War Poems - Page 3

41. Welcome Home

• By Regina M. Elliott
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 23, 2023 with permission of the Author.

When I met the tall and amiable Vietnam War veteran,
my shyness showed,
yet, my throat dried and tightened when he softly
spoke the words, "The war never goes away."

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42. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

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• By William Butler Yeats

I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;

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43. Military

• By Kelsey Lane
• Published by Family Friend Poems November 2016 with permission of the Author.

I don't want him to go.
I don't want him to leave.
What can I do?
All I do is plead.

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44. Finding Peace

• By John Baumgartner
• Published by Family Friend Poems October 2016 with permission of the Author.

Turmoil covers my eyes and my heart.
It never leaves me in day or dark.
Combat changed me to this way.
Hate and death seem to be with me to stay.

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45. Lest We Forget

• By Iola J Zaan
• Published by Family Friend Poems November 15, 2023 with permission of the Author.

On barren land on western field
Where only sadness war can yield
On battle sites where none had grown
In fact the bravest seeds were sewn

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46. There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time)

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• By Sara Teasdale

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

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47. The Star-Spangled Banner

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• By Francis Scott Key

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?

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48. The Man He Killed

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• By Thomas Hardy

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

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49. To The War Returning

• By May Fenn
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 2018 with permission of the Author.

How blue are the eyes of my darling
And warm are her lips ruby red.
How white are her arms of enchantment
That beckon me into her bed.

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50. Does It Matter?

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• By Siegfried Sassoon

Does it matter?—losing your leg? . . .
For people will always be kind,
And you need not show that you mind
When the others come in after hunting

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51. Beat! Beat! Drums!

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• By Walt Whitman

Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
Into the school where the scholar is studying,

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52. Listen

• By Moshe Sonnheim
• Published by Family Friend Poems October 2020 with permission of the Author.

Listen

Listen to the distant drums.
Listen to the bugles calls.

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