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A War Song To Englishmen - Poem by William Blake

Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war,
Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb;
Th' Angel of Fate turns them with mighty hands,
And casts them out upon the darken'd earth!
Prepare, prepare!

Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare
Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
Prepare, prepare!

Whose fatal scroll is that? Methinks 'tis mine!
Why sinks my heart, why faltereth my tongue?
Had I three lives, I'd die in such a cause,
And rise, with ghosts, over the well-fought field.
Prepare, prepare!

The arrows of Almighty God are drawn!
Angels of Death stand in the louring heavens!
Thousands of souls must seek the realms of light,
And walk together on the clouds of heaven!
Prepare, prepare!

Soldiers, prepare! Our cause is Heaven's cause;
Soldiers, prepare! Be worthy of our cause:
Prepare to meet our fathers in the sky:
Prepare, O troops, that are to fall to-day!
Prepare, prepare!

Alfred shall smile, and make his harp rejoice;
The Norman William, and the learnèd Clerk,
And Lion Heart, and black-brow'd Edward, with
His loyal queen, shall rise, and welcome us!
Prepare, prepare!


Comments about A War Song To Englishmen by William Blake

  • Gold Star - 5,733 Points Mazloom Gill (7/24/2017 3:02:00 AM)

    very nice and peculiar, I suggest you to read my poem war reality. thanks (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie - 17 Points Jim Morris (6/21/2017 9:08:00 AM)

    Poted by a student in my class: I had to read some poems for an English project. I found this one by William Blake, but I didn't realize that he was an English poet in the 1700s. I like how this describes the battlefield and what might be going through the soldier's mind. They run into battle willing to die for their country, and that is very honorable. Because they know it's for a good cause and they will go to a better place if they die. I thank all those who risk their lives and die for their country. (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie - 0 Points Andy Valdes (5/12/2017 11:41:00 AM)

    I found this poem very inspirational. It tells you a lot of the things the soldiers are going through. They experience many things like death and victory. Overall I'm very grateful for veterans and the service they provide us with! (Report) Reply

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Poems About War

  1. 1. A War Song To Englishmen , William Blake
  2. 2. The Next War , Wilfred Owen
  3. 3. Sekhmet, The Lion-Headed Goddess Of War , Margaret Atwood
  4. 4. A Prayer In Time Of War , Alfred Noyes
  5. 5. Love And War , Ovid
  6. 6. War Is Never Over , Cecil L. Harrison
  7. 7. From A German War Primer , Bertolt Brecht
  8. 8. In California During The Gulf War , Denise Levertov
  9. 9. Lessons Of The War , Henry Reed
  10. 10. War Some More , Sandra Osborne
  11. 11. Nefarious War , Li Po
  12. 12. Repression Of War Experience , Siegfried Sassoon
  13. 13. Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind , Stephen Crane
  14. 14. Two Poems From The War , Archibald MacLeish
  15. 15. A Meditation In Time Of War , William Butler Yeats
  16. 16. On Receiving News Of The War , Isaac Rosenberg
  17. 17. Meditations In Time Of Civil War , William Butler Yeats
  18. 18. On Being Asked For A War Poem , William Butler Yeats
  19. 19. Spring In War Time , Sara Teasdale
  20. 20. War Of The Worlds , john tiong chunghoo
  21. 21. Woman And War , Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  22. 22. Sonnet 46: Mine Eye And Heart Are At A M.. , William Shakespeare
  23. 23. Memorial Day For The War Dead , Yehuda Amichai
  24. 24. The Next War , Robert Graves
  25. 25. War-Music , Henry Van Dyke
  26. 26. Dusk In War Time , Sara Teasdale
  27. 27. The War Films , Sir Henry Newbolt
  28. 28. War Music [down On Your Knees, Achilles] , Christopher Logue
  29. 29. At The War Office, London (Affixing The .. , Thomas Hardy
  30. 30. To Lucasta On Going To The War - For The.. , Robert Graves
  31. 31. War...War...War... , joe yourmom
  32. 32. Song-Books Of The War , Siegfried Sassoon
  33. 33. War Profit Litany , Allen Ginsberg
  34. 34. War Song , John Davidson
  35. 35. At The War Office, London. , Thomas Hardy
  36. 36. A Date With An Anti-War Protester , Chuck Audette
  37. 37. The Holy War , Rudyard Kipling
  38. 38. There Was Crimson Clash Of War. , Stephen Crane
  39. 39. War Song , Thomas Moore
  40. 40. - Love Is War! , Ronberge (anno primo)
  41. 41. Man's Civil War , Robert Southwell
  42. 42. Tell Brave Deeds Of War , Stephen Crane
  43. 43. War , Charles Wagner
  44. 44. Fortune Of War , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  45. 45. The War After The War , John Le Gay Brereton
  46. 46. War And Peace , Franklin Pierce Adams
  47. 47. On A Line From Valéry (The Gulf War) , Carolyn Kizer
  48. 48. The Black Hawk War Of The Artists , Vachel Lindsay
  49. 49. They Gave Us A War That Nobody Wanted , Patrick O'Donnell
  50. 50. A Radical War Song , Thomas Babbington Macaulay

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