The Saga Of Sergeant Scott (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Private Scott of the Highlanders,Strutted and swanked in the market-place.Each flap and lapel set smooth in place,Buttons polished to mirror ...
Burnett A. Ward Poems on Man (19 Poems)
Ballade Of The C.C.F. (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Men, brother men, who, voiceless, round us fret,How can ye credit still they are sincere?This premier and his puppet cabinet,This ...
Pan In The Park (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
I've never been to Thessaly, and Ida's vales may never seeWhere gods have doffed divinity for wanton love and play;But ...
The Pity Of The Dead (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Adown a road in Picardy Where War has wed Romance, There came ...
Magdalen Walks (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Cloying her lips as the honeycomb, smooth are the words of her mouth,But her feet in the paths of the ...
Vesper Song (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
The organ peals through pictured panes that etch strange patterns on the grass,A thorned head shadowed on the flags, beneath ...
The Spirit Of The Press (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Ho! Ye who mourn the serried ranks that mouldOn fens of Flanders, hills of Picardy,Who rail at king or kaiser, ...
Death In Israel (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Long has been the pilgrimage, Oh son of my begetting;Weary through the centuries and o'er the deserts wide;Myriad the altars ...
Time’s Remorses (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Before the raid at Avion, we talked an hour or more,Of home, and hopes, and girls, and beer, of profiteers ...
Spring In Labor Camp (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Spring is in the Valley, sap and budding time,A thousand voices rally into sheer, clear rhyme;Swallows are a-wheeling, robins chant ...
Box Car Elegy (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Eighteen; and Life had shewn him all she hathOf hate and bitterness and carking care;Brimming the chalice with the dread ...
A Lesson (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
I saw, in No Man's land,Tw boys handclasp in brotherhood of death,As children clutch each other's hand at dusk;Transcending Fatherland ...
Dollfuss (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
A catafalque beneath St. Stephen's spire;Tensed mobs, that sob and surge with fearful breath;Wrath of the criminals who paid his ...
Sic Transit (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Why clamour havoc when a god grows old?We've seen them start and quicken, rise and glowReflecting votive light, then murky ...
Ichabod (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Here shrines are void and voiceless, all are fled;Roofless the columns and the altars bare.Shades of Olympus twine with mortal ...
Christmas Carol (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Fear not! For unto you is born a Child,In David's city Christ the Lord is born!(And babes today, Life's heritage ...
Resurgam (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Were these condemned in pre-auroral gloom?When Thought on Cosmos brooded, in the greyCold mists of dawn, unflushed by rising day,Were ...
Fascism (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Oh Shade obscene from out the jungled past,Fear o' the Dark made incarnate again,And manifest in torture, lust, and pain,Thou ...
W.A.P. (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
The Genoese his world's horizon scanned;Fools scoffed him, savants laughed and bishops bannedWith Columbus perished all their ancient ways,Old forms ...