Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by ADA JACKSON First Line: In labour when / the raid began Last Line: Her soul instead. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Birth; Death; War; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The | ||||||||
In labour when the raid began, she could not run as others ran. Now here shall be no infant's cry, no navel string to cut and tie, she beingby a bomb well sped delivered of her soul instead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND |
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