AUGUST 1914
What in our lives is burnt
In the fire of this?
The heart’s dear granary?
The much we shall miss?
Three lives hath one life –
Iron, honey, gold,
The gold, the honey gone –
Left is the hard and cold.
Iron are our lives
Molten right through our youth.
A burnt space through ripe fields
A fair mouth’s broken tooth.
Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) was an English poet of the First World War. His Poems from the Trenches are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War. READ MORE…
