An Airfield Remembered (Anonymous British Poems)
We were hungry, tired and dirty,From our shoulders rifles hung,Our clothes were torn, our faces bronzedBy long hours in the ...
We were hungry, tired and dirty,From our shoulders rifles hung,Our clothes were torn, our faces bronzedBy long hours in the ...
The smell of arnica is strong, And mother's time is spentIn rubbing father's arms and back With burning ...
One time, 'way back where the year marks fadeGod said: "I see I must lose my West,The place where I've ...
Now when, beneath the riotous drinking,The witches found the liquor sinkingSo low their ladles couldn't reach it,The blacksmith with a ...
Disease was lurking in the cup!Disastrous folly mantling there!For promised joys he quaffed it up-And his were ruin and despair!Yes-so ...
To make sure You have not said: "I love you," They smell your breath. They even smell your heart Trying ...
Time masks, but cannot bound my love for thee; All the year's changes, the bud, bloom, and fall Of the ...
GOD grant me these: the strength to doSome needed service here;The wisdom to be brave and true;The gift of vision ...
Let me be at the place of the castle. Let the castle be within me. Let it rise foursquare from ...
They burned lime on the hill and dropped it down here in an iron car On a long cable; here ...
Shall I take thee, the Poet said To the propounded word? Be stationed with the Candidates Till I have finer ...
I was the slightest in the House -- I took the smallest Room -- At night, my little Lamp, and ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
I, from a window where the Meuse is wide, Looked eastward out to the September night; The men that in ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
In the little Crimson Manual it's written plain and clear That who would wear the scarlet coat shall say good-bye ...
Some of us believe We would have conceived romantic Love out of our own passions With no precedents, Without songs ...
Sir Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn Beat the English in every wheel and turn, And made them fly in great ...
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time, And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of ...
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with ...
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