The Pride of Rome

Tarentum assaulted, trade's flow denied,
Agriculture halted, nowhere to hide.
Sailed back to Hellespont, with pirat's pride,
Calling them brethren, though oceans divide.

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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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