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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WITH COLORS GAY, by HOWARD S. ABBOTT Poet's Biography First Line: With colors gay, adown the street Last Line: With colors gay. Subject(s): France; Marching & Marches; Soldiers | |||
With colors gay, adown the street, The drums alert with stirring beat, Our lads pass by who rode for France. They proudly step with ne'er a glance To right or left. They never knew defeat. And still they come, the marching feet Sweep on. Their triumph is complete. The pennons flutter and the sky's adance With colors gay. So late in woods, the air replete With bursting shell and war's conceit, But now to pulsing beat advance, And shouts, that thrill, for home, for France, Our lads march by, adown the street With colors gay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALL ARMIES ARE THE SAME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY ABSENT WITH OFFICIAL LEAVE by RANDALL JARRELL PORT OF EMBARKATION by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON OPERATION MEMORY by DAVID LEHMAN IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION by MARIANNE MOORE |
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