Arms and the Boy The title alludes to the opening words of Virgil's Latin epic poem the "Aeneid": "Arma virumque cano" ("Of arms and the man I sing"). The poem is written in heroic couplets, in which successive pairs of lines have related ending sounds. In this instance, the final words do not rhyme; for example, "blade" and "blood" in the quotation. This is a scheme called half rhyme. Text of the Poem at Poetry Foundation Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I;
Thomas Grey (poet) the Blind), Grey sent them 200 copies of his “effusions” which were then printed in Braille type. Grey was the instigator of the erection of the Tweedmouth War Memorial (on which 111 men are commemorated) and founder member of promoting a fund for the remaining money needed for the erection of the Memorial in July 1921. Thomas Grey (poet) Thomas Grey (1863-1928) was an English poet who wrote about his local area of the Scottish Borders, the First World War and rail transport. Thomas Grey was born on 16 September 1863 at Shoreswood, Norham, in Northumberland. He worked on trains