Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUSEWIFE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She must go back, she said Last Line: Into the night, shells falling thick and fast. Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
She must go back, she said, Because she'd not had time to make the bed. We'd hurried her away So roughly ... and, for all that we could say, She broke from us, and passed Into the night, shells falling thick and fast. | 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 |
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