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Poem by George MacDonald


Home from the Wars


A tattered soldier, gone the glow and gloss,
With wounds half healed, and sorely trembling knee,
Homeward I come, to claim no victory-cross:
I only faced the foe, and did not flee.



George MacDonald


George MacDonald's other poems:
  1. The Gospel Women. 16. The Woman That Was a Sinner
  2. The Gospel Women. 3. The Mother of Zebedee's Children
  3. The Gospel Women. 7. The Woman Who Came behind Him in the Crowd
  4. The Gospel Women. 13. The Woman in the Temple
  5. The Gospel Women. 1. The Mother Mary


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