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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOMING BRAVES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's music in the measured tread Last Line: Stand in the pathway of their dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): World War I; First World War | |||
There's music in the measured tread Of those returning from the dead Like scattered flowers from a plain So lately crimson, with the slain. No more the sound of shuffled feet Shall mark the poltroon on the street, Nor shifting, sodden, downcast eye Reveal the man afraid to die. They shall have paid full, utterly The price of peace across the sea, When, with uplifted glance, they come To claim a kindly welcome home. Nor shall the old-time daedal sting Of prejudice, their manhood wing, Nor heights, nor depths, nor living streams Stand in the pathway of their dreams! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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