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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHERE ARE THE WARRING BRAVE?, by JOSIE CRAIG BERRY First Line: Where are the warring brave of yesterday? Last Line: We'd circle on the trail to near their start. | |||
Where are the warring brave of yesterday? Where lie their rusting implements of pain? Where are the banners; vanguards of the way That led them on into a lethal rain? Was all their dying -- all their hope in vain? What is there now that's left to justify Their sacrifice? What foothold did we gain? What echo sounds the notes of their death cry? What won a world that sent its youth to die, Its best to fall, its noblest and its bold? Have tears smoothed out the hummocks where they lie? Will things be better when the world is old? They did not know -- not one courageous heart -- We'd circle on the trail to near their start. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THANKSGIVING - 1937 by JOSIE CRAIG BERRY TO WHISTLER, AMERICAN; ON LOAN EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS AT TATE GALLERY by EZRA POUND CLORINDA AND DAMON by ANDREW MARVELL FOR [OR TO] THOSE WHO FAIL by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER KNOWLEDGE by HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN STATE by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON GREEN AISLES by WILLIAM ROSE BENET NIGHT WATCHERS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 45. FAREWELL TO JULIET (7) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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