Wild Geese

Wild Geese may refer to:

  • Wild Geese (song), a war poem by Walter Flex, a later song is popular in airborne units
  • Wild Geese, a 1996 poem by Mary Oliver
  • Wild Geese (soldiers), Irish soldiers who served in European armies after being exiled from Ireland
    • The Wild Geese Memorial erected at Rockingham, Western Australia to commemorate the Catalpa rescue of Fenian prisoners
  • The Wild Geese, a 1978 British mercenary war film
  • Code Name: Wild Geese a 1980 Italian mercenary war film
  • The Wild Geese (novel), a 1911 Japanese novel written by Mori Ogai
  • Wild Geese (birds), birds with a wide range in the Old World
  • Wild Geese (novel), a 1925 Canadian novel (by Martha Ostenso)
  • Wild Geese (video ballad), a 2006 English video ballad
  • Wild Geese GAA

Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or geese:

    “The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,—others merely sensible, as the phrase is,—others prophetic.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)