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:

    “That air would disappear from the whole earth in time, perhaps; but long after his day. He did not know just when it had become so necessary to him, but he had come back to die in exile for the sake of it. Something soft and wild and free, something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning!”
    —Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    “They yelleden as fiendes doon in hell;
    The duckes cryden as men would them quell;
    The geese for feare flewen over the trees;
    Out of the hive came the swarm of bees.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)