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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. 2. The Woman that lifted up her Voice
  2. The Gospel Women. 3. The Mother of Zebedee's Children
  3. A Memorial of Africa
  4. The Gospel Women. 4. The Syrophenician Woman
  5. The Gospel Women. 6. The Woman whom Satan had bound


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