Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A HARROW GRAVE IN FLANDERS, by ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON CREWE-MILNES First Line: Here in the marshland, past the battered bridge Last Line: We ask; and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Crewe, 1st Marquess Of; Houghton, Baron Variant Title(s): Harrow And Flanders Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Graves; World War I - Casualties; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
HERE in the marshland, past the battered bridge, One of a hundred grains untimely sown, Here, with his comrades of the hard-won ridge, He rests, unknown. His horoscope had seemed so plainly drawn, School triumphs, earned apace in work and play; Friendships at will; then love's delightful dawn And mellowing day; Home fostering hope; some service to the State; Benignant age; then the long tryst to keep Where in the yew-tree shadow congregate His fathers sleep. Was here the one thing needful to distil From life's alembic, through this holier fate, The man's essential soul, the hero will? We ask; and wait. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 3 by EZRA POUND THE SELF-SEEKER by ROBERT FROST EMMELINE GRANGERFORD'S 'ODE TO STEPHEN DOLWING BOTS, DEC'D' by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS |
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