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death in battle

Reconciliation - by Margaret Sackville

{ Poem }

When all the stress and all the toil is over,And my lover lies sleeping by your lover,With alien earth on hands and brows and feet,          Then we may meet. Moving sorrowfully with uneven paces,The bright sun shining on our ravaged faces,There, very quietly, without sound or speech,          […]

Na Mairbh san Raoin - by Murchadh Moireach
Murdo Murray

{ Poem }

Bu shunntach iad a’ dol thar raoin na strì
Tha ’n sin ’nan laighe sìnt’ an sàmhchair bhuain

Jock, to the First Army - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

O Rab an’ Dave an’ rantin’ Jim,
The geans were turnin’ reid
When Scotland saw yer line grow dim,
Wi’ the pipers at its heid…

Ar Tìr ’s Ar Gaisgich A Thuit sna Blàir - by Iain Rothach
John Munro

{ Poem }

(ii) ’S iomadh fear àlinn, òg, sgairteil, deas-làmhach, Ait-fhaoilt air chinn a bhlàth-chridh’, Tric le ceum daigheann, làidir, ceum aotrum, glan, sàil-ghlan Dhìrich bràigh nam beann mòra, Chaidh a choinneimh a’ bhàis – Tric ga fhaireach’ roimh-làimh – Chaidh suas chum a’ bhlàir ’S tha feur glas an-diugh ’fàs Air na dh’fhàg innleachdan nàmh, Innleachdan […]

Any Private to Any Private - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

Ay, gie’s ma rum. I’m needin’t sair, by God!
/ We’ve juist been bringin’ Wullie doun the line –…

The Green Grass - by Joseph Lee

{ Poem }

The dead spake together last night,
/ And one to the other said:
/ …

Prayer Before Action – 1916 - by William Hutcheson

{ Poem }

Dear God, when zero time arrives
/ And I am in the killing stunt,
/ To take perhaps a dozen lives,
/ Or I myself…

The Legless Man - by Robert Service

{ Poem }

(The Dark Side)
/
/ My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out,
/ Eight days of hunger, thirst and…

The Stare’s Nest by My Window - by W.B. Yeats

{ Poem }

The bees build in the crevices
/ Of loosening masonry, and there
/ The mother birds bring grubs and flies.
/ My wall is loosening;…

In Flanders Fields - by John McCrae

{ Poem }

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
/ Between the crosses, row on row,
/ That mark our place; and…

In Memoriam - by E. Alan Mackintosh

{ Poem }

Private D. Sutherland
/ killed in action in the German trench, May 16, 1916,
/ and the others who died
/
/ So you were David’s…

from At Maldon - by J.O. Morgan

{ Poem }

Waves beating up against cliffs.
/ Cliffs holding hard against waves.
/
/ …

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