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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GUNS OF PEACE; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of dead soldiers in the battle slain Last Line: "and make all wars to cease throughout the world." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Peace | |||
GHOSTS of dead soldiers in the battle slain, Ghosts of dead heroes dying nobler far, In the long patience of inglorious war, Of famine, cold, heat, pestilence, and pain, -- All ye whose loss makes our victorious gain -- This quiet night, as sounds the cannon's tongue, Do ye look down the trembling stars among Viewing our peace and war with like disdain? Or wiser grown since reaching those new spheres, Smile ye on those poor bones ye sowed as seed For this our harvest, nor regret the deed? -- Yet lift one cry with us to Heavenly ears -- "Strike with Thy bolt the next red flag unfurled, And make all wars to cease throughout the world." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW MANY NIGHTS by GALWAY KINNELL THE MOTTO by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE TRUE BEATITUDE by RUPERT BROOKE MAKING PEACE by DENISE LEVERTOV TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 1 by YEHUDA AMICHAI TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 2 by YEHUDA AMICHAI BY THE ALMA RIVER by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK |
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