Yvor Winters

Here you will find the Poem Night Of Battle of poet Yvor Winters

Night Of Battle

Europe: 1944 
as regarded from a great distance


Impersonal the aim 
Where giant movements tend; 
Each man appears the same; 
Friend vanishes from friend. 


In the long path of lead 
That changes place like light 
No shape of hand or head 
Means anything tonight. 


Only the common will 
For which explosion spoke; 
And stiff on field and hill 
The dark blood of the folk.