History & Politics

Gallipoli

by John William Streets 1885–1916

From The Undying Splendour (1917)

History & Politics

Upon the margin of a rugged shore
There is a spot now barren, desolate,
A place of graves, sodden with human gore
That Time will hallow, Memory consecrate.

There lie the ashes of the mighty dead,
The youth who lit with flame Obscurity,
Fought true for Freedom, won thro' rain of lead
Undying fame, their immortality.

The stranger wand'ring when the war is over,
The ploughman there driving his coulter deep,
The husbandman who golden harvests reap—
From hill and ravine, from each plain and cover
Will hear a shout, see phantoms on the marge,
See men again making a deathless charge.

MLA

Streets, John William. “Gallipoli.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/streets/24/.

Chicago

Streets, John William. “Gallipoli.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/streets/24/.

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