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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BE SURE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS First Line: You who are roofed and fed Last Line: Only their bodies build you barricade. Subject(s): Disasters; Fear; War | |||
You who are roofed and fed, who feel the soles of your feet cold, cold on the cellar floors of fear, who smell the cities burning, hear long thunder of destruction shake the pane, and turn between the haranguing two, the niggard heart, professor brain, distracted, with no deed to meet this anger of an evil year — Be sure there are the valiant still riding their craft through wild-whale sea, through splintering sky and bursting hill. Over the lines of terror, terribly their names like a thousand planes make raid. Be sure there are the valiant still — only their bodies build you barricade. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS AGAINST THE MISER MIND by ALICE MONKS MEARS |
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