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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUGUST 1914, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What in our lives is burnt
Last Line: A fair mouth's broken tooth.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War
First Line: What in our lives is burnt
Last Line: A fair mouth's broken tooth.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War
What in our lives is burnt
In the fire of this?
The heart's dear granary?
The much we shall miss?
Three lives hath one life --
Iron, honey, gold.
The gold, the honey gone --
Left is the hard and cold.
Iron are our lives
Molten right through our youth.
A burnt space through ripe fields,
A fair mouth's broken tooth.
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