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Dulce Et Decorum Est

Obviously this is Wilfred Owen's Poem, I love it so much i want to post it here.

Dulce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.


Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.


In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.


If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.


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Written September 15th, 2006

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  • onealone
    December 14, 2006
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    Pulchra est!

  • Nihima
    September 20, 2006
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    lol you'll probably find this poem on the site anyway. Especially if you check out oldpoetry.com or something! Who knows ¬_¬ but yeah it's a lushy poem.


  • darkspiritonline
    September 16, 2006
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    wonderful

    o.0......................................holy crud muffins............................That's a great discription....and well written......^_^
    That was fanstatic...and a decent read. ^_^