I have forgotten Pharoah and the Caesars And the black battles that they blundered through, Where men gasped out their lives, with stiffened eyelids, As men died three years ago, forgotten too. I have forgotten ancient martial musics That summoned youth to blunted faceless years: Galloping drums, proud horns and sounding bugles Drowning the guns, trench-smells, before-dawn fears. I have forgotten in this tree-filled valley, Loud with the rush of wind like surf on shore, How it grows now, rooted in our oblivion, Cruel, condign, the cancer men call war. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (B) by WILLIAM BLAKE SONNET: 53 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BETH GELERT; OR, THE GRAVE OF THE GREYHOUND by WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER THE SUNDEW by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE FREQUENTLY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE TWO GRAVES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 55 by BLISS CARMAN |