Wilfred Edward Salter Owen Earth Poems

• 1. Futility
  Move him into the sun--
  Gently its touch awoke him once,
  At home, whispering of fields unsown.
  Always it woke him, even in France,
  ...
• 2. The Show
  My soul looked down from a vague height with Death,
  As unremembering how I rose or why,
  And saw a sad land, weak with sweats of dearth,
  Gray, cratered like the moon with hollow woe,
  ...
• 3. Greater Love
  Red lips are not so red
  As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
  Kindness of wooed and wooer
  Seems shame to their love pure.
  ...
• 4. A Terre
  (Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.)
  
  
  
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• 5. Strange Meeting *another Version*
  Earth's wheels run oiled with blood. Forget we that.
  Let us lie down and dig ourselves in thought.
  Beauty is yours and you have mastery,
  Wisdom is mine, and I have mystery.
  ...
• 6. The End
  After the blast of lightning from the east,
  The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne,
  After the drums of time have rolled and ceased
  And from the bronze west long retreat is blown,
  ...

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