Arms and the Boy 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; in it, he portrays the loss of innocence of a child in the midst of war. Thousands like the boy are drawn into the battlefield, to the tormenting visitations of war. <poem>"Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood"</poem> It seems a wonder that a boy familiar with sticks and stones holds bayonets in the same hands and learns the coldness of death.
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