Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN A TIME OF WAR: 2. THE WOUNDED, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: Cancelled the fair-planned life Last Line: Who grasp the incalculable, being dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
CANCELLED the fair-planned life Brooded on, talked over with the wife; The visionary quiet home Of expectation; The task that, thought of, gave elation! Vanished, like flashing foam, All, all that set a-dance the inner sea! Hopes every man now halt, or maimed, or blind, Took out with him to face the enemy, Comes back without! Yea, now usurps his mind A crestless, colourless monotony Of mere dwarf ripples that through years to come Alone shall differentiate His will, so straitly limited, From those, quite still, perhaps more fortunate, Who grasp the incalculable, being dead. | 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 BEAUTIFUL MEALS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE |
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