Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ANARCHONISM OF WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men, cripples, womens' tears Last Line: If such things can be on earth? Subject(s): War | ||||||||
Dead men, cripples, women's tears, Blight and waste of years on years, Debt and want and hunger's pangs, Cruelty's rapacious fangs, Wounds and lingering disease, These, and even worse than these -- Sages, statesmen, Christian hearts, Where are all your boasted arts, Where your reason, where your laws, Where the love that binds and draws, What is all your vaunting worth, If such things can be on earth? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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