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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 A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 54 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN 23RD STREET RUNS INTO HEAVEN by KENNETH PATCHEN LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN WHAT BEST I SEE; TO U.S.G. RETURN'D FROM HIS WORLD'S TOUR by WALT WHITMAN SPRING GLADNESS by JOHN BURROUGHS THE GRAVEYARD AT WEST POINT by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER RELEASE by ADA CLARKE CARMICHIEL A SONG (IN IMITATION OF THE SCOTCH) by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON |
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