"Ode to War" is a satirical

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 poem on war

War

War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...

 written in 1794 by Reverend John Whitehouse of St. John's College

St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....

, Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

. It is part of the work Odes Moral and Descriptive.

Poem

Dread Offspring of Tartarian birth,

Whose nodding crest is stain'd with gore,

Whom to some giant-son of Earth,

Strife in strong pangs of childbed bore;

0 War! fierce monster, homicide,

Who marchest on with hideous stride,

Shaking thy spear distilling blood;

Bellona thee, in angry mood,

Taught proud Ambition's spoils to win,

Amidst the loud, conflicting din

Of arms, where Discord's gorgon-featured form

High shakes her flaming torch amidst the martial storm.



Stern God! wolf-hearted, and accursed,

Foster'd by Power, by Rapine nursed,

Oppression ever in thy train,

For hapless man prepares her chain:

A thousand vulture-forms beside

Stalk on before thee; bloated Pride,

Thick-eyed Revenge, his soul on fire,

And Slaughter breathing threatenings dire,

Tumult, and Rage, and Fury fell,

And Cruelty, the imp of hell,

Her heart of adamant! and arm'd her hand

With iron hooks, and cords, and Desolation's brand.



There, where the Battle loudest roars,

Where wide the impurpled deluge pours,

And ghastly Death, his thousands slain,

Whirls his swift chariot o'er the plain,

Rapt in wild Horror's frantic fit,

'Midst the dire scene thou lov'st to sit,

To catch some wretch's parting sigh,

To mark the dimly-glazing eye,

The face into contortions thrown,

Convuls'd: the deep, deep-lengthening groan,

The frequent sob, the agonizing smart,

And nature's dread release, the pang that rends the heart.



Avaunt, from Albion's isle! not there

Thy arms, and maddening car prepare,

Nor bid thy crimson banners fly

Terrific, through the troubled sky;

But stay thee in thy wild career;

Lay by thy glittering shield and spear,

Thy polished casque, and nodding crest,

And let thy sable steeds have rest:

At length, the work of slaughter close,

And give to Europe's sons repose,

Bid the hoarse clangors of the trumpet cease,

And smooth thy wrinkled front to meet the smiles of Peace.

Other Ode to War's

Mark R Slaughter wrote another poem entitled Ode to War in 1957.
"Ode to War" is a satirical

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 poem on war

War

War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...

 written in 1794 by Reverend John Whitehouse of St. John's College

St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....

, Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

. It is part of the work Odes Moral and Descriptive.http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/warpoetry/1794/1794_17.html

Poem

Dread Offspring of Tartarian birth,

Whose nodding crest is stain'd with gore,

Whom to some giant-son of Earth,

Strife in strong pangs of childbed bore;

0 War! fierce monster, homicide,

Who marchest on with hideous stride,

Shaking thy spear distilling blood;

Bellona thee, in angry mood,

Taught proud Ambition's spoils to win,

Amidst the loud, conflicting din

Of arms, where Discord's gorgon-featured form

High shakes her flaming torch amidst the martial storm.



Stern God! wolf-hearted, and accursed,

Foster'd by Power, by Rapine nursed,

Oppression ever in thy train,

For hapless man prepares her chain:

A thousand vulture-forms beside

Stalk on before thee; bloated Pride,

Thick-eyed Revenge, his soul on fire,

And Slaughter breathing threatenings dire,

Tumult, and Rage, and Fury fell,

And Cruelty, the imp of hell,

Her heart of adamant! and arm'd her hand

With iron hooks, and cords, and Desolation's brand.



There, where the Battle loudest roars,

Where wide the impurpled deluge pours,

And ghastly Death, his thousands slain,

Whirls his swift chariot o'er the plain,

Rapt in wild Horror's frantic fit,

'Midst the dire scene thou lov'st to sit,

To catch some wretch's parting sigh,

To mark the dimly-glazing eye,

The face into contortions thrown,

Convuls'd: the deep, deep-lengthening groan,

The frequent sob, the agonizing smart,

And nature's dread release, the pang that rends the heart.



Avaunt, from Albion's isle! not there

Thy arms, and maddening car prepare,

Nor bid thy crimson banners fly

Terrific, through the troubled sky;

But stay thee in thy wild career;

Lay by thy glittering shield and spear,

Thy polished casque, and nodding crest,

And let thy sable steeds have rest:

At length, the work of slaughter close,

And give to Europe's sons repose,

Bid the hoarse clangors of the trumpet cease,

And smooth thy wrinkled front to meet the smiles of Peace.

Other Ode to War's

Mark R Slaughter wrote another poem entitled Ode to War in 1957.
"Ode to War" is a satirical

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 poem on war

War

War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...

 written in 1794 by Reverend John Whitehouse of St. John's College

St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....

, Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

. It is part of the work Odes Moral and Descriptive.http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/warpoetry/1794/1794_17.html

Poem

Dread Offspring of Tartarian birth,

Whose nodding crest is stain'd with gore,

Whom to some giant-son of Earth,

Strife in strong pangs of childbed bore;

0 War! fierce monster, homicide,

Who marchest on with hideous stride,

Shaking thy spear distilling blood;

Bellona thee, in angry mood,

Taught proud Ambition's spoils to win,

Amidst the loud, conflicting din

Of arms, where Discord's gorgon-featured form

High shakes her flaming torch amidst the martial storm.



Stern God! wolf-hearted, and accursed,

Foster'd by Power, by Rapine nursed,

Oppression ever in thy train,

For hapless man prepares her chain:

A thousand vulture-forms beside

Stalk on before thee; bloated Pride,

Thick-eyed Revenge, his soul on fire,

And Slaughter breathing threatenings dire,

Tumult, and Rage, and Fury fell,

And Cruelty, the imp of hell,

Her heart of adamant! and arm'd her hand

With iron hooks, and cords, and Desolation's brand.



There, where the Battle loudest roars,

Where wide the impurpled deluge pours,

And ghastly Death, his thousands slain,

Whirls his swift chariot o'er the plain,

Rapt in wild Horror's frantic fit,

'Midst the dire scene thou lov'st to sit,

To catch some wretch's parting sigh,

To mark the dimly-glazing eye,

The face into contortions thrown,

Convuls'd: the deep, deep-lengthening groan,

The frequent sob, the agonizing smart,

And nature's dread release, the pang that rends the heart.



Avaunt, from Albion's isle! not there

Thy arms, and maddening car prepare,

Nor bid thy crimson banners fly

Terrific, through the troubled sky;

But stay thee in thy wild career;

Lay by thy glittering shield and spear,

Thy polished casque, and nodding crest,

And let thy sable steeds have rest:

At length, the work of slaughter close,

And give to Europe's sons repose,

Bid the hoarse clangors of the trumpet cease,

And smooth thy wrinkled front to meet the smiles of Peace.

Other Ode to War's

Mark R Slaughter wrote another poem entitled Ode to War in 1957.http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-war-2/ Brenda Munday Gifford also wrote one in reference to the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

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