Famous Devastated Poems by Famous Poets
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...s been his lot!
O think of the noble Stanley and his gallant little band,
While travelling through gloomy forests and devastated land,
And suffering from all kinds of hardships under a burning sun!
But the brave hero has been successful and the victory's won.
While in Africa he saw many wonderful sights,
And was engaged, no doubt, in many savage fights,
But the wise Creator was with him all along
And now he's home again to us, I hope quite strong.
And during his travel...Read more of this...
by
McGonagall, William Topaz
...ed many hateful foes,
daring difficulties, since he had cleansed,
the victory-blessed man, the hall of Hrothgar,
and devastated the family of Grendel in battle,
that despised kindred. (ll. 2345-54a)
It was hardly the least of hand-moots
when somebody struck down Hygelac,
after the Geatish king, the generous lord of the people,
in the press of battle in Friesland—
the heir of Hrethel was slain, drunk with swords,
beaten with the blade. Beowulf came away
from there...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...ill be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of coun...Read more of this...
by
Howe, Julia Ward
...hat threatened childhood's citadel
And undermined the years.
Bisected now, by bleaker griefs,
We envy the despair
That devastated childhood's realm,
So easy to repair....Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...
("Sur une barricade.")
{June, 1871.}
Like Casabianca on the devastated deck,
In years yet younger, but the selfsame core.
Beside the battered barricado's restless wreck,
A lad stood splashed with gouts of guilty gore,
But gemmed with purest blood of patriot more.
Upon his fragile form the troopers' bloody grip
Was deeply dug, while sharply challenged they:
"Were you one of this currish crew?"—...Read more of this...
by
Hugo, Victor
...sun.
The night is broken eastward; is it day,
Or but the watchfires trembling here and there,
Like hopes on memory's devastated way,
In moonless wastes of planet-stricken air?
O many-childed mother great and grey,
O multitudinous bosom, and breasts that bare
Our fathers' generations, whereat lay
The weanling peoples and the tribes that were,
Whose new-born mouths long dead
Those ninefold nipples fed,
Dim face with deathless eyes and withered hair,
Fostress of obscure lands...Read more of this...
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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