Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CANADIANS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poet's Biography First Line: With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs Last Line: Softly fall the feet of them along the english lanes. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): World War I - Canada | ||||||||
WITH arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs, With the trampling sound of twenty that re-echoes in the roofs, Low of crest and dull of coat, wan and wild of eye, Through our English village the Canadians go by. Shying at a passing cart, swerving from a car, Tossing up an anxious head to flaunt a snowy star, Racking at a Yankee gait, reaching at the rein, Twenty raw Canadians are tasting life again! Hollow-necked and hollow-flanked, lean of rib and hip, Strained and sick and weary with the wallow of the ship, Glad to smell the turf again, hear the robin's call, Tread again the country road they lost at Montreal! Fate may bring them dule and woe; better steeds than they Sleep beside the English guns a hundred leagues away; But till war hath need of them, lightly lie their reins, Softly fall the feet of them along the English lanes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TECUMSEH AND THE EAGLES by BLISS CARMAN OLD WAR by ARTHUR LEONARD PHELPS CANADA TO ENGLAND by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL FLEURETTE (THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS) by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE A TELL-TALE TRYST by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE A WILDFLOWER BY THE WAY by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE ABANDONED SELECTIONS by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE FROM THE GULF by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE HOW THE FIRE QUEEN CROSSED THE SWAMP by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE |
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