Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FESTUBERT: THE OLD GERMAN LINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sparse mists of moonlight hurt our eyes Last Line: The gray rags fluttered on the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
SPARSE mists of moonlight hurt our eyes With gouged and scourged uncertainties Of soul and soil in agonies. One derelict grim skeleton That drench and dry had battened on Still seemed to wish us malison; Still zipped across the gouts of lead Or cracked like whipcracks overhead; The gray rags fluttered on the dead. | 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 ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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