Charles Granville. The Bayonet Charge. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Bayonet Charge

By Charles Granville


From “Poems of the Hour” A FOREST of steel leaves
Glints in the sun
And shimmers in the wind—
The thing’s begun!

A sea of faces set	5
Grimly to kill;
A pack of wolves that rush
To take their fill;

A yell that rends the air
And strikes the sky,	10
And stirs the dead who low
In silence lie;

A sense of clashing fray,
A bloody sun;
A mist of reeking blades—	15
And it is done!