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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War | |||
APOLLO mourns another Parthenon In ruins! Is the God of Love awake? And we must we behold the world's heart break For peace and beauty ravished, and look on Dispassionate? Rheims' gloried fane is gone: Not by a planet's rupture, nor the quake Of subterranean titans, but to slake The vengeance of a Goth Napoleon. O Time, let not the anguish numb or pall Of that remembrance! Let no callous heal Our world-wound, till our kindled pities call The parliament of nations, and repeal The vows of war. Till then, pain keep us thrall! More bitter than to battle is to feel. | 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 A CHILD AT THE WICKET by PERCY MACKAYE |
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