Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WAR'S PEOPLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the tender amaranthine domes Last Line: Strange stars, and dream-like sounds, changed speech and law are ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
THROUGH the tender amaranthine domes Of angel-evenings echoing summer song, Through the black rock-tombs Of winter, and where autumn floods prolong The midnight roar and tumbling thunder, Through spring's daisy-peeping wonder, Round and beyond and over and under, I see our homes. Bloom, healing rosiness and wild-wine flowers, Or lift a vain wing in the mire, dropt leaf; Storm-spirit, coil your lightnings round mad towers; Go forth, you marching Seasons, horsemen Hours; Blow silver triumphs, Joy, and knell, grey Grief. These after-pieces will not now dispel The scene and action that was learned in hell. These charming veils a thought has strength to waft With one quick thrill aloft; and then we view Seasons and hours we better knew, Desperate budding of untimely green, Skies and soft cloud-land savagely serene, Steel or mere sleet that beat past-caring bones, Night-tempest not so loud as those long moans From low-gorged lairs, which outshine Zion's towers, Weak rags of walls, the forts of godlike powers. We went, returned, But came with that far country learned; Strange stars, and dream-like sounds, changed speech and law are ours. | 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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