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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE NECROPHILE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poet's Biography First Line: With love are you gone mad, o lover of france Last Line: "not yours the human vow: ""till death us part!" Subject(s): Disdain; France; Marriage; World War I; Scorn; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War | |||
(After reading of the affectionate desire of Germany "to get closer to France," expressed by the German Secretary of State to the British Ambassador at Berlin, as published in the British White Papers. With love are you gone mad, O lover of France, That you should be embracing with your arms Her gory body for the gore that warms Only a monster in his dalliance? Alas! she is alive with her alarms, Unwilling yet for the enraged romance. Assault her sacredness of Paris, lance Her flank with such a wound as has its charms. For you who want for your obscene amours The body of a soul that is not yours, For you who want a wound to enter by, For you who want a corpse upon your heart. Coupling with France if France would only die, Not yours the human vow: "Till death us part!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN VOYAGE A L'INFINI by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG |
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