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With barb-wire and bayonets bristling - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Speared mangos with bayonets - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"

Unless this light becomes a bayonet of sound - Joy Harjo "Mercy"

Why the intrepid sun touched the bayonet - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Beneath the bayonets' slant rain - D.H. Lawrence "Guards!"

And blesses all his bayonets - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Where the bayonets gleam and the red tides flow - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]


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