war

LOVERS MEETING from kendrive ^Pro 44 days old

[ ... ] the war in Iraq. "The Royal Air Force has enjoyed a good day's flying, with excellent weather over Iraq. The army has been continuing to ...

STAR WARS from kendrive ^Pro 116 days old

Randall Jarrell is primarily a war poet, so it comes as a pleasant surprise to read this poem about nature at night. However, the last four lines bring ...

THE FUTILITY OF WAR from kendrive ^Pro 119 days old

[ ... ] War II poetry in which he depicts the extreme fears and struggles of the soldiers who fought and died. In 1965 he became mentally ill, first ...

I SAT BESDE HER AND WONDERED from kendrive ^Pro 250 days old

THE CAMP-FOLLOWER We spoke, the camp-follower and I. About us was a cold, pungent odor -- Gun-powder, stale wine, wet earth, and the smell of thousands ...

FACES OF WAR from kendrive ^Pro 283 days old

SOLDIERS The smile of one face is like a fierce mermaid Floating dead in a little pale-brown pond. The lips of one are twisted To a hieroglyphic ...

HOME GUARD from kendrive ^Pro 367 days old

[ ... ] this war-mazed valley Dream of a day when at peace they may work and watch The small sufficient wonders of the countryside. Image or fact, we both ...

IT WAS ALL SO LONG AGO from kendrive ^Pro 390 days old

SOLDIER An ordinary country man called on to do exceptional things in a European war that was none of his business, but he went anyway and, in Holland ...

THERE'S A BREATHLESS HUSH IN THE CLOSE TONIGHT from kendrive ^Pro 503 days old

[ ... ] that war should be fought in the same spirit as school sports. The poem was well received both critically and publicly at the time, and his work ...

MY DAYS from kendrive ^Pro 535 days old

[ ... ] War? MY DAYS My days are but the tomb of buried hours; Which tombs are hidden in the piled years; But from the mounds there spring up many ...

THE POOLS OF HEBRON from kendrive ^Pro 539 days old

This is Rosenberg's final poem. He enclosed it in a letter to his friend and patron Edward Marsh and commented that he was fretting because he had ...