Any Soldier To His Son (Anonymous Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
Poems about blighty (20 Poems)
Any Soldier To His Son (George Willis Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
A Digger’s Tale (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis Poems)
'My oath!' the Duchess sez. 'You'd not ixpectSich things as that. Yeh don't mean kangaroos?Go hon!' she sez, or words ...
Drafts (Nora Bomford Poems)
Waking to darkness; early silence brokenBy seagull's cried, and something undefinedAnd far away. Through senses half-awoken,A vague enquiry drifts into ...
Ballad Of The Three Spectres (Ivor Gurney Poems)
As I went up by OvillersIn mud and water cold to the knee,There went three jeering, fleeing spectres,That walked abreast ...
A Digger’s Tale (C J Dennis Poems)
"My oath! the Duchess sez. ""You'd not ixpect Sich things as that. Yeh don't mean kangaroos?Go hon!"" she sez, or ...
The Guards Came Through (Arthur Conan Doyle Poems)
Men of the Twenty-first Up by the Chalk Pit Wood, Weak with our wounds and our thirst, Wanting ...
To Stretcher Bearers (Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy Poems)
Easy does it - bit o' trench 'ere,Mind that blinkin' bit o' wire,There's a shell 'ole on your left there,Lift ...
The Sailor’s Farewell To His Horse. (Billy Bennett Poems)
'Twas a dirty night, 'twas a dirty trickWhen our ship turned over in the AtlanticIt was the schooner Hesperous - ...
Pillbox (Edmund Blunden Poems)
Just see what's happening Worley! Worley roseAnd round the angled doorway thrust his noseAnd serjeant Hyde went too to snuff ...
Pill-Box (Edmund Blunden Poems)
Just see what's happening, Worley.-Worley roseAnd round the angled doorway thrust his nose,And Sergeant Hoad went too. to snuff the ...
‘Ang up yet ‘at (C J Dennis Poems)
Cooee! Well, Dig, I s'pose you've 'eard that row Up in ole Blighty some ten year ago.An' it is up ...
My Bay’nit (Robert William Service Poems)
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
Tipperary Days (Robert William Service Poems)
Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them, Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare; ...
Going Home (Robert William Service Poems)
I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty -- ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! I'm loaded up wiv fightin', and I've ...
Dead Musicians (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I From you, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, The substance of my dreams took fire. You built cathedrals in my heart, And ...
Their Frailty (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He's got a Blighty wound. He's safe; and then War's fine and bold and bright. She can forget the doomed ...
Stretcher Case (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He woke; the clank and racket of the train Kept time with angry throbbings in his brain. Then for a ...
The Chances (Wilfred Owen Poems)
I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Us five got talking, -- we was in the know, "Over ...
The Dead-Beat (Wilfred Owen Poems)
He dropped, -- more sullenly than wearily, Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat, And none of us could ...