Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TREES ON THE CALAIS ROAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like mourners filing into church at a funeral Last Line: Of that dead army driving by. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Trees; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
LIKE mourners filing into church at a funeral, These droop their sombre heads and troop to the coast, The untimely rain makes mystery round them all And the wind flies round them like the ghost That the body on the blackened trestles lost. Miserere sobs the weary Sky, sackclothed, stained, and dreary, And they bend their heads and sigh Miserere, Miserere! With natural dole and lamentation They groan for the slaughter and desecration, But every moment adds to the cry Of that dead army driving by. | 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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