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Famous Wiring Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...n with his grin; and Morgan, tired and white; 
Jordan, who’s out to win a D.C.M. some night; 
And Hughes that’s keen on wiring; and Davies (’79), 
Who always must be firing at the Boche front line.

. . . . 
‘Old soldiers never die; they simply fide a-why!’ 
That’s what they used to sing along the roads last spring; 
That’s what they used to say before the push began; 
That’s where they are to-day, knocked over to a man....Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried



...‘Pass it along, the wiring party’s going out’— 
And yawning sentries mumble, ‘Wirers going out.’ 
Unravelling; twisting; hammering stakes with muffled thud, 
They toil with stealthy haste and anger in their blood. 

The Boche sends up a flare. Black forms stand rigid there,
Stock-still like posts; then darkness, and the clumsy ghosts 
Stride hither and thither, whispering, trip...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

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