Death & Dying

Requiem III

by Ivor Gurney 1890–1937

From Severn & Somme (1917)

Death & Dying

Pour out your bounty, moon of radiant shining
On all this shattered flesh, these quiet forms;
For these were slain, so strangely still reclining,
In the noblest cause was ever waged with arms.

MLA

Gurney, Ivor. “Requiem III.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gurney/75/.

Chicago

Gurney, Ivor. “Requiem III.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gurney/75/.

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