Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WAR NOTES: 3. TWO PARADES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: The uniforms gleam bright, and as of yore Last Line: The bronzed and battered veterans limp by. Subject(s): Parades; Veterans; War | ||||||||
Civic Display The uniforms gleam bright, and as of yore Fifes lift the feet that step in time full gay: This soldiering looks handsome; hark, the roar That rends the very skies of spring to-day From mobile multitudes who line the way. Behold the grace and gallantry of war! The Return of the Veterans Beneath gray gloom they tramp along: their tread Lacks rhythm; faded, soiled, and torn their dress; They wot of storm and peril, wounds that bled, And pains beyond imagination's guess. The lookers-on, struck mute by tenderness, Hardly huzza: it is as if the dead Walked with the quick. Beneath a brooding sky The bronzed and battered veterans limp by. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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