Famous Huns Poems by Famous Poets

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A Song Of Winter Weather

...st of a mine;
It isn't the snipers who seek
 To nip our young hopes in the bud:
No, it isn't the guns,
And it isn't the Huns --
 It's the MUD,
 MUD,
 MUD.

It isn't the melee we mind.
That often is rather good fun.
 It isn't the shrapnel we find
Obtrusive when rained by the ton;
 It isn't the bounce of the bombs
That gives us a positive pain:
 It's the strafing we get
When the weather is wet --
 It's the RAIN,
 RAIN,
 RAIN.

It isn't because we lack grit
 We shrink from the h...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Julie Claire

...had Julie Claire
When life was lush and gay.

And then the village wealth to pillage
Came the Teuton horde;
The haughty Huns with mighty guns
And clattering of sword.
And Julie Claire had honey hair
With eyes of soft azure,
So she became the favoured flame
Of the Kommandatur.

But when at last the plague was past,
The bloody war well won,
We clipped the locks of every dox
Who dallied with the Hun.
Each wench with scorn was duly shorn;
Our Marie the shears would weld,
And Juli...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Kelly Of The Legion

...His soul athirst to slay,
His slogan ringing, ringing,
"The Layjun lades the way!"

 Till in a pit death-baited,
 Where Huns with Maxims waited,
 He plunged . . . and there, blood-sated,
 To death he stabbed his way.

Now Kelly was a fellow
Who simply loathed a fight:
He loved a tavern mellow,
Grog hot and pipe alight;
I'm sure the Show appalled him,
And yet without dismay,
When Death and Duty called him,
He up and led the way.

 So in Valhalla drinking
 (If heroes meek and s...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

May 24 1980

...it the country the bore and nursed me.
Those who forgot me would make a city.
I have waded the steppes that saw yelling Huns in saddles, worn the clothes nowadays back in fashion in every quarter, planted rye, tarred the roofs of pigsties and stables, guzzled everything save dry water. I've admitted the sentries' third eye into my wet and foul dreams. Munched the bread of exile; it's stale and warty.
Granted my lungs all sounds except the howl;
switched to a whisper. Now I am...Read more of this...
by Brodsky, Joseph

May 24 1980

...the country the bore and nursed me.
Those who forgot me would make a city.
I have waded the steppes that saw yelling Huns in saddles 
worn the clothes nowadays back in fashion in every quarter 
planted rye tarred the roofs of pigsties and stables 
guzzled everything save dry water.
I've admitted the sentries' third eye into my wetand foul
dreams. Munched the bread of exile; it's stale and warty.
Granted my lungs all sounds except the howl;
switched to a whisper. Now...Read more of this...
by Brodsky, Joseph


Priscilla

...old girl. . . . But hark!"

Howl of a shell, harsh, sudden, dread;
Another . . . another. . . . "Strike me dead
If the Huns ain't strafing the road ahead
So the convoy can't get through!
A barrage of shrap, and us alone;
Four rush-cases -- you hear 'em moan?
Fierce old messes of blood and bone. . . .
Priscilla, what shall we do?"

Again it seems that Priscilla hears.
With a rush and a roar her way she clears,
Straight at the hell of flame she steers,
Full at its heart of wra...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Protus

...its fate the year before,---
``Came, had a mind to take the crown, and wore
``The same for six years (during which the Huns
``Kept off their fingers from us), till his sons
``Put something in his liquor''---and so forth.
Then a new reign. Stay---``Take at its just worth''
(Subjoins an annotator) ``what I give
``As hearsay. Some think, John let Protus live
``And slip away. 'Tis said, he reached man's age
``At some blind northern court; made, first a page,
``Then tutor to the ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Stand Fast!

...m on his heel, 
Striding through France to strike you down at last,
Britain, stand fast ! 

Stand fast, brave land!
The Huns are thundering toward the citadel; 
They prate of Culture but their path is Hell; 
Their light is darkness, and the bloody sword
They wield and worship is their only Lord.
O land where reason stands secure on right, 
O land where freedom is the source of light, 
Against the mailed Barbarians' deadly blast,
Britain, stand fast! 

Stand fast, dear land!
T...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

The Fathers

...
My boy’s quite broken-hearted, stuck 
In England training all this year. 
Still, if there’s truth in what we hear,
The Huns intend to ask for more 
Before they bolt across the Rhine.’ 
I watched them toddle through the door— 
These impotent old friends of mine....Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

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