A poem by Alan Dugan
Because of the unaccountable spirit of the troops
oh we were marched as we were never marched before
and flanked them off from home. Stupid Meade
was after them, head on to tail, but we convinced
him, finally, to flank, flank, cut off their head.
He finally understood, the idiot, and got a fort
named after him, for wisdom. He probably thought
Lee would conquer Washington from Appomattox
if he, Meade, should march his infantry behind
him, Lee. Ah well, the unaccountable spirit of the troops
triumphed, Meade got his fort, Grant got his presidency,
Sherman got his motto, what was it? War is heck?, Lee got a military school
for the education of young Southern gentlemen, and the Union
Army was taken over by Southern noncommissioned officers
in the wars against the Indians to the west. I know all
about this, I know who won, I served under them
for three hundred and fifty years in World War II,
just long enough not to be called a rookie but a veteran,
and realized the rank and order of my enemies:
first, the West Point officers; second, the red-neck sergeants;
third, the Nazis and perhaps the Japanese. I won
all of these wars as a private soldier, for a while,
and am happy to have done so: without me
Hitler and Hirohito would he ruling the world
instead of America and Russia, but I still will not
drive through Georgia with New York license plates.
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- Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States. by Walt Whitman
- My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn
- Владимир Высоцкий – День-деньской я с тобой, за тобой
- Crystal Gazer by Sylvia Plath
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- Jeane’s Wedden Day In Mornen by William Barnes
- “My soul is sunk in all–suffusing shame” poem – Alfred Austin
- Иван Барков – Венерино оружие
- Good Hours by Robert Frost
- Алишер Навои – Моя безумная душа в обломках
- Meditations In Time Of Civil War by William Butler Yeats
- Philip Levine – Philip Levine
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- A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
External links
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Poems in English
- Алексей Толстой – Рука Алкида тяжела
- Алексей Толстой – Рондо
- Алексей Толстой – Растянулся на просторе
- Алексей Толстой – Пустой дом
- Алексей Толстой – Пусть тот, чья честь не без укора
- Алексей Толстой – Против течения
- Алексей Толстой – Прогулка с подругой жизни
- Алексей Ржевский – Сонет, три разные системы заключающий
- Алексей Ржевский – Рондо (И всякий так живет)
- Алексей Ржевский – Рок все теперь свершил, надежды больше нет
- Алексей Ржевский – Прости, Москва
- Алексей Ржевский – Портрет
- Алексей Ржевский – Ода Императору Петру Феодоровичу
- Алексей Ржевский – Как я стал знать взор твой
- Алексей Ржевский – Долго ль прельщаться
- Алексей Ржевский стихи: читать все стихотворения, поэмы поэта Алексей Ржевский – Поэзия на Poetry Monster
- Алексей Плещеев – Знакомые звуки, чудесные звуки
- Алексей Плещеев – Ёлка в школе
- Алексей Плещеев – Весна (Песни жаворонков снова)
- Алексей Плещеев – Весна
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.