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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD WAR, by ARTHUR LEONARD PHELPS First Line: I see you sitting in the sungleams there Last Line: Old war and all its honour and high pride. Subject(s): World War I - Canada | |||
I SEE you sitting in the sungleams there, Scabbard on arm, the mighty blade withdrawn, Musing a little. Dreams of customs gone People your mood—old loves, old quests to dare; The sword so doubly tempered to its wont Of battle, keen to be swift smiting through Dark arms, you fondle almost as if you Had borne it shouting in the fight's red front. All this upon a quiet afternoon Of golden sun in Canada. The years Are but a curtain that you brush aside. This hour you hear the ancient battle rune In gleaming glens, and to your sight appears Old war and all its honour and high pride. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TECUMSEH AND THE EAGLES by BLISS CARMAN CANADIANS by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE CANADA TO ENGLAND by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL FLEURETTE (THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS) by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GODWIN JAMES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE LAST JUDGMENT by JOHN CROWE RANSOM OWEN SEAMAN; ESTABLISHES ENTENE CORDIALE IN MANNER GUY WETMORE CARRYL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER by KATHERINE DYER A FAREWELL by GEORGE GASCOIGNE THE VIRGIN'S SLUMBER SONG by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL |
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