conflict anthology poetry

• The Destruction of Sennacherib

  "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold

  And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;"
• The Destruction of Sennacherib

  "Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,

  That host with their banners at sunset were seen:

  Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,

  That host on the morrow lay withered and strown."
• The Destruction of Sennacherib

  "The Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,

  And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd"
• The Destruction of Sennacherib

  "And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,

  And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf,"
• The Destruction of Sennacherib

  "And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,

  And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;"
• The Destruction of Sennacherib

  "Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!"
• The Prelude - William Wordsworth

  "Small circles glittering idly in the moon,

  Until they melted all into one track

  Of sparkling light."
• The Prelude - William Wordsworth

  "When, from behind that craggy steep till then

  The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge,"
• The Prelude - William Wordsworth

  "No familiar shapes

  Remained, no pleasant images of trees

  Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields"
• The Prelude - William Wordsworth

  "But huge and mighty forms, that do not live

  Like living men, moved slowly through the mind

  By day, and were a trouble to my dreams."
• The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy

  "I shot at him dead because

  Because he was my foe,"
• The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy

  "I shot at him as he at me,

  And killed him in his place."
• The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy

  "Had he and I but met

  By some old ancient inn,

  ....

  You'd treat if met where any bar is,

  Or help to half-a-crown."
• The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy

  "Yes; quaint and curious war is!"
• Catrin - Gillian Clarke

  "Our struggle to become

  Separate. We want, we shouted,

  To be two, to be ourselves."
• Catrin - Gillian Clarke

  "the tight

  Red rope of love which we both fought over."
• Catrin - Gillian Clarke

  "From the heart's pool that old rope,

  Tightening about my life,"
• Catrin - Gillian Clarke

  "As you ask may you skate

  In the dark, for one more hour."
• The Class Game - Mary Casey

  "Or is it because my hands are stained with toil?

  Instead of soft lily-white with perfume and oil?"
• The Class Game - Mary Casey

  "I can talk posh like some"
• The Class Game - Mary Casey

  "An I'm proud of the class that I come from."
• The Class Game - Mary Casey

  "How can you tell what class I'm from?

  .....

  Why do you care what class I'm from?"
• What were they like? - Denise Levertov

  "1) Did the people of Viet Nam

  use lanterns of stone?"
• What were they like? - Denise Levertov

  "1) Sir, their light hearts turned to stone.

  It is not remembered whether in gardens

  stone lanterns illuminated pleasant ways."
• What were they like? - Denise Levertov

  "2)Perhaps they gathered once to delight in blossom,

  but after their children were killed

  there were no more buds."
• What were they like? - Denise Levertov

  "Who can say? It is silent now."
• Half-caste - John Agard

  "Excuse me

  Standing on one leg

  I'm half-caste"
• Half-caste - John Agard

  "an mix a black key

  wid a white key

  is a half-caste symphony"
• Half-caste - John Agard

  "yu mean when light an shadow

  mix in de sky

  is a half-caste weather

  ....

  england weather"
• Half-caste - John Agard

  "wid de whole of yu eye

  an wid de whole of yu ear

  an wid de whole of yu mind"
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  "Half a league, half a league,

  Half a league onward,

  All in the valley of Death"
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  "Into the valley of Death

  Rode the six hundred."

  ....

  "Then they rode back, but not

  Not the six hundred."

  ....

  "All that was left of them,

  Left of six hundred."
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  "Cannon to right of them,

  Cannon to left of them,

  Cannon in front of them

  Volley'd and thunder'd;"
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  "Boldly they rode and well,

  Into the jaws of Death,

  Into the mouth of Hell

  Rode the six hundred."
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  "Flash'd all their sabres bare,

  Flash'd as they turn'd in air

  Sabring the gunners there,

  Charging an army, while

  All the world wonder'd:"
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  "Honour the charge

  they made!

  Honour the Light Brigade,

  Noble six hundred!"
• No Problem - Benjamin Zephaniah

  "I am not de problem"
• No Problem - Benjamin Zephaniah

  "I am born academic

  But dey got me on de run

  Now I am branded athletic"
• No Problem - Benjamin Zephaniah

  "I can teach yu of Timbuktu

  I can do more dan dance,"
• No Problem - Benjamin Zephaniah

  "Yu put me in a pigeon hole

  But I am versatile

  These conditions may affect me"