Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREY KNITTING, by AMELIA BEERS WARNOCK GARVIN First Line: Something sings gently through the din of battle Last Line: As they fall fast asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Katherine Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
SOMETHING sings gently through the din of battle, Something spreads very softly rim on rim, And every soldier hears, at times, a murmur Tender, incessant,dim. A tiny click of little wooden needles, Elfin amid the gianthood of war; Whispers of women, tireless and patient, Who weave the web afar. Whispers of women, tireless and patient, "This is our heart's love," it would seem to say, "Wrought with the ancient tools of our vocation, Weave we the web of love from day to day." And so each soldier, laughing, fighting,dying Under the alien skies, in his great hour, May listen, in death's prescience all-enfolding, And hear a fairy sound bloom like a flower I like to think that soldiers, gaily dying For the white Christ on fields with shame sown deep, May hear the tender song of women's needles, As they fall fast asleep. | 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 NORTHERN GRAVEYARDS by AMELIA BEERS WARNOCK GARVIN |
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