abit! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE ONE LOST, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mingle with your bones Last Line: Freed by your thrall. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE ONE-LEGGED MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Propped up on a stick he viewed the august weald Last Line: And thought: 'thank god they had to amputate!' Subject(s): Amputees; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So abram rose, and clave the wood, and went Last Line: And half the seed of europe, one by one. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War THE REAR-GUARD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Groping along the tunnel, step by step Last Line: Unloading hell behind him step by step. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE REDEEMER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep Last Line: Mumbling: 'o christ almighty, now I'm stuck!' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE ROAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is thronged with women: soldiers pass Last Line: The road would serve you well enough for bed. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SEND-OFF, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the close darkening lanes they sang their way Last Line: Up half-known roads. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War; World War I; First World War THE SENTRY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'd found an old boche dug-out, and he knew Last Line: "I see your lights!"" but ours had long died out." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SHOW, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul looked down from a vague height with death Last Line: And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SIGN, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are here in a wood of little beeches Last Line: Across the moon. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SONG OF THE BEASTS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come away! Come away Last Line: To the black unresting plains of the calling sea. Subject(s): Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE SONG OF THE PILGRIMS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What light of unremembered skies Last Line: Among the forests of the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Last Line: O sir, that christian souls should come to that!' Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement; First World War THE TREASURE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When colour goes home into the eyes Last Line: When children sleep, ere night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE TRENCHES, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Endless lanes sunken in the clay Last Line: Night for menace with weary eyes. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE TROOP SHIP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grotesque and queerly huddled Last Line: Ale on your face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE TROOPS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Last Line: The legions who have suffered and are dust. Variant Title(s): Prelude: The Troops Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE VISION OF THE ARCHANGELS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world Last Line: With sorrowful quiet faces downward to the plain. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE VOICE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Safe in the magic of my woods Last Line: By god! I wish -- I wish that you were dead! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE VOICE OF THE GUNS, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: We are the guns, and your masters! Saw ye our flashes? Last Line: Loose them, and shatter, and spare not! We are the guns! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE VOLUNTEER, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent Last Line: Who goes to join the men of agincourt. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE WAY THAT LOVERS USE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way that lovers use is this Last Line: -- so lovers say. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE WAYFARERS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place Last Line: Into the waste we know not, into the night? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THEIR FRAILTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's got a blighty wound. He's safe; and then Last Line: So long as he's all right. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THERE'S WISDOM IN WOMEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh love is fair, and love is rare'; my dear one she said Last Line: Have cried on love so bitterly, with so true a tongue? Subject(s): Women; Soldiers' Writings THEY', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bishop tells us: 'when the boys come back' Last Line: And the bishop said: 'the ways of god are strange!' Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THIEN QUANG LAKE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the window, the street sweeper Last Line: Whose name is the buddha's light Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THOUGHTS ON THE SHAPE OF THE HUMAN BODY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can we find? How can we rest? How can Last Line: Patiently ever, through the eternal night! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THRENODY FOR A STARRY NIGHT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White frost; intricate bare branches Last Line: End the mad feud. The worm is love Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THRUSHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim Last Line: And storms the gate of nothingness for proof. Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; Thrushes; World War I; First World War TIARE TAHITI, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mamua, when our laughter ends Last Line: Papeete, february 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Tahiti TIGER OF CAMDEN TOWN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal tiger, fretting in the dark Last Line: Would ravage all things if he were released Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TO A COMRADE IN ARMS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red fool, my laughing comrade Subject(s): Christianity; Soldiers' Writings TO A COMRADE IN ARMS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red fool, my laughing comrade Last Line: What vow shall we vow who love you Subject(s): Christianity; Soldiers' Writings TO A SKYLARK BEHIND OUR TRENCHES, by EDWARD DE STEIN Poem Text First Line: Thou little voice! Thou happy sprite Last Line: We live. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO AN OLD LADY SEEN AT A GUEST-HOUSE FOR SOLDIERS, by ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Quiet thou didst stand at thine appointed place Last Line: The radiance of thy benignity. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO ANY DEAD OFFICER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, how are things in heaven? I wish you'd say Last Line: I wish they'd killed you in a decent show. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii; Second World War TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Last Line: Till suddenly, at arras, you possessed that hinted land Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii TO HIS DEAD BODY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried Last Line: Dear, red-faced father god who lit your mind. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War TO MY BROTHER, by MILES JEFFREY GAME DAY Poem Text First Line: This will I do when we have peace again Last Line: Proving your presence near, in spite of death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO MY BROTHER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, my brother, search my face Last Line: And through your victory I shall win the light. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO RILKE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke, if you had known that I was trying Last Line: Once and for ever, rilke, but in oh a distant land Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TO RUPERT BROOKE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we, a happy few Last Line: Hail, singer, and farewell! Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties TO THE MEMORY OF RUPERT BROOKE, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He loved to live his life with laughing lips Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry And Poets; Soldiers' Writings TO THE UTTERMOST FARTHING, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: He too! He too!' the veteran paused, the sound Last Line: Not a man spoke - yet clamorous voices cried: %stumbling, he walked outside Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TO VICTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return to greet me, colours that were my joy Last Line: When the blithe wind laughs on the hills with uplifted voice. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO-DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is to-day, a child in white and blue Last Line: May thrill the lonely silences with song. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TOGETHER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splashing along the boggy woods all day Last Line: But at the stable-door he'll say good-night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TOWN AND COUNTRY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Last Line: And dumb and mad and eyeless like the sky. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TRANSPORT (COURCELLES), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon swims in milkiness Last Line: Then again the limbers and grotesque mules. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TREE AND SKY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let my soul, a shining tree Last Line: On shafts of glory to the ecstasies they know. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TRENCH DUTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake Last Line: Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TRENCH INCIDENT, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: We waited, as the thundering curtain swept Last Line: Before he entered like a wondering child %the heritage of kings Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TROOPSHIP IN THE TROPICS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five thousand souls are here, and all are bounded Last Line: Time hardens. But the ruthless now grows kind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War TRUE BEAUTITUDE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say, when the great prompter's hand shall ring Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TURKISH TRENCH DOG, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Night held me as I crawled and scrambled near Last Line: And sniffing at my prostrate form unnerved %he licked my face! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soldiers' Writings; World War I TWELVE MONTHS AFTER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hullo! Here's my platoon, the lot I had last year Last Line: That's where they are to-day, knocked over to a man. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trudging by corbie ridge one winter's night Last Line: Who came to fight in france and got their fill.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TWO LEGENDS: FOR GREECE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the raving tusked boar Last Line: And lead him back to life again? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TWO TRENCH POEMS: 1 THE STORM NIGHT, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Peal after peal of splitting thunder rolls Last Line: Shell-fodder yea - but spare our human souls %from fury-shaken skies! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TWO TRENCH POEMS: 2 RESURRECTION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Five million men are dead. How can the worth Last Line: Even the poppy on the parapet %shall blossom as before when summer blows again Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I UNFORTUNATE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap Last Line: Kinder than god. But, heart, she will not care. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything has lasted till today Last Line: Velasquez, close those doglike dolorous eyes Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings VALEDICTION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the trembling blue the golden porpoise plunged Last Line: Or you for whom my heart once paid too dear Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings VICTORY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the ways of heaven were desolate Last Line: Thundered the black battalions of the gods. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings VILLAGE FUNERAL: MAHARASHTRA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wasted sleepy corpse Last Line: One birth and another birth? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings VILLON, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They threw me from the gates: my matted hair Last Line: He hath put by as though they had not been. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Villon, Francois (1431-1463) W' BEACH, SELS., by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The isle of imbros, set in turquoise blue Last Line: Chanting wild songs of how eternal fate %withstood that fierce invasion long ago Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); Soldiers' Writings; World War I WAGNER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creeps in half wanton, half asleep Last Line: His pendulous stomach hangs a-shaking. Subject(s): Composers; Soldiers' Writings; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) WAIKIKI, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree Last Line: Waikiki, 1913 Subject(s): Hawaii; Soldiers' Writings WAR STORY FOR PAUL, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell it for you Last Line: Naked in the stream toward me Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR WEDDING, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vigil: he lies awake in the barrack room, fearful she will not come Last Line: Their names are scrawled in blood along the wall Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WATER MUSIC, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the heart of the lake Last Line: Of the heart and its ache Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WAY BACK, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six days and two thousand miles Last Line: To be joined to you again Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WAYS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had been easier, not loving Last Line: Lovers go but hardly, all alone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WEDDED (1), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They leave their love-lorn haunts Last Line: Dead, strayed, to love-strange lover. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings WELSH NIGHT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fine flame of silver birches flickers Last Line: It wears the darkness like a shroud or shawl Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Discoloured lights slant from the high rose window Last Line: To know if that which is be good or ill Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WHEN THE WAR'S AT AN END, by ERIC POWELL DAWSON Poem Text First Line: At length when the war's at an end Last Line: How to lay our lives at love's feet. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War WILLIE, DANCING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we moved south Last Line: In trails of smoke above my head Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WIND IN THE BEECHWOOD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glorying forest shakes and swings with glancing Last Line: Moves with the chant and whisper of the glade. Subject(s): Forests; Soldiers' Writings; Wind; Woods WIRERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass it along, the wiring party's going out Last Line: But we can say the front-line wire's been safely mended. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War WISDOM, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wisdom tells me that the world's a speck Last Line: Alone with upward song, alone with light!' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WONDERMENT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then a wind blew Last Line: To light the ways they went. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WOOD SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pine trees cast their needles softly Last Line: And your body the white shew-bread Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings YOUNG HEBREW SPEAKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday as I lay nigh dead with toil Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings YOUTH, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young apollo, golden-haired Last Line: For the long littleness of life. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Youth |
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