A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- The General came in a new tin hat
To the shell-torn front where the war was at;by Arthur Guiterman 52 lines, 6 comments - Earning high wages?
Yus, Five quid a week.by Madeline Ida Bedford 43 lines, 1 comment - Had he never been born he was mine:
Since he was born he never was mine:by Dame Mary Gilmore DBE 21 lines, 1 comment - He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,by Wilfred Owen 51 lines, 3 comments - Argonne Forest, at midnight,
A sapper stands on guard.by Anonymous European 71 lines - I knew a man, he was my chum,
but he grew blacker every day,by John Edgell Rickwood 24 lines - I watched the boys of England where they went
Through mud and water to do appointed things.by Ivor Gurney 14 lines - Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming,
Snatched from the altars of insolent foes,by Oliver Wendell Holmes Snr 20 lines - Fair Brussels, thou art far behind,
Though, lingering on the morning wind,by Sir Walter Scott 576 lines - A soldier passed me in the freshly fallen snow,
His footsteps muffled, his face unearthly grey:by Sir Herbert Read 35 lines - A small green valley where a slow stream flows
And leaves long strands of silver on the brightby Arthur Rimbaud 38 lines - We who are left, how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rainby Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 10 lines - Indifferent, flippant, earnest, but all bored,
The doctors sit in the glare of electric lightby Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 14 lines - The past, a glacier, gripped the mountain wall,
And time was inches, dark was all.by Rupert John Cornford 15 lines - I found the letter in a cardboard box,
Unfamous history. I read the words.by Clifford Dyment 14 lines - When men are old, and their friends die,
They are not so sad,by Margaret Postgate Cole 12 lines - The stage was set, the house was packed,
The famous troop began;by Edmund Blunden 28 lines - There was a sound of revelry by night,
And Belgium's capital had gathered thenby Lord George Gordon Byron 45 lines, 1 comment - This is no case of petty right or wrong
That politicians or philosophersby Edward Thomas 26 lines - It seemed that out of the battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scoopedby Wilfred Owen 43 lines, 6 comments - For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,by Rudyard Kipling 44 lines, 3 comments - Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,by Rupert Brooke 13 lines, 2 comments - Now in thy splendour go before us.
Spirit of England, ardent-eyed,by Robert Laurence Binyon 35 lines - What is it you remember? - the summer mornings
Down by the river at Richmond with a girl,by George Barker 15 lines, 3 comments
