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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MOUNTAIN OF SKELETONS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain strikes into a clouded sky Last Line: In what forgotten war. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Mountains; Skeletons; Soldiers; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War | |||
A mountain strikes into a clouded sky, Abrupt and black. Its crags are cold and bare Like rocks of ice. No voice comes there, nor foot: But the wind wanders there. The wind walks there and whimpers as of old, And runs like ghostly packs of wolves that wail And follow forever fleshless thru the dark Some phantom trail. Like giant cobwebs on the flinty crags Bones glint and glimmer palely thru the dark; Skulls wag and tinkle, stirred by winds whose tread They have no ears to mark. A thousand brittle skeletons lie there: Rust long has eaten the iron of their spears; The very jackals that once ate their flesh Are dead a hundred years. They slowly break beneath the feet of time Nearer to dust. Some day they'll gleam no more. But Oh! what people are they? And they died In what forgotten war. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN CARPENTER OF ETERNITY by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT |
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