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A Memory - by Margaret Sackville

{ Poem }

There was no sound at all, no crying in the village,
/ Nothing you would count as sound, that is, after the…

Dulce Et Decorum Est - by Wilfred Owen

{ Poem }

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory, / The…

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 –…

War - by John Peterson

{ Poem }

The songs I’ve sung are futile,
/ Of little futile things,
/ Of foolish dreams and fancies
/ On feeble faltering wings;
/ So I will cease my…

On Revisiting the Somme - by J. E. Stewart

{ Poem }

If I were but a Journalist,
/ And had a heading every day
/ In double-column caps, I wist
/ I, too, could make it…

Women Demobilised - by May Wedderburn Cannan

{ Poem }

July 1919
/
/ Now we must go back again to the world
/ Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying,
/ And in the…

Last Bus Ride in July – a Mother Speaks (Genocide – Srebrenica, July, 1995; Karadzic captured – Belgrade, July, 2008) - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

Summer grass is shoulder high once more, / higher than my sons will ever be.

The Soldier’s Wife - by Jean Guthrie-Smith

{ Poem }

My warrior comes from France to-night
/ And I, so long disconsolate,
/ Once more the well-beloved of Fate,
/ With work-scarred hands go quick to…

From the Line - by Roderick Watson Kerr

{ Poem }

Have you seen men come from the Line,
/ Tottering, doddering, as if bad wine
/ Had drugged their very souls;
/ Their…

Ghosts of War - by E. Alan Mackintosh

{ Poem }

When you and I are buried
/ With grasses over head,
/ The memory of our fights will stand
/ Above this bare and tortured land,
/ We…

The Volunteer - by E. Alan Mackintosh

{ Poem }

I took my heart from the fire of love,
/ Molten and warm not yet shaped clear,
/ And tempered…

The Permanence of the Young Men - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

No man outlives the grief of war
/ Though he outlive its wreck:
/ Upon the memory a scar
/ Through all his years will ache.
/
/ Hopes…

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