Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WARRIOR MOTHERS, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER First Line: You wait as I for the fatal word Last Line: Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? Subject(s): Fear; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War | ||||||||
You wait as I for the fatal word From the bare steel line where the death-ghoul lures. Your pulse bounds up by the same thought stirred; Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? For you and I in our thoughts are brave While pride beguiles and loud boast assures; But blank fear skulks by the sky-topped grave. Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? Oh, the blood-laugh rings on the wind tonight As blind time revels and rage endures. You're knitting too by the pale lamp light. Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? Your soul hates me as my soul hates you, For wrath-lit passion all else obscures, And our hearts death-gripped fight the grim fight through Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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