~WAR POEMS~
War
has been a theme in poetry for a long time since the World War I. Under
pressure of war, people are more capable than ever to express their feelings
through poetry. Many poems were produced during war periods. Poems were written
through people’s experiences and emotions during the war.
WORLD WAR I
When you see millions of the
mouthless dead
by Charles Hamilton Sorley (c. 1915)
When you see millions
of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in
pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as
other men have said,
That you'll remember.
For you need not so.
Give them not praise.
For deaf, how should they know
It is not curses heaped
on each gashed head?
Nor tears. Their blind
eyes see not your tears flow.
Nor honour. It is easy
to be dead.
Say only this, 'They
are dead.' Then add thereto,
'Yet many a better one
has died before.'
Then scanning all the
o'ercrowded mass, should you
Perceive one face that
you loved heretofore,
It is a spook. None
wears the face you knew.
Great death has made
all his forevermore.
WORLD WAR II
(1939-1945)
The Lonely Hill
- RA Harris
Wild grow the poppies
in Tunisian vale
Gracing the green of a fertile land
And here comes "Peace" to lay her veil
On the hill of the foes last stand. .
Out of the Plain reared
the lonely hill
Like a breast bared to the sky
Its slopes clasped the fallen ever still
And its bosom echoed the swallow's cry. .
Small sanctuary of a
fallen dream
Last bastion to Enfidaville
Your crumbled fort is a desolate scene
Where all but the winds are still. .
The winds will rise and
the tall grass bend
To ripple like waves of the sea
And time will take the scars to mend
On the lonely hill of the free.
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