A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- One minute we was laughin, me an' Ted,
The next, he lay beside me grinnin' - dead.by May Herschel-Clarke 2 lines - Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,by Henry Reed 34 lines, 3 comments - Three weeks gone and the combatants gone
returning over the nightmare groundby Keith Douglas 24 lines, 2 comments - Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,by Alfred Lord Tennyson 59 lines, 11 comments - In days of peace my fellow-men
Rightly regarded me as more likeby A.A. Milne 44 lines - The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The stars appeared as brokenby Khalil Gibran 12 lines, 3 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 - Morning, if this late withered light can claim
Some kindred with that merry flameby Edmund Blunden 37 lines, 1 comment - There are strange Hells within the minds War made
Not so often, not so humiliating afraidby Ivor Gurney 14 lines, 2 comments - Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us…
Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent…by Wilfred Owen 46 lines, 4 comments - Our Trojan world is polarised to mourn;
To dream and find a black spot on the sun,by Kenneth Allott 24 lines, 2 comments - Three hours ago he blundered up the trench,
Sliding and poising, groping with his boots;by Siegfried Sassoon 49 lines, 4 comments - I wandered up to Beaucourt; I took the river track
And saw the lines we lived in before the Boche went back;by A P Herbert 28 lines, 1 comment - Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep.by Anonymous Americas 15 lines, 3 comments - Tell the story to your sons
Of the gallant days of yoreby James Jeffrey Roche 88 lines, 1 comment - Who made the Law that men should die in shadows ?
Who spake the word that blood should splash in lanes ?by Leslie Coulson 23 lines, 2 comments - Never since English ships went out
To singe the beard of Spain,by Alfred Noyes 16 lines, 4 comments - You love us when we're heroes, home on leave,
Or wounded in a mentionable place.by Siegfried Sassoon 13 lines, 2 comments - If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign fieldby May Herschel-Clarke 18 lines - We planned to shake the world together, you and I
Being young, and very wise;by May Wedderburn Cannan 30 lines - The guns were silent, and the silent hills
had bowed their grasses to a gentle breezeby Leon Gellert 19 lines, 6 comments - Straw rustling everywhere.
The candle-stumps stand there staring solemnly.by Wilhelm Klemm 14 lines - Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delightby Siegfried Sassoon 11 lines, 1 comment - PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—by Carl Sandburg 10 lines, 2 comments - The plunging limbers over the shattered track
Racketed with their rusty freight,by Isaac Rosenberg 86 lines, 1 comment - We ate our breakfast lying on our backs,
Because the shells were screeching overhead.by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 9 lines, 3 comments
