Byzantine Rage

Two hundred ships, eight thousand men,
Sailed to plunder, again and again.
Calabria's coast, Apulia's shore,
Tarentum assaulted, and nations tore.

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War poet whose visceral, anti-war verse exposed the horrors of trench warfare; killed one week before Armistice.

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