They Also Serve

Veteran’s Day is about honoring all who have served, and bearing in mind the concluding sentiment in the last line of John Milton’s Sonnet on His Blindness...

“They also serve who only stand and wait”

...we’ve enlarged our collection of Poems of War and Remembrance to include poems written by the women who stayed home in war-time:

• “Mother and Poet” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• “The Soldier” and “Armistice” by Sophie Jewett
• “Patterns” and “A Ballad of Footmen” by Amy Lowell
• “I Sit and Sew” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• “The Cenotaph” by Charlotte Mary Mew