Maybe a year ago I was watching a documentary on the History channel (I think). It was about Russia’s role in WWII. They read a poem whose topic was death and war. All I remember, apart from the fact that I liked it, is that there is a line in it like
“no trains or aeroplanes come and go from that place” (yes, they pronounced it aero-planes in the British fashion)
I think the poem was originally in Russian. I did all the usual Googling for the line, fragments of it, and “poem, war, russia” and associated concepts. Nothing useful. Anyone know this poem or who it is by?
OK, I forgot to mention that I seem to recall that this was a modern Russian poem. Probably from the Communist period and conveyed a more or less secular view of death (probably why it got through the Soviet censors, good proletarian literature and all that) There was also a mention of trains and cars I think so it might have been
“no trains or aeroplanes, no automobiles come and go from that place.”
I wish I could remember it better 
http://www.litera.ru:8080/stixiya/themes/war.html
Did you run across this site? It’s in Russian, I know. I ran it through http://www.freetranslation.com and there are a few promising entries under Anna <Russian last name I don’t understand> and Olga <Russian last name I don’t understand but different from the first one>. You’ll have to copy the shortcuts for each poem and translate them individually if you use FreeTranslation.com, though.
Good luck. I hope this helped, if only a little.