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Here is a link to a poetry site with war poems or other types of poems...
Link is about poems about war...
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-war/
Snip... a short poem...
The Battle-Field
by Emily Dickinson
They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When suddenly across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
They perished in the seamless grass, —
No eye could find the place;
But God on his repeal less list
Can summon every face.
Link to WW1 poems... 22 poems...
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/world-war-1-poems/
Snip... a short poem
The Lost Ones
by Francis Ledwidge
Somewhere is music from the linnets' bills,
And thro' the sunny flowers the bee-wings drone,
And white bells of convolvulus on hills
Of quiet May make silent ringing, blown
Hither and thither by the wind of showers,
And somewhere all the wandering birds have flown;
And the brown breath of Autumn chills the flowers.
But where are all the loves of long ago?
O little twilight ship blown up the tide,
Where are the faces laughing in the glow
Of morning years, the lost ones scattered wide
Give me your hand, O brother, let us go
Crying about the dark for those who died.
Link to Civil War poems... 22 poems...
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/civil-war-poems/
Snip... a short poem
Robert Gould Shaw
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Why was it that the thunder voice of Fate
Should call thee, studious, from the classic groves,
Where calm-eyed Pallas with still footsteps roves,
And charge thee seek the turmoil of the State?
What bade thee hear the voice and rise elate,
Leave home and kindred and thy spicy loaves,
To lead th' unlettered and despised droves
To manhood's home and thunder at the gate?
Far better the slow blaze of Learning's light,
The cool and quiet of her dearer fane,
Than this hot terror of a hopeless fight,
This cold endurance of the final pain,—
Since thou and those who with thee died for right
Have died, the Present teaches, but in vain!
Note: Dunbar was a Black poet...
The site has more poems of war, patriotism, Lincoln, and many more topics...
Link is about poems about war...
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-war/
Snip... a short poem...
The Battle-Field
by Emily Dickinson
They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When suddenly across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
They perished in the seamless grass, —
No eye could find the place;
But God on his repeal less list
Can summon every face.
Link to WW1 poems... 22 poems...
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/world-war-1-poems/
Snip... a short poem
The Lost Ones
by Francis Ledwidge
Somewhere is music from the linnets' bills,
And thro' the sunny flowers the bee-wings drone,
And white bells of convolvulus on hills
Of quiet May make silent ringing, blown
Hither and thither by the wind of showers,
And somewhere all the wandering birds have flown;
And the brown breath of Autumn chills the flowers.
But where are all the loves of long ago?
O little twilight ship blown up the tide,
Where are the faces laughing in the glow
Of morning years, the lost ones scattered wide
Give me your hand, O brother, let us go
Crying about the dark for those who died.
Link to Civil War poems... 22 poems...
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/civil-war-poems/
Snip... a short poem
Robert Gould Shaw
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Why was it that the thunder voice of Fate
Should call thee, studious, from the classic groves,
Where calm-eyed Pallas with still footsteps roves,
And charge thee seek the turmoil of the State?
What bade thee hear the voice and rise elate,
Leave home and kindred and thy spicy loaves,
To lead th' unlettered and despised droves
To manhood's home and thunder at the gate?
Far better the slow blaze of Learning's light,
The cool and quiet of her dearer fane,
Than this hot terror of a hopeless fight,
This cold endurance of the final pain,—
Since thou and those who with thee died for right
Have died, the Present teaches, but in vain!
Note: Dunbar was a Black poet...
The site has more poems of war, patriotism, Lincoln, and many more topics...
