A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- The schools marched in procession in happiness and pride,
The city bands before them, the soldiers marched beside;by Henry Lawson 25 lines - There's a soul in the Eternal,
Standing stiff before the King.by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy 8 lines - Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue,
America's crusading host of warriors bold and true;by Henry Van Dyke 24 lines - So be it, God, I take what Thou dost give,
And gladly give what Thou dost take away.by Leslie Coulson 14 lines - From Australia.
OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!by Henry Lawson 113 lines, 2 comments - Two armies stand enrolled beneath
The banner with the starry wreath;by Henry Timrod 0 lines - Men went happily to death
But they were not the menby Ernest Hemingway 7 lines, 2 comments - Ay, it is fitting on this holiday,
Commemorative of our soldier dead,by Alan Seeger 101 lines, 1 comment - The House is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin
And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranksby Siegfried Sassoon 8 lines - Dark clouds are smouldering into red
While down the craters morning burns.by Siegfried Sassoon 16 lines - It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,by Robert Southey 75 lines, 1 comment - When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,by Walt Whitman 175 lines, 1 comment - The golden lemon is not made
but grows on a green tree:by Sir Herbert Read 12 lines - There's a waterfall I'm leaving
Running down the rocks in foam,by Nowell Oxland 71 lines - You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,
And no man claimed the conquest of your land.by Charles Hamilton Sorley 14 lines - O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear
Above their heads the legions pressing on:by John McCrae 16 lines - When the last long trek is over,
And the last long trench filled in,by Alec de Candole 16 lines, 3 comments - You were askin' 'ow we sticks it,
Sticks this blarsted rain and mud,by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy 40 lines, 1 comment - While great events were on the gale,
And each hour brought a varying tale,by Sir Walter Scott 1236 lines - Lend me your arm
To replace my legby Benjamin Peret 10 lines, 3 comments - YOU can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze,
Your curios and tapestries so fine,by J Milton Hayes 79 lines - Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,
On the wood and on the plain!by Sydney Thompson Dobell 247 lines - Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day
Gave his broad lawns until the set of sunby Alfred Lord Tennyson 246 lines, 1 comment - [I saw his round mouth's crimson deepen as it fell],
Like a Sun, in his last deep hour;by Wilfred Owen 7 lines - My arms have mutinied against me -- brutes!
My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,by Wilfred Owen 38 lines - Do you think, you slaves of a thousand years to poverty, wealth and pride,
You can crush the spirit that has been free in a land that's new and wide?by Henry Lawson 8 lines, 1 comment - At the bottom of your thoughts, this is the night you've chosen,
Prince, you must now make an end of things - the night is frozenby Victor Marie Hugo 16 lines - All sounds have been as music to my listening:
Pacific lamentations of slow bells,by Wilfred Owen 25 lines, 1 comment - We are here in a wood of little beeches:
And the leaves are like black laceby Frederic Manning 24 lines
