A description that covers all avenues of conflict, from any era, any part of the World.
- 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 - They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,by Cecil Day Lewis 8 lines - Actors waiting in the wings of Europe
we already watch the lights on the stageby Keith Douglas 18 lines - After the ambulance that shakes
The urgent bell that comes and goesby Douglas Gibson 13 lines, 3 comments - Enter the dream-house, brothers and sisters, leaving
Your debts asleep, your history at the door:by Cecil Day Lewis 33 lines - Seeing we never found gay fairyland
(Though still we crouched by bluebells moon by moon)by Wilfred Owen 14 lines, 1 comment - Tis true, my hand our Edwards cann't enrowle
In honours brazen leaves; nor draw a lineby Charles Aleyn 1519 lines - So closed our tale, of which I give you all
The random scheme as wildly as it rose:by Alfred Lord Tennyson 118 lines - When consciousness came back, he found he lay
Between the opposing fires, but could not tellby Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 168 lines - Cramped in that funnelled hole, they watched the dawn
Open a jagged rim around; a yawnby Wilfred Owen 9 lines - We sighted her one day early; the forenoon watch was begun,
There was mist like wool on the water, and a glimpse of a pale, cold sunby Cicely Fox Smith 43 lines - Now, youth, the hour of thy dread passion comes;
Thy lovely things must all be laid away;by Ivor Gurney 14 lines - In the shadow of a broken house,
Down a deserted street,by Robert Laurence Binyon 12 lines, 1 comment - He came down the stairs on the laughter-filled grill
Where patriots were eating and drinking their fill,by Edgar Albert Guest 30 lines, 2 comments - Shadow by shadow, stripped for fight,
The lean black cruisers search the sea.by Alfred Noyes 42 lines - Will they never fade or pass!
The mud, and the misty figures endlessly comingby Vance Palmer 16 lines, 1 comment - Little did I dream, England, that you bore me
Under the Cotswold Rills beside the water meadowsby Ivor Gurney 22 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 - It is not that my heart grieves
For these burnt-out Autumn leaves,by Douglas Gibson 11 lines, 12 comments - He is known to the sun-white Majesties
Who stand at the gates of dawn.by Angela Morgan 43 lines - Courage came to you with your boyhood's grace
Of ardent life and limb.by Winifred Mary Letts 48 lines - Same old trenches, same old view,
Same old rats as blooming tame,by A.A. Milne 8 lines - To Houston at Gonzales town, ride, Ranger, for your life,
I nor stop to say good-by to-day to home or child or wife;by James Jeffrey Roche 59 lines - Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound,
We stumbled on a stationary voice,by Alfred Lord Tennyson 558 lines - Oh, sailed you by the Goodwins,
Oh, came you by the Sound?by Cicely Fox Smith 31 lines - The conquered world is bowed and worshipful,
And lovely Peace smooth-gowned in lightest greyby Leon Gellert 18 lines
