Serviceman’s Complaint (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Cockcrow's chalky virtue, a swanscales up and over willows,thrashing her misty pool. No one hollosher decamping, sluggish as though only ...
Cockcrow's chalky virtue, a swanscales up and over willows,thrashing her misty pool. No one hollosher decamping, sluggish as though only ...
Ward one-hundred-and-thirty in the passage on the right.It's five in the morning for the milk-carthas gone with its horses, eyes ...
Said the Presidential SkeletonI won't sign the billSaid the Speaker skeletonYes you willSaid the Representative SkeletonI objectSaid the Supreme Court ...
the Chinaman said don't take the hardware and gave me a steak I couldn't cut (except the fat) and there ...
All winter long you listened for the boom Of distant cannon wheeled into their place. Sometimes outside beneath a bombers' ...
Jerry had us on the run, the news was far from hot,He had his feet in Egypt and the Sphinx ...
We're all buying SpitfiresAs fast as we can buySpitfires and HurricanesFor battles in the sky . . . The girls ...
August. 105 in the shade.In a field we watch the bomberstaking off and landing.The heat over the valleyis a virus ...
When you and I are buriedWith grasses over head,The memory of our fights will standAbove this bare and tortured land,We ...
June, gentle June, of whom the crooners croon,Sweet month of silk, of salmon, and the swoon;June, what a chance you ...
Aren't they beautiful in the sun! she said,Shading her youthful eyes against the light,In rapturous wonder at the bombers' flight,Silver ...
The great ships sink — we praise the Navy still.The bombers fall — we speak no airman ill.Why give the ...
It was not dying: everybody died. It was not dying: we had died before In the routine crashes-- and our ...
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
hooray say the roses, today is blamesday and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wednesday ...
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in drag here comes nothing to do all day long ...
The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying, And Yellow-Pressmen thronged the sunlit street To cheer the soldiers ...
It was my bridal night I remember, An old man of seventy-three I lay with my young bride in my ...
We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, ...
Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a rhyme as Viagra and Niagara there must be a reason honeymooners traditionally went to ...
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