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 -
Who for his hours of life had chattered throughby Ivor Gurney 16 lines, 3 comments - Sinhasan hil uthey raajvanshon ney bhrukuti tani thi,
budhey Bharat mein aayee phir se nayi jawani thi,by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan 343 lines, 2 comments - Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyby Stephen Maria Crane 29 lines, 2 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 - 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, 2 comments - His wild heart beats with painful sobs,
His strain'd hands clench an ice-cold rifle,by Sir Herbert Read 15 lines - "What will you lack, sonny, what will you lack,
When the girls line up the streetby Harold Begbie 34 lines - Farewell, dear, young friends;
though parting is painful,by William Anderson Ellis 15 lines - Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents in order
(Violet peaks uplifted through the crystal evening air?)by Rudyard Kipling 43 lines, 2 comments - In Flanders’ Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,by John McCrae 17 lines, 10 comments - Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,by Alfred Lord Tennyson 59 lines, 12 comments - So was their sanctuary violated,
So their fair college turned to hospital;by Alfred Lord Tennyson 351 lines, 3 comments - The Seed-Merchant has lost his son,
His dear, his loved, his only one.by Agnes Grozier Herbertson 37 lines - Ainsi, toujours poussés vers de nouveaux rivages,
Dans la nuit éternelle emportés sans retour,by Alphonse Marie Lois de Lamartine 64 lines, 2 comments - THERE they go marching all in step so gay!
Smooth-cheeked and golden, food for shells and guns.by Katharine Tynan 19 lines, 1 comment - These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth.by Rupert Brooke 14 lines, 2 comments - Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait with all you've got!by Konstantin Simonov 37 lines, 9 comments - If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign fieldby May Herschel-Clarke 18 lines, 65,535 comments - The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 48 lines, 9 comments - Drummed their boots on the camion floor,
Hob-nailed boots on the camion floor.by Ernest Hemingway 16 lines, 7 comments - I dreamt last night Christ came to earth again
To bless His own. My soul from place to placeby Eva Dobell 14 lines, 2 comments - Shining pins that dart and click
In the fireside’s sheltered peaceby Jessie Pope 23 lines, 1 comment - Remember me when I am dead
and simplify me when I'm dead.by Keith Douglas 36 lines, 4 comments - Never until the mankind making
Bird beast and flowerby Dylan Thomas 26 lines, 1 comment - God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men,
Whose pious poetry blossoms on your gravesby Arthur Graeme West 53 lines
