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• Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
  The darkness crumbles away
  It is the same old druid Time as ever,
  suggested by rufina caraid
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
  I know that I shall meet my fate
  Somewhere among the clouds above;
  suggested by rufina caraid
• The Target by Ivor Gurney
  I shot him, and it had to be
  One of us "Twas him or me.
  suggested by rufina caraid
• The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
  'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said,
  And folded up the letter that she'd read.
  suggested by rufina caraid
• The Falling Leaves by Margaret Postgate Cole
  Today, as I rode by,
  I saw the brown leaves dropping from their tree
  suggested by rufina caraid
• The Great War by Vernon Scannell
  Whenever war is spoken of
  I find
  suggested by rufina caraid
• Mirror by Sylvia Plath
  I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
  Whatever I see I swallow immediately
  suggested by Noxie
• The Mouth-Organ by Cicely Fox Smith
  Oh, there ain't no band to cheer us up, there ain't no 'Ighland pipers
  To keep our warlike ardure warm round New Chapelle an' Wipers
  suggested by Charley Noble
• Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
  Was Arnold a time traveler who knew of the great wars to come?

  The sea is calm to-night.
  The tide is full, the moon lies fair
  suggested by Charley Noble
• The Three Concerned by Leon Gellert
  He lies forgotten 'neath the watching skies,
  the blood upon his bayonet scarlet bright;
  suggested by rufina caraid
• Smells by Christopher Morley
  WHY is it that the poet tells
  So little of the sense of smell?
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
• Autumn by Mary Webb
  When autumn winds are on the hill
  And darkly rides the wasting moon,
  suggested by rufina caraid
• Reality by Rabia al Basri
  In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
  Speech is born out of longing,
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
• Where The Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore
  Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
  Where knowledge is free
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
• Doha 3 by Tulsidas
  "Bina tej ke purush ki avshi avagya hoy|
  Aagi bujhe jyo raakh ki aap chuvay sab koy||"
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
• Perhaps (To R.A.L.) by Vera Brittain
  Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
• Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World by William Brighty Rands
  Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
  With the wonderful water round you curled,
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
• Tableau by Countee Cullen
  Locked arm in arm they cross the way
  The black boy and the white,
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
• The Glass Of Beer by James Stephens
  The lanky hank of a she in the inn over thereNearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer:
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
• Is My Lover On The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter
  Is my lover on the sea 
  Sailing east or sailing west, 
  suggested by I-Like-Rhymes

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