• The Poetry of George Percy Tyler

    Originating in conflict with inspiration from the courage and committment of ordinary men to serve God, King, and Country, at the time of greatest crisis becoming known as The Great War.

    These word pictures and imagined images take take us not only in thought and visual imagry, but in emotion for the hearts of the people who dedicated themselves to defending the way of life of future generations in their homeland.

    O hark, ye sons of Mars, brave souls in steel, Whose hearts like hammers ‘gainst thy breast doth...
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    Act I, Scene I — A sodden trench, the moon doth hide Behind a shroud of smoke, as if it cried....
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    We came not home with trumpets in the gale, Nor banners bright, nor songs upon our breath; But...
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    When trumpet's call came at morning first light, And duty's voice did stir the hearts of men,...
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    Month unto month we dwell 'neath sodden clay, Where rain and ruin share the soldier’s bed; The...
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    When Zeppelins o’er Albion's rooftops soar, And sirens wail 'fore midnight's bloody blast, The...
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    I. Upon the Field Returned From Flanders' mud we come with limping tread, ...
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    I. The Call to Arms When first the war was whispered on the breeze, ...
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