To ErosIn that I loved you, Love, I worshipped you ( Read more... )

The End by Wilfred Owen

After the blast of lightning from the East,
The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot Throne;
After the drums of Time have rolled and ceased,
And by the bronze west long retreat is blown.

Shall life renew these bodies? Of a truth
All death will He annul, all tears assuage? -
Fill the void veins of Life again with youth,
And wash, ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, somebody posted The Rain by Zbigniew Herbert in greatpoets which I loved (it's such a bittersweet, saddening poem) and, when I was in high school, I really enjoyed studying poems about WW1 and/or WW2. So, I'd like request some poems regarding or alluding to modern warfare or modern concepts of war. Any recommendations would ( Read more... )

Insensibility
Wilfred OwenI ( Read more... )

He dropped, - more sullenly than wearily ( Read more... )

Disabled
Wilfred Owen

He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,
Voices of play and pleasure after day,
Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.

( About this time Town used to swing so gay... )

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Wilfred OwenSo Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went ( Read more... )

Hello, this is my first post in this community. I checked for Wilfred Owen poems and I did not see that my favorite poem of his had been posted...So here it is ( Read more... )

Anyone have any good poems about moving -- moving house, that is. I need words to narrate my lugging of endless boxes up and down the stairs today. heh ( Read more... )

Spring Offensive
Wilfred OwenHalted against the shade of a last hill ( Read more... )