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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
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!
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