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somethingdarkerAdmiral:
Where the Admiral gazes down - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Archer:
While applying lipstick with an archer's precision - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Armada.
Army.
Assassin/Assassination.
Battalion.
Brigade:
That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
Unblest by the brigades of spring - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
He's an overpass light brigade soldier - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author
Captain.
Cavalry:
Under the feet of the ocean cavalry - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"
Which bravely wait the charge of Winter's cavalry - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"
Cohort.
Crew.
Deserter:
Deserter from the great autumn army - Linda Pastan "Repetitions: After Van Gogh: 1. Yellow"
Dragoon:
The heavy dragoons of the mind - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
Enemy.
Fleet.
Foe.
General.
Guerrilla:
His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
Infantry:
Ugly short infantry of the mind - Ernest Hemingway "Mitraigliatrice"
The craven infantry of roaches - Jamaal May "Things That Break"
Insurgent.
Legion.
Lookout:
Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Marshal:
Marshalled armies in the silent air - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"
Mercenary:
Outposts filled with Saturn's mercenaries - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"
Militia:
Dark militia of the southern shore - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Musketeer:
Three musketeers of faithful following - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"
Navy:
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Navy blue around a fake significance - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"
Officer:
Swarms of Officers to harass our people - Tracy K. Smith "Declaration"
Phalanx:
A phalanx of swift song made - Louis Golding "Bird, Bird, Bird"
Crowded close in serried phalanx - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
So could Corruption's phalanx rest composed - Philo "The Tribute"
Platoon:
The ghosts of my platoon - Lou Barrett "Two Poets and a Physician: 1918"
Patrol.
Rear Guard:
The rear guard of my own brutal defeat - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
Regiment.
Scout.
Sentinel.
Sentry.
Sergeant:
The stubborn sergeant men call Pride - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Daybreak is a drill sergeant - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"
Sniper.
Soldier.
Spy.
Squad:
Her sunrise scattering squads of shadows - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"
Squadron.
Standard-Bearer:
The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Terrorist:
Tools of a terrorist undertaking - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"
Troop.
Vanguard:
Made inquiry of the king's vanguard - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Comes through the blood of the vanguards who dreamed - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"
The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
The fading moon and the vanguard of the sun - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"
Sent their misty vanguard creeping - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"
Veteran:
Superior is the veteran, if with courage inspired - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
They the veteran's voice obey - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Veteran of sheer drops and near misses - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
War-Lord:
The sins of all war-lords burn his heart - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
Warrior.
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Where the Admiral gazes down - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Archer:
While applying lipstick with an archer's precision - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Armada.
Army.
Assassin/Assassination.
Battalion.
Brigade:
That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
Unblest by the brigades of spring - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
He's an overpass light brigade soldier - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author
Captain.
Cavalry:
Under the feet of the ocean cavalry - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"
Which bravely wait the charge of Winter's cavalry - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"
Cohort.
Crew.
Deserter:
Deserter from the great autumn army - Linda Pastan "Repetitions: After Van Gogh: 1. Yellow"
Dragoon:
The heavy dragoons of the mind - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
Enemy.
Fleet.
Foe.
General.
Guerrilla:
His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
Infantry:
Ugly short infantry of the mind - Ernest Hemingway "Mitraigliatrice"
The craven infantry of roaches - Jamaal May "Things That Break"
Insurgent.
Legion.
Lookout:
Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Marshal:
Marshalled armies in the silent air - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"
Mercenary:
Outposts filled with Saturn's mercenaries - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"
Militia:
Dark militia of the southern shore - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Musketeer:
Three musketeers of faithful following - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"
Navy:
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Navy blue around a fake significance - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"
Officer:
Swarms of Officers to harass our people - Tracy K. Smith "Declaration"
Phalanx:
A phalanx of swift song made - Louis Golding "Bird, Bird, Bird"
Crowded close in serried phalanx - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
So could Corruption's phalanx rest composed - Philo "The Tribute"
Platoon:
The ghosts of my platoon - Lou Barrett "Two Poets and a Physician: 1918"
Patrol.
Rear Guard:
The rear guard of my own brutal defeat - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
Regiment.
Scout.
Sentinel.
Sentry.
Sergeant:
The stubborn sergeant men call Pride - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Daybreak is a drill sergeant - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"
Sniper.
Soldier.
Spy.
Squad:
Her sunrise scattering squads of shadows - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"
Squadron.
Standard-Bearer:
The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Terrorist:
Tools of a terrorist undertaking - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"
Troop.
Vanguard:
Made inquiry of the king's vanguard - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Comes through the blood of the vanguards who dreamed - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"
The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
The fading moon and the vanguard of the sun - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"
Sent their misty vanguard creeping - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"
Veteran:
Superior is the veteran, if with courage inspired - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
They the veteran's voice obey - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Veteran of sheer drops and near misses - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
War-Lord:
The sins of all war-lords burn his heart - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
Warrior.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
