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A Summer Sunrise
James Whitcomb Riley
With fretted spire and parapet,
And gilded mosque and minaret,
That glitter in the crimson...
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A Working Party
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
Of piling bags along the parapet,
He thought how slow time went, stamping his feet,
And blowing on his fingers, pinched with...
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A Working Party
Siegfried Sassoon
Of piling bags along the parapet,
He thought how slow time went, stamping his feet
And blowing on his fingers, pinched with...
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Arms And The Man. - Nelson And The Gunners.
James Barron Hope
Far fell grim Ruin's furious rain,
O'er parapet and mast,
And riding on the thunder-swell
Far flew the shot, far flew the shell
Red Havoc on...
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Break of Day in the Trenches
Isaac Rosenberg
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet's poppy
To stick behind my...
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Cagnes
Mathilde Blind
We leant together o'er the old parapet,
And saw the sun go...
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Commemoration
Sir Henry Newbolt
Or lining the parapet wall,
And some were in glorious battle, or great and rich,
Or throned in a college hall:
And...
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Comrades An Episode
Robert Nichols
The parapet was...
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Constantinople - The Muezzin
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
He turns around the parapet,
Black-robed against the marble tower;
His singing gains or loses power
In pacing round...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
My thrall, my prisoner, on the parapet,
I was...
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Gold and Grey
Harry Crosby
Where bullets slap against the parapet,
And barbéd wire crucifies the...
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Grace
Ralph Waldo Emerson
These scorned bondmen were my...
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He fell among Thieves
Sir Henry Newbolt
The runner beside him, the stand by the parapet wall,
The distant tape, and the crowd roaring between,
His own name over...
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In Nunhead Cemetary
Charlotte Mary Mew
We said 'Not yet
Across our low stone parapet
Will the quick shadows of the sparrows...
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In the Trenches
Isaac Rosenberg
From the parapet’s ledge,
Two bright red poppies
That winked...
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Insomnia
James Thomson - Bysshe Vanolis
Against a bridge's stony parapet
I leaned, and gazed into the waters black;
And marked an angry morning red and wet
Beneath a...
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Le poète
Guillaume Apollinaire
S'appuyant simplement contre le...
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Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire
Alfred Austin
As when sceptre, pomp, and power,
Threatening parapet and tower,
Warrior grim and maiden gay
Fought and laughed the hours away:
Captains, Cardinals,...
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Margrave
Robinson Jeffers
I lean on the broad worn stones of the parapet top
And the stones and my hands that touch them reel...
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Mezzo Cammin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some tower of song with lofty...
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Morning Land
George Essex Evans
Whose eyes are set on the parapet and the heights of Morning...
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Nocturne
Archibald MacLeish
Marble of the parapet,

Of open eyelids of a child behind
The crooked glimmer of the windown...
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Over The Parapet
Robert William Service
And over the parapet gleams...
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San Sebastian
Thomas Hardy
And along the...
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Sword Blades And Poppy Seed
Amy Lowell
And on the bridge's parapet
I leant, while pallidly there set
A dim, discouraged, worn-out...
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