Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 7, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poet's Biography First Line: Whence not unmoved I see the nations form Last Line: The hosts of thirty centuries have died. Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
Whence not unmoved I see the nations form From Dover to the fountains of the Rhine, A hundred leagues, the scarlet battle-line, And by the Vistula great armies swarm, A vaster flood; rather my breast grows warm, Seeing all peoples of the earth combine Under one standard, with one countersign, Grown brothers in the universal storm. And never through the wide world yet there rang A mightier summons! O Thou who from the side Of Athens and the loins of Caesar sprang, Strike, Europe, with half the coming world allied, For those ideals for which, since Homer sang, The hosts of thirty centuries have died. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN AT GIBRALTAR by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY |
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