A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- Now in thy splendour go before us.
Spirit of England, ardent-eyed,by Robert Laurence Binyon 35 lines - There were thirty million English who talked of England's might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.by Rudyard Kipling 43 lines, 2 comments - Sons of the mountains of Scotland,
Welshmen of coomb and defile,by Dame Mary Gilmore DBE 34 lines - The tired air groans as the heavies swing over, the river-hollows boom;
The shell-fountains leap from the swamps, and with wildfire and fumeby Edmund Blunden 8 lines - All armies are the same
Publicity is fameby Ernest Hemingway 6 lines - 'And all her silken flanks with garlands drest' -
But we are coming to the sacrifice.by Edmund Blunden 15 lines, 1 comment - Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,by John Donne 6 lines, 7 comments - Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm,
Great Gun towering towards Heaven, about to curse;by Wilfred Owen 15 lines, 1 comment - They sent him back to her. The letter came
Saying… And she could have him. And beforeby Robert Frost 23 lines - I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deepby Edward Thomas 33 lines, 2 comments - When my poor body died,--Alas!
I watched it topple down a hillby Leon Gellert 10 lines, 2 comments - 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 - Now that you too must shortly go the way
Which in these bloodshot years uncounted menby Eleanor Farjeon 14 lines, 1 comment - In prison cell I sadly sit,
A d_d crest-fallen chappie!by Harry Breaker Morant 33 lines, 3 comments - O Lord, our father,
Our young patriots, idols of our hearts,by Mark Twain 37 lines, 2 comments - South of the Line, inland from far Durban,
A mouldering soldier lies--your countryman.by Thomas Hardy 12 lines - Living in a wide landscape are the flowers -
Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying -by Keith Douglas 16 lines, 2 comments - You told me, in your drunken-boasting mood,
How once you butchered prisoners. That was good!by Siegfried Sassoon 12 lines, 2 comments - 'Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers
All the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried men's souby Oliver Wendell Holmes Snr 183 lines - What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?
Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack floor.by Anonymous British 92 lines, 8 comments - The noble horse with courage in his eye,
clean in the bone, looks up at a shellburst:by Keith Douglas 20 lines - 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 - Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
On this bleak hut, and solitude, and meby Edward Thomas 17 lines, 1 comment - L'enfant avait reçu deux balles dans la tête.
Le logis était propre, humble, paisible, honnête ;by Victor Marie Hugo 128 lines
