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 wild beasts, sparrows pecking the llamas’ grain,
    Pigeons settling on the bears’ bread, buzzards
    Tearing the meat the flies have clouded. . . .”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    “Not a flock of wild geese cackles over our town, but it to some extent unsettles the value of real estate here, and, if I were a broker, I should probably take that disturbance into account.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)