The Ruins Of Time (Robert Lowell Poem)
(Quevedo, Mire los muros de la partia mia and Buscas en Roma a Roma, (!)O peregrino!) I I saw the ...
Poems about medals (21 Poems)
Interregnum (Weldon Kees Poem)
Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant, And leave him stinking in the square. Torture the chancellor. Leave the ambassador Strung by ...
Fuzzy-Wuzzy (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Soudan Expeditionary Force) We've fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was ...
Gunner (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Did they send me away from my cat and my wife To a doctor who poked me and counted my ...
Losses (Randall Jarrell Poem)
It was not dying: everybody died. It was not dying: we had died before In the routine crashes-- and our ...
ducks and wisdom (Rg Gregory Poem)
seven lacqueur ducks on a silver pond their rippling held in a moveless ...
from crossing the line (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
Corporal Stare (Robert Graves Poem)
Back from the line one night in June, I gave a dinner at Bethune- Seven courses, the most gorgeous meal ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Something to shout about (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
Roosters (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
The Fish (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in ...
Conscripts (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
'Fall in, that awkward squad, and strike no more Attractive attitudes! Dress by the right! The luminous rich colours that ...
The Seven Ages of Wise (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Parliament's a stage, And all the Politicians merely players! They have their exits and entrances, And Wise doth in his ...
There’s Another Blessed Horse Fell Down (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and sleeping sound, Without a care or trouble on your mind, And ...
A Terre (Wilfred Owen Poems)
(Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake ...
The Death of Prince Leopold (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! noble Prince Leopold, he is dead! Who often has his lustre shed: Especially by singing for the benefit of ...
The Relief of Mafeking (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Success to Colonel Baden-Powell and his praises loudly sing, For being so brave in relieving Mafeking, With his gallant little ...
The Earthly Paradise: The Lady of the Land (William Morris Poems)
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
Isandlwana (John McCrae Poems)
Scarlet coats, and crash o' the band, The grey of a pauper's gown, A soldier's grave in Zululand, And a ...
A Curse for Kings (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A curse upon each king who leads his state, No matter what his plea, to this foul game, And may ...