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Martin Armstrong

I lived from 1882-1974. I was from England, and am in the English category.

He was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1882 and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College Cambridge. His first publication of poems appeared in 1912. He served during 1914-1915 in the 2nd Artist Rifles, then commissioned into the 8th Middlesex Regiment from 1915 through to the end of the war, demobbed in 1919. He served in France on the Western Front.
His book. Buzzards and other Poems was published in 1921.
Martin Armstrong died in 1974.

My poetry

  • Miss Thompson Goes Shopping
    Miss Thompson at Home
    In her lone cottage on the downs,
    284 lines, 2 comments
  • Before Battle
    Here on the blind verge of infinity
    We live ard move like moles. Our crumbling trench
    113 lines
  • Honey Harvest
        Late in March, when the days are growing longer
        And sight of early green
    81 lines
  • The Buzzards
        When evening came and the warm glow grew deeper
        And every tree that bordered the green meadows
    31 lines
  • In Lamplight
    Now that the chill October day is declining,
    Pull the blinds, draw each voluminous curtain
    19 lines
  • Going up the Line
    O consolation and refreshment breathed
    From the young Spring with apple-blossom wreathed
    26 lines

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