A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- In sodden trenches I have heard men speak,
Though numb and wretched, wise and witty things;by John Edgell Rickwood 14 lines - The Introit
Let from its dream the soul awaken,by Jorge Manrique 512 lines - Wizard. -- Lochiel! Lochiel, beware of the day
When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!by Thomas Campbell 87 lines - There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night —
Ten to make and the match to win —by Sir Henry Newbolt 25 lines, 2 comments - From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.by Randall Jarrell 4 lines, 1 comment - In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal,
There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding rings of steel;by Henry Lawson 49 lines - My brother Andy said, that for a soldier he would go,
So great excitement came upon the house of McElroe.by William Percy French 37 lines - MacLeod's wizard flag from the grey castle sallies,
The rowers are seated, unmoor'd are the galleys;by Sir Walter Scott 24 lines, 3 comments - Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate youby Gregory Corso 189 lines - Snow is a strange white word.
No ice or frostby Isaac Rosenberg 20 lines - 'MY life is done, yet all remains,
The breath has gone, the image not,by Edwin Muir 32 lines - I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,by Alan Seeger 23 lines, 1 comment - There was a man, - don't mind his name,
Whom Fear had dogged by night and day.by Winifred Mary Letts 31 lines - Watch the white dawn gleam,
To the thunder of hidden guns.by Leslie Coulson 36 lines, 3 comments - Let us remember Spring will come again
To the scorched, blackened woods, where the wounded treesby Charlotte Mary Mew 10 lines, 2 comments - Can I explain this to you? Your eyes
are entrances the mouths of cavesby Keith Douglas 28 lines - Dolls' faces are rosier but these were children
their eyes not glass but gleaming gristleby Sir Herbert Read 18 lines - In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire,
Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned!by Isaac Rosenberg 29 lines - Endless lanes sunken in the clay,
Bays, and traverses, fringed with wasted herbage,by Frederic Manning 39 lines - There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home,
For he hears a voice in the future call, and he trains forby Henry Lawson 73 lines - I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."by Rudyard Kipling 43 lines, 4 comments - God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men,
Whose pious poetry blossoms on your gravesby Arthur Graeme West 53 lines - The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,by Dylan Thomas 18 lines, 1 comment - The Afghans are far superior to the Mughals at the sword,
Were but the Afghans, in intellect, a little discreet,by Khoshal Khan Khattak 14 lines - Here war is simple like a monument:
A telephone is speaking to a man;by W H Auden 16 lines, 1 comment - Our little hour,—how swift it flies
When poppies flare and lilies smile;by Leslie Coulson 35 lines, 2 comments - Actors waiting in the wings of Europe
we already watch the lights on the stageby Keith Douglas 18 lines - Does it matter?-losing your legs?
For people will always be kind,by Siegfried Sassoon 14 lines - They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,by Cecil Day Lewis 8 lines
