Malmaison (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
Poems about officer (25 Poems)
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The Young British Soldier (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
Gethsemane (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1914-18 The Garden called Gethsemane In Picardy it was, And there the people came to see The English soldiers pass. ...
A Code of Morals (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, And hied away to the Hurrum Hills ...
Desesperanto (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
After Joseph Roth Parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi. Montaigne, De L'amitië The dream's forfeit was a night ...
Gioconda And Si-Ya-U (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Escape (Robert Graves Poem)
August 6, 1916.-Officer previously reported died of wounds, now reported wounded: Graves, Captain R., Royal Welch Fusiliers.) .but I was ...
A Moment of Witness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I have been thinking, praying too often these last two days the throw-away expletive His counsel, this officer of the ...
Got a Match? (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh how to tell the tale to spin the yarn, to pull you in Bring you along, down memory road ...
The Ancient World (Mark Doty Poem)
Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...
The Prohibition (John Donne Poem)
Take heed of loving me; At least remember I forbade it thee; Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste ...
It seldom snowed, they said – Part I (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Executive (John Betjeman Poem)
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the ...
California Plush (Frank Bidart Poem)
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
The Burglar Of Babylon (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
Commandeering (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Our hero was a Tommy with a conscience free from care, And such an open countenance that when he breathed ...
The Battle of Alma (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the heights of Alma the battle began. But the Russians turned and fled every man; Because Sir Colin ...
The Execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of May, The city of Edinburgh was put into a ...
The Hero of Rorke’s Drift (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time, And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of ...
A Tribute to Henry M. Stanley (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...
The Battle of Alexandria (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
It was on the 21st of March in the year of 1801, The British were at their posts every man; ...
The Distant Winter (Philip Levine Poems)
from an officer's diary during the last war I The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids. "Stephan! Stephan!" The ...