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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PERISCOPES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: As the up-to-date destroyer Last Line: Let us smash our periscopes! Subject(s): Submarines; Submarine Warfare; U-boats | |||
As the up-to-date destroyer, Underneath the waters green, Travels swiftly through the ocean In his crafty submarine, Up he thrusts a curious funnel, Lest in nether gloom he grope, And surveys the watery surface Through a safe-eyed periscope. Thus we modern men, suspicious, Through the Sea of Living glide, Far beneath the surface waters And the frankly swinging tide, And, if we would see our brothers And the world's great brother-hope, We can only gaze upon them Through a little periscope. Let us back to better living, Surface living, friendly, wise, On the trustful, open billows, Underneath the open skies! Let us, hasting to the future As its glorious morning opes, Sail in brotherhood together: Let us smash our periscopes! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER by WILLIAM MEREDITH THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915] by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER THE WHITE SHIPS AND THE RED by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER MARE LIBERUM by HENRY VAN DYKE AIR: 'CAPTAIN JINKS' by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS SUBMARINE BADINAGE by BERTON BRALEY THE FISH-OF-WAR by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS THE LAST DAY: A SUBMARINE JAUNT by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS A BELATED MEMORIAL by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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