Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORIES: 2, by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON First Line: Whenever I hear a bluebird sing Last Line: Those glorious happy other days? Subject(s): Memory; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
Whenever I hear a bluebird sing On a wall where trailing ivies cling, Whenever I see a grey-blue sky Shadowed with cloudlets scurrying by, . . . I wonder if, in the shrapnel's shriek, When the booming guns to the trenches speak, If you too see in a golden haze Those glorious happy other days? | 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 MEMORIES: 1 by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON |
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