Rome's past glory, a fading gleam,
A gilded cage, a troubled dream.
The eagle's shadow, once so vast,
Now shrinks beneath a Barbarian blast.
A gilded cage, a troubled dream.
The eagle's shadow, once so vast,
Now shrinks beneath a Barbarian blast.
War poet whose visceral, anti-war verse exposed the horrors of trench warfare; killed one week before Armistice.