Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I TOO HATE WAR, by IDA FLOOD DODGE


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I TOO HATE WAR, by                    
Last Line: "more deadly far than death. I too ""hate war."
Subject(s): Discontent; Hate; Dissatisfaction


I too "hate war," for I have understood
The sacredness of life. I know unrest
Of burdened days, then travail, and the blest
Content that follows throes of motherhood.
I too "hate war," for I have known glad youth,
Their eager, restless, hopeful hearts; each year
I see them in each changing class appear,
The while I guide them in the ways of truth.
I pray that not again our land may see
A world made mad . . . that disillusionment
From carnage and from chaos never more
May hold us with a pall of atrophy,
Of frenzied calm, satiric discontent
More deadly far than death. I too "hate war."





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