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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COWARDS OF THE AIR, by ARDEN MURDOCK ROCKWOOD Poet's Biography First Line: Have we no laws of chivalry today? Last Line: And show them for the cowards that they are! | |||
Have we no laws of chivalry today? Do high-powered weapons give a hoodlum rule? Has justice lost its power to end the fray? Must we give up our kingdom to a fool? The small boy scorns the bully who'll assail A smaller and a weaker one than he. The women and the children in a gale Are first to be delivered from the sea. But to the bullies of the air it's sport To see their bombs destroy a braver foe, Because his arms are of a cruder sort. They laugh at women and childen dead below. Give them the ancient weapons they debar, And show them for the cowards that they are! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA AND MUDJEKEEWIS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE LABORS OF HERCULES by MARIANNE MOORE CALIBAN [ON THE ISLAND], FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE TWO ANGELS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER CHORUS OF A SONG THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY ALBERT CHEVALIER by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM HO FOR NOA NOA by BERTON BRALEY |
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