Terra Incognita (Henrikas Nagys Poems)
In the land of blue snow there are no trees:only the shadows of trees and the names of treeswritten by ...
Poems about barracks (21 Poems)
Awakening (Jean Cocteau Poems)
Grave mouths of lionsSinuous smiling of young crocodilesAlong the river's water conveying millionsIsles of spiceHow lovely he is, the sonOf ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto III (Albert Pike Poems)
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
Book Contents: Moods Of Ginger Mick (C J Dennis Poems)
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
Featherstonhaugh (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Brookong station lay half-asleepDozed in the waning western glare('Twas before the run had stocked with sheepAnd only cattle depastured there)As ...
The Lure Of The East (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
This is the spell of the Orient &mdashThe lure of the far, far East,A lure that is soft and luxuriant ...
Three, Mighty God, All Three! (George Cosbuc Poems)
He had three sons and they, all three,When called, for the encampment left;So the poor father was bereftOf rest and ...
Soldiers’ Songs (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
1It's good and beautiful to be a soldier for a year.You live longer that way. And one is certainly pleasedWith ...
Gee-Up Bar, Mules (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"HE stood up in our khaki with the poise Of perfect soldiership beneath the praise Of the French officer. We ...
Night (Boris Pasternak Poems)
The night proceeds and dwindlingPrepares the day's rebirth.An airman is ascendingAbove the sleeping earth.And almost disappearingIn cloud, a tiny spark,He ...
Monday In The Courtyard Of The barracks (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
The heat sticks closely to the gun and to the hand.It pricks the eyes. Nothing remained forgotten.The troops stepped, half ...
TO AN OLD DANISH SONG-BOOK (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside, While the sullen gales of autumn Shake the windows. The ungrateful ...
Sappers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created ...
It seldom snowed – Part II (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed in Camp they said, on the mountains, yes, and in the Styx, aka zone six. That's where ...
Contemplating Hell (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, My brother Shelley found it to be a place Much like the city ...
What Has Happened? (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
The industrialist is having his aeroplane serviced. The priest is wondering what he said in his sermon eight weeks ago ...
The Black Sheep (Robert William Service Poems)
"The aristocratic ne'er-do-well in Canada frequently finds his way into the ranks of the Royal North-West Mounted Police." -- Extract. ...
Clancy Of The Mounted Police (Robert William Service Poems)
In the little Crimson Manual it's written plain and clear That who would wear the scarlet coat shall say good-bye ...
The Old Huntsman (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad ...
The Old Tin Hat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
In the good old days when the Army's ways were simple and unrefined, With a stock to keep their chins ...
To All and Everything (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
No. It can't be. No! You too, beloved? Why? What for? Darling, look - I came, I brought flowers, but, ...