Famous Cordite Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Cordite poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cordite poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cordite poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Lichtenberg

by Rudyard Kipling
 Smells are surer than sounds or sights
 To make your heart-strings crack--
They start those awful voices o' nights
 That whisper, " Old man, come back! "
That must be why the big things pass
 And the little things remain,
Like the smell of the wattle by Lichtenberg,
 Riding in, in the rain.


 There was some silly fire on the flank
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