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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ARMS!, by ANONYMOUS First Line: To arms! To arms! The heroes cry Last Line: "were there no honour, there would be no love" Subject(s): Arms & Armor;fights;heroism;soldiers; Heroes;heroines | |||
TO arms! to arms! the heroes cry, A glorious death, or victory. Beauty and love, although combined, And each so powerful alone, Cannot prevail against a mind Bound up in resolution. Tears their weak influence vainly prove, Nothing the daring breast can move Honour is blind, and deaf, even deaf to Love. The field! the field! where valour bleeds Spurned into dust by barbed steeds, Instead of wanton beds of down Is now the scene where they must try, To overthrow, or be o'erthrown; Bravely to overcome, or die. Honour in her interest sits above What beauty, prayers, or tears can move: Were there no honour, there would be no love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON NOTES FOR AN ELEGY by WILLIAM MEREDITH THE EROTICS OF HISTORY by EAVAN BOLAND A SONG FOR HEROES by EDWIN MARKHAM AFTER THE BROKEN ARM by RON PADGETT PRELUDE; FOR GEOFFREY GORER by EDITH SITWELL EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN A TIME OF WAR by WALLACE STEVENS TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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