History & Politics
War
From From an Outpost, and Other Poems (1917)
History & Politics
Where war has left its wake of whitened bone.
Soft stems of summer grass shall wave again,
And all the blood that war has ever strewn
Is but a passing stain.
Cite this poem
MLA
Coulson, Leslie. “War.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coulson/4/.
Chicago
Coulson, Leslie. “War.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coulson/4/.
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