The Battle Of The Headlines (A P Herbert Poems)
Hold back, sub-editor! You march and planSo much more swiftly than the soldiers can.They take a trench or two, a ...
A P Herbert Poems on Soldiers (10 Poems)
Coeur deLion (A P Herbert Poems)
I have been in France. There are some poplars still,And Norman spires unwounded on the hill:I saw the slaughtered cities ...
How Proud . . . ! (A P Herbert Poems)
(To the Luftwaffe)How proud you must be, boys, you who were Lords of the Air,Playing with fireworks, deep in a ...
‘C.D.’ (A P Herbert Poems)
Thank you, soldiers of the street,Never budging, never beat,You who steer, so fierce and fast,Ambulances through the blast,You with stretchers, ...
Montgomery (A P Herbert Poems)
Field Marshal, few, and foolish, are the landsThat do not hail the baton in your hands.They labelled you a 'showman'. ...
‘Salute The Soldier’ (A P Herbert Poems)
Hail, soldier, huddled in the rain,Hail, soldier, squelching through the mud,Hail, soldier, sick of dirt and pain,The sight of death, ...
Red Army Day (A P Herbert Poems)
Red soldier, still we cannot believe the things we see:It is five hundred leagues from Stalingrad to Spree!And you, the ...
The Travellers (A P Herbert Poems)
Soldier, are you afraid of the things to come?Do you dream of the dawn-and the cold sea's heave—And the guns' ...
W. L. A. 2 (A P Herbert Poems)
We called them 'Army', gave them 'uniform':They fought, to feed us, the dirt, the dark, the storm.And shall we now ...
W. L. A. (A P Herbert Poems)
Salute the ladies of the landWho fight with spade and plough,The girls who keep the tractors manned,And conquer bull or ...