A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- Three weeks gone and the combatants gone
returning over the nightmare groundby Keith Douglas 24 lines, 2 comments - We ate our breakfast lying on our backs,
Because the shells were screeching overhead.by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 9 lines, 3 comments - 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
- 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 - Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delightby Siegfried Sassoon 11 lines, 1 comment - I like to think of you as brown and tall,
As strong and living as you used to be,by Marian Allen 27 lines, 1 comment - "DEAR Charlie," breathed a soldier,
"O comrade true and tried,by Horatio Alger Jr 88 lines, 2 comments - Let us remember Spring will come again
To the scorched, blackened woods, where the wounded treesby Charlotte Mary Mew 10 lines, 2 comments - The plunging limbers over the shattered track
Racketed with their rusty freight,by Isaac Rosenberg 86 lines, 1 comment - Fair Brussels, thou art far behind,
Though, lingering on the morning wind,by Sir Walter Scott 576 lines - Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—by Carl Sandburg 10 lines, 2 comments - Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep.by Anonymous Americas 15 lines, 3 comments - When Gilbert’s birthday came last spring,
Oh! How our brains were rackedby Jessie Pope 24 lines, 1 comment - ‘Good-morning; good-morning!’ the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.by Siegfried Sassoon 7 lines, 2 comments - The General came in a new tin hat
To the shell-torn front where the war was at;by Arthur Guiterman 52 lines, 8 comments - The guns were silent, and the silent hills
had bowed their grasses to a gentle breezeby Leon Gellert 19 lines, 7 comments - Never since English ships went out
To singe the beard of Spain,by Alfred Noyes 16 lines, 4 comments - Argonne Forest, at midnight,
A sapper stands on guard.by Anonymous European 71 lines, 1 comment - Early morning over Rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning,
And the laughter of adventure and the steepness of the stair,by May Wedderburn Cannan 63 lines, 1 comment - Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate youby Gregory Corso 189 lines, 65,535 comments - Now that you too must shortly go the way
Which in these bloodshot years uncounted menby Eleanor Farjeon 14 lines, 3 comments - 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 - SOLDIER lad, on the sodden ground,
Sailor lad on the seas,by Jessie Pope 39 lines - Under the parabola of a ball,
a child turning into a man,by Keith Douglas 24 lines, 2 comments - 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, 1 comment
