Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NAMELESS MEN, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poet's Biography First Line: Around me when I wake or sleep Last Line: The men who watch and die for me. Subject(s): Death; Redemption; Soldiers; War; Dead, The | ||||||||
Around me when I wake or sleep, Men strange to me their vigils keep; And some were boys but yesterday Upon the village green at play. Their faces I shall never know; Like sentinels they come and go. In grateful love I bend the knee For nameless men who die for me. There is in earth or heaven no room Where I may flee this dreadful doom. Forever it is understood I am a man redeemed by blood. I must walk softly all my days Down my redeemed and solemn ways. Christ, take the men I bring to Thee, The men who watch and die for me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND AVE CRUX, SPES UNICA! by EDWARD SHILLITO |
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