War 🪖 Flashcards
“Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Bent Gas Flows, Bloody Lies
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.”
“Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!”
“Flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.”
“Blood shod. All went lame; all blind.”
“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.”
“The Soldier”
If Rich England Dreams Peace
“If I should die, think only this of me.”
“In that rich earth a richer dust concealed.”
“A body of England’s, breathing English air.”
“Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day.”
“In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.”
“Mametz Wood”
Young Birds Break Silent Dance
“The wasted young, turning up under their plough blades.”
“Broken bird’s egg of a skull.”
“A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade.”
“Like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin.”
“Their skeletons paused mid-dance macabre.”
“A Wife In London”
Tawny Light Breaks, Iron Pages Fall
“She sits in the tawny vapour.”
“The street-lamp glimmers cold.”
“He — has fallen — in the far South Land.”
“His hand, whom the worm now knows.”
“The fog hangs thicker.”
“The Manhunt”
Pass Frozen Ribs Close Fractured Heart
“Only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face.”
“The damaged, porcelain collar-bone.”
“The parachute silk of his punctured lung.”
“Feel the hurt of his grazed heart.”
“Then, and only then, did I come close.”
