A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- Softly and humbly to the Gulf of Arabs
The convoys of dead sailors come;by Kenneth Slessor 51 lines, 10 comments - Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played,
The red crashing game of a fight?by Jessie Pope 16 lines, 9 comments - Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,by Wilfred Owen 29 lines, 30 comments - If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign fieldby Rupert Brooke 14 lines, 14 comments - What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.by Wilfred Owen 13 lines, 26 comments - With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.by Robert Laurence Binyon 33 lines, 21 comments - Today, as I rode by,
I saw the brown leaves dropping from their treeby Margaret Postgate Cole 11 lines, 16 comments - 'There's the girl who clips your ticket for the train,
And the girl who speeds the lift from floor to floor,by Jessie Pope 20 lines, 10 comments - 'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said,
And folded up the letter that she'd read.by Siegfried Sassoon 19 lines, 15 comments - I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;by William Butler Yeats 15 lines, 16 comments - I shot him, and it had to be
One of us "Twas him or me.by Ivor Gurney 23 lines, 16 comments - Sinhasan hil uthey raajvanshon ney bhrukuti tani thi,
budhey Bharat mein aayee phir se nayi jawani thi,by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan 287 lines, 20 comments - Certain people would not clean their buttons,
Nor polish buckles after latest fashions,by Ivor Gurney 16 lines, 5 comments - So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.by Wilfred Owen 16 lines, 13 comments - Crippled for life at seventeen,
His great eyes seems to question why:by Eva Dobell 22 lines, 3 comments - We did not bury him deep enough; break up the monument,
Open the tomb, strip off the flags and the flowersby Douglas Alexander Stewart 14 lines, 65,535 comments - INFANTRY COLUMNS
We're foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin' over Africa —by Rudyard Kipling 40 lines, 8 comments - War's a joke for me and you,
While we know such dreams are true.by Wilfred Owen 20 lines, 3 comments - Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleepingby Rupert Brooke 14 lines, 2 comments - The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fairby Matthew Arnold 39 lines, 21 comments - Australia takes her pen in hand
To write a line to you,by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 68 lines, 8 comments - Army of Northern Virginia, army of legend,
Who were your captains that you could trust them so surely?by Stephen Vincent Benet 297 lines, 4 comments - Still falls the Rain—-
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss—-by Dame Edith Sitwell 43 lines, 3 comments - The darkness crumbles away
It is the same old druid Time as ever,by Isaac Rosenberg 25 lines, 3 comments - God lay dead in heaven;
Angels sang the hymn of the end;by Stephen Maria Crane 18 lines, 4 comments - Soldiers never do die well;
Crosses mark the places --by Ernest Hemingway 8 lines, 11 comments - 'Four years,' some say consolingly. 'Oh well,
What's that ? You're young. And then it must have beenby Vera Brittain 14 lines, 65,535 comments
