Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WAR, by CARL N. LISCHKA First Line: As a hurricane bellowing thunder Last Line: For the dawn of thy smileand peace! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); Dead, The | ||||||||
AS a hurricane bellowing thunder And snorting fire that kills, As host of demons careering Madly wherever it wills; So War, a Moloch monster, Sweeps over hill and dale And mark how death and ruin Are left in his dreadful trail. There stately cities were standing And peaceful hamlets lay; Now graveyard stillnesses hover, For War has passed that way. The cities are roofless and empty, The grass grows wild on the street; The evening bell in the valley Hangs dead o'er the trampled wheat. The sheep have fled from the hillside, No lonely shepherd sings, The very birds in the woodlands Have ceased their carolings. Hear, God, the maimed men moaning, See the hearts that cannot sleep, The hearts of daughters mourning, Of mothers and wives who weep! Be gracious, oh Father of mercy, Bid Thy scourges of sin to cease! Our chastened souls are yearning For the dawn of Thy smileand Peace! | 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 WINDFLOWER LEAF by CARL SANDBURG |
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