Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ILLUSIONS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trenches in the moonlight, in the lulling moonlight Last Line: For the moon's interpretation. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
TRENCHES in the moonlight, in the lulling moonlight Have had their loveliness; when dancing dewy grasses Caressed us passing along their earthy lanes; When the crucifix hanging over was strangely illumined, And one imagined music, one even heard the brave bird In the sighing orchards flute above the weedy well. There are such moments; forgive me that I note them, Nor gloze that there comes soon the nemesis of beauty, In the fluttering relics that at first glimmer wakened Terror -- the no-man's ditch suddenly forking: There, the enemy's best with bombs and brains and courage! -- Softly, swiftly, at once be animal and angel -- But O no, no, they're Death's malkins dangling in the wire For the moon's interpretation. | 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 ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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