On the Prospect of Peace (Thomas Tickell Poems)
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
I.A Golden House on golden columns raised,In redly tinted skies bespangled blazed;With opening doors diffused a gladsome light,And glorious gleams ...
BOOK I.I.I sing the Cross!—Ye white-robed angel choirs,Who know the chords of harmony to sweep,Ye who o'er holy David's varying ...
18th March celebrates the birth of a fine poet and soldier Wilfred OwenMarch 18th celebrates the birthday of a man. ...
And there, in that ripe Summer-night, once moreA wintry coolness through the open doorAnd window seemed to touch each glowing ...
To the lower Hall of Valhalla, to the heroes of no renown,Relieved from his spell at the listening-post, came Rifleman ...
I WATCH them on the drill field, the awkward and the grave,The slow to action and the easily incensed,The tall ...
A Squad of regular infantryIn the Commune's closing days,Had captured a crowd of rebelsBy the wall of Pere-la-Chaise.There were desperate ...
When first I saw you in the curious streetLike some platoon of soldier ghosts in grey,My mad impulse was all ...
He had a genius, some old chap:Found a way of boilingSoup with never a pill or slopWhile the kitchen's rolling.First, ...
Dear Jock, - Like some aul' cairter's mear I'm foonert i' the feet,An' oxter-staffs are feckless things fan a' the ...
There's another gorn to glory!Damn and blast these blinkin' 'Uns!Where's our damn retaliation?What's the matter wiv the guns?If they'd only ...
It was my home, not ringed with roses blowing, Nor set in meadows where cool waters croon; Parched ...
Some Rainbow-coming from the Fair!Some Vision of the World Cashmere-I confidently see!Or else a Peacock's purple TrainFeather by feather-on the ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Some Rainbow -- coming from the Fair! Some Vision of the World Cashmere -- I confidently see! Or else a ...
Shell-shocked from Korea A grenade that left him The platoon's only survivor, Put him in Stanley Royd For thirty years. ...
1. Old Man Old man, it's four flights up and for what? Your room is hardly bigger than your bed. ...
Hullo! here's my platoon, the lot I had last year. 'The war'll be over soon.' 'What 'opes?' 'No bloody fear!' ...
I, too, saw God through mud -- The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory ...
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