For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell Poem)
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
"Dulce et decorum est" The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war it sings to-day. The road is ...
(For Cecil Chesterton) At the foot of the Cross on Calvary Three soldiers sat and diced, And one of them ...
Upon a bank I sat, a child made seer Of one small primrose flowering in my mind. Better than wealth ...
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no ...
1914-18 The Garden called Gethsemane In Picardy it was, And there the people came to see The English soldiers pass. ...
March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies. Front! -- eyes front, an' watch the Colour-casin's drip. Front! The ...
Old as the world--no other things so old; Nay, older than the world, else, how had sprung Such lusty strength ...
The tightness and the nilness round that space when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect its make ...
I now delight In spite Of the might And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, ...
In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away They were waiting there in ...
Stripped of his clothing soldiers drawing lots while he was yet dying the signs of his scourging his blood in ...
Our soldiers in the field, out in the desert sands fighting, killing our brothers. Sons of Ishmael, sons of Isaac ...
One thousand more of our best and brightest our nation's treasure, spent in the streets, in the dust of that ...
They stand on guard once more in harm's way in hostile lands answering the nation's call on point in the ...
You were my first love Gone when I was thirteen On May Day, your day. Your smiling face and the ...
Like an army general on parade reviewing the troops in the convoy tooling down the highway into battle I drove ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
GOD save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings so dear: Let them be spread around ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington's time, So when present unpleasantness started, He ...
I never hear the word "escape" Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation A flying attitude! I never hear of ...
Don't talk to me of War or stalk the ground our fabled soldiers died upon, I'm sound of limb and ...
It happened by Bretton Wood (although that wasn't it's real name) and I recall a clear, grey dawn and the ...
You whom the kings saluted; who refused not The one great pleasure of ignoble days, Fame without name and glory ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Botticelli grinned with egg tempera congealed at the hinge of his lips Velasquez licked shine from an aubergine blackened in ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
I wander thro' each charter'd street. Near where the charter'd Thames does flow A mark in every face I meet ...
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