Quotes Flashcards
“…Bent double, like
old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge”.
- Dulce et decorum est
“… My friend, you would not tell
With such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”.
- Dulce et decorum est
“Men marched
Asleep”.
- Dulce et decorum est
“But the old man
Would not so, but slew his son, and half the seed of Europe, one by one”.
- The parable of the old man and the young
“Then Abram bound the youth
With belts and straps, and builded parapets and trenches there”.
- The parable of the old man and the young
“Before he threw
Away his knees”.
- Disabled
“He thought of jewelled hilts
For daggers in plaid socks; of smart salutes; and care of arms; and leave; and pay arrears; esprit de corps; and hints for young recruits”.
- Disabled
“Some cheered him home, but
Not as crowds cheer Goal”.
- Disabled
“Long-famous
Glories, immemorial shames”.
- Spring offensive
“Why speak not they
Of comrades that went under?”.
- Spring offensive
“And each slow dusk
A drawing-down of blinds”.
- Anthem for doomed youth
“Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the
Stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle can patter out their hasty orisons”.
- Anthem for doomed youth
“And the Bayonets’ long teeth grinned; Rabbles of
Shells hooted and groaned; And the Gas hissed”.
- The last laugh
“Or give him cartridges whose fine
Zinc teeth are sharp with sharpness of grief and death. For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple”.
- Arms and the boy
“I mean the truth
Untold, the pity of war, the pity war distilled”.
- Strange meeting
