A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- Who died on the wires, and hung
there, one of two --by Ivor Gurney 34 lines, 2 comments - Farewell, dear, young friends;
though parting is painful,by William Anderson Ellis 15 lines - So was their sanctuary violated,
So their fair college turned to hospital;by Alfred Lord Tennyson 351 lines, 3 comments - Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents in order
(Violet peaks uplifted through the crystal evening air?)by Rudyard Kipling 43 lines, 1 comment - Halted against the shade of a last hill,
They fed, and lying easy, were at easeby Wilfred Owen 51 lines, 8 comments - Ghosts crying down the vistas of the years,
Recalling wordsby Vera Brittain 21 lines - In Flanders’ Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,by John McCrae 17 lines, 10 comments - Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea,
Whose footsteps are not known,by Alfred Noyes 25 lines, 2 comments - Drummed their boots on the camion floor,
Hob-nailed boots on the camion floor.by Ernest Hemingway 16 lines, 5 comments - We came upon him sitting in the sun
Blinded by war, and left. And past the fenceby Margaret Postgate Cole 12 lines, 2 comments - These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth.by Rupert Brooke 14 lines, 2 comments - The darkness crumbles away
It is the same old druid Time as ever,by Isaac Rosenberg 26 lines, 1 comment - Oh, there were fifteen men in green,
Each with a tommy-gun,by David Campbell 55 lines, 2 comments - His wild heart beats with painful sobs,
His strin'd hands clench an ice-cold rifle,by Sir Herbert Read 12 lines - 'Four years,' some say consolingly. 'Oh well,
What's that ? You're young. And then it must have beenby Vera Brittain 14 lines - O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough -
Light in their loving as soldiers can be -by Thomas Hardy 47 lines - Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.by Wilfred Owen 25 lines, 2 comments - Sinhasan hil uthey raajvanshon ney bhrukuti tani thi,
budhey Bharat mein aayee phir se nayi jawani thi,by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan 343 lines, 1 comment - There’s a lonely stretch of hillocks:
There’s a beach asleep and drear:by Leon Gellert 12 lines, 2 comments - I dreamt last night Christ came to earth again
To bless His own. My soul from place to placeby Eva Dobell 14 lines, 1 comment - The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 48 lines, 7 comments - Remember me when I am dead
and simplify me when I'm dead.by Keith Douglas 36 lines, 4 comments - Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait with all you've got!by Konstantin Simonov 37 lines, 9 comments - Never until the mankind making
Bird beast and flowerby Dylan Thomas 26 lines, 1 comment - "DEAR Charlie," breathed a soldier,
"O comrade true and tried,by Horatio Alger Jr 88 lines, 2 comments - Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played,
The red crashing game of a fight?by Jessie Pope 16 lines, 7 comments
