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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GERVAIS (KILLED AT THE DARDANELLES), by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON First Line: Bees hummed and rooks called hoarsely outside Last Line: That frowns with dying wonder up to hissarlik's sky! Subject(s): Women And War; World War I - Casualties | |||
BEES hummed and rooks called hoarsely outside the quiet room Where by an open window Gervais, the restless boy, Fretting the while for cricket, read of Patroclos' doom And flower of youth a-dying by far-off windy Troy. Do the old tales, half-remembered, come back to haunt him now Who leaving his glad school-days and putting boy- hood by Joined England's bitter Iliad? Greek beauty on the brow That frowns with dying wonder up to Hissarlik's sky! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MORNING PAPER by KATHARINE LEE BATES FOR THE FALLEN (SEPTEMBER 1914) by LAURENCE BINYON TRAFALGAR SQUARE by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES 1914: 3. THE DEAD by RUPERT BROOKE 1914: 4. THE DEAD by RUPERT BROOKE BETWEEN THE LINES by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON RUPERT BROOKE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON THE CAMPFIRE by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON |
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