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Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)

Champs d'Honneur


              1Soldiers never do die well;
              2          Crosses mark the places --
              3Wooden crosses where they fell,
              4          Stuck above their faces.
              5Soldiers pitch and cough and twitch --
              6          All the world roars red and black;
              7Soldiers smother in a ditch,
              8          Choking through the whole attack.

Notes

8] Gerogiannis (Complete Poems, p. 135, notes this reference to World War I gas attacks.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories & Ten Poems (Dijon: Maurice Darantiere, 1923): 54. Facsimile edition by Contact Publishing, 1977. PS 3515 E37A15 Robarts Library.
First publication date: January 1923
Publication date note: Poetry 21.iv (January 1923): 193-95.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1999.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/17

Composition date: 1920 - 1921
Composition date note: Chicago (Complete Poems, ed. Nicholas Gerogiannis, rev. edn. [1992]: 27)
Rhyme: ababcdcd


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