Jackson’s Foot-Cavalry (Hard-Cracker Poems)
Day after day our way has been O'er many a hill and hollow;Through marsh and bog, by wood and glen — Where ...
Poems about yanks (21 Poems)
Yanks (James W Foley Poems)
O'Leary, from Chicago, and a first-class fightin' man,For his father was from Kerry, where the gentle art began:Sergeant Dennis P. ...
Sunday Night in Santa Rosa (Dana Gioia Poems)
The carnival is over. The high tents,the palaces of light, are folded flatand trucked away. A three-time loser yanksthe Wheel ...
Sir Wilfrid Laurier — Diplomatist (Alexander MacGregor Rose Poems)
I live on Canada en Bas — De fines' lan' you see — ...
In Spadger’s Lane (C J Dennis Poems)
Ole Mother Moon 'oo yanks 'er beamin' dile Acrost the sky when we've grown sick o' day,She's like some fat ...
Duck an’ Fowl (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, when a bloke 'e cracks a bloke fer insults to a skirt, An' wrecks a joint to square a ...
The Hiram Brown (Edwin James Brady Poems)
POWER o' ploughs and clothes-pegs in her, pork and beans for ev'ry sinner, Pork and beans for captain's dinner --Pass ...
Beef Tea (C J Dennis Poems)
She never nagged; she never said no word; But sat an' looked at me an' never stirred. I could ...
The Pride of Battery B (Frank H Gassaway Poems)
South Mountain towered on our right, Far off the river lay,And over on the wooded height We held their line ...
The Canadian Army (Abner Cosens Poems)
The news, "the Old Land's in it," Stirred us one August morn, Then waited not a minute ...
A Job O’ Work (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I ain't no glutton for work, said Bill, "though I done my whack in my day,An' I'd never say 'No' ...
The Kaiser Consults Fritz (Abner Cosens Poems)
Ven der Kaiser vould shtart some beeg shtunt, All dose shwells den soon come to de front, ...
Fritz Advises The Kaiser (Abner Cosens Poems)
Mine dear Kaiser,--I'm telling you straight, Dat ve nefer can vin dis beeg fight, Dough de Faderland ...
Fritz Warns The Kaiser (Abner Cosens Poems)
Mine dear Kaiser,--Dose tings vas a fake, Ven you shtart oop dat untersea show Und already a ...
Ratdenlinden (B H Jones Poems)
In prison, when the sun was up,Each "reb" licked clean his plate and cup,And not a scrap left for our ...
Dead Pals (General George S Patton Jnr Poems)
Dickey, we've trained and fit and died,Yes, drilled and drunk and bled,And shared our chuck and our bunks in life.Why ...
‘Poor Old Britain’ (A P Herbert Poems)
Nobody's wrong but England—and England's always wrong,Too late—or else too early—too soft—or else too strong.And when for once the wide ...
what if a much of a which of a wind (E. E. Cummings Poems)
what if a much of a which of a windgives the truth to summer's lie;bloodies with dizzying leaves the sunand ...
Business In Arms (A P Herbert Poems)
It was not righteousness, it was not luckThat made the Fort, the Sherman and the Duck,Or launched the Liberties and ...
Testimony (Seamus Heaney Poem)
'We were killing pigs when the Yanks arrived. A Tuesday morning, sunlight and gutter-blood Outside the slaughter house. >From the ...
Memoir of a Proud Boy (Carl Sandburg Poems)
HE lived on the wings of storm. The ashes are in Chihuahua. Out of Ludlow and coal towns in Colorado ...