John Alexander Mccrae Great Poems
- 1. The Unconquered Dead
". . . defeated, with great loss."
Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame
... - 2. Disarmament
One spake amid the nations, "Let us cease
From darkening with strife the fair World's light,
We who are great in war be great in peace.
No longer let us plead the cause by might."
... - 3. The Captain
1797
Here all the day she swings from tide to tide,
... - 4. Unsolved
Amid my books I lived the hurrying years,
Disdaining kinship with my fellow man;
Alike to me were human smiles and tears,
I cared not whither Earth's great life-stream ran,
... - 5. Equality
I saw a King, who spent his life to weave
Into a nation all his great heart thought,
Unsatisfied until he should achieve
The grand ideal that his manhood sought;
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