A Book of Verse of the Great WarWilliam Reginald Wheeler Yale University Press, 1917 - 184 pagine |
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ALFRED NOYES bade me fight battle beat Belgian bell Black blind blood blow Boom breast breath brothers Christmas CLINTON SCOLLARD cried DANA BURNET dark dawn dead death dreams drum dying earth EMILE CAMMAERTS EMILE CAMMAERTS Translated England eyes feet fields fight had told fire flag flame Flanders flowers FORGE OF GOD France freedom-this I know GILBERT FRANKAU glory gray guns hands heart heaven hill JULIAN GRENFELL King land laughter LAURENCE BINYON lift light look Lord mist moan moon Mother neath night o'er peace PERCY MACKAYE pipes Poems pray prayer R. E. Vernède rain red country rendezvous with Death rhythm Ring roar RUPERT BROOKE seas shells sing skies sleep smoke song soul Spring stars storm Strong sweet sword tears thee There's things thou thunder to-night trenches trumpet vision VOICE W. M. LETTS WILFRID WILSON GIBSON wind wings yellow and red
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Pagina 13 - If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam. A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
Pagina 11 - Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth^ and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love...
Pagina 81 - ... Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, To hazards whence no tears can win us ; What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away...
Pagina 80 - Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk, With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though dynasties pass. Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by; War's annals will cloud into night Ere their story die.
Pagina 11 - These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Pagina 67 - THE naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun's gaze glorying, And quivers in the sunny breeze; And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light, And a striving evermore for these; And he is dead who will not fight; And who dies fighting has increase.
Pagina 46 - I gave my life for freedom, this I know, For those who bade me fight had told me so.
Pagina 68 - Great rest, and fulness after dearth. All the bright company of Heaven Hold him in their high comradeship, The Dog-Star and the Sisters Seven, Orion's Belt and sworded hip. The woodland trees that stand together, They stand to him each one a friend; They gently speak in the windy weather; They guide to valley and ridge's end. The kestrel hovering by day, And the little owls that call by night, Bid him be swift and keen as they, As keen of ear, as swift of sight. The blackbird sings to him, "Brother,...
Pagina 140 - I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air — I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
Pagina 69 - In dreary, doubtful, waiting hours, Before the brazen frenzy starts, The horses show him nobler powers; O patient eyes, courageous hearts! And when the burning moment breaks, And all things -else are out of mind, And only...