Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VICTORY AND FAILURE, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the day of victory Last Line: To die along with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Failure; Honor; Soldiers; Victory; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War | ||||||||
Not for the day of victory I mourn I was not there, The hard fierce rush of slaying men, The hands up in the air, But for the torn ranks struggling on The old brave hopeless way, The broken charge, the slow retreat, And I so far away. And listening to the tale of Roeux I think I see again The steady grim despairing ranks, The courage and the pain, The bodies of my friends that lie Unburied in the dew Oh! friends of mine, and I not there To die along with you! | 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 BEAUMONT-HAMEL; CAPTURED, NOVEMBER 16, 1916 by ALAN MACKINTOSH |
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