Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN A TIME OF WAR: 2. THE WOUNDED, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE



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IN A TIME OF WAR: 2. THE WOUNDED, by                     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.





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