 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1915 - 70 pages
...leave the holly for another year — Its berries are too red. THE ILLUSION OF WAR THE ILLUSION OF WAR WAR I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. Without... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 978 pages
...conclusions of mankind") Jllusion of BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE (American poet, bom in England, 1866) WAR I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. Without... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1915 - 446 pages
...sense. A poet, Richard Le Gallienne, has described the deceit of the emotion in exquisite verse : — War I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife! And I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. The... | |
 | William Melvin Bell, bp. William Melvin Bell - 1915 - 408 pages
...in the right way, and regard war as Richard Le Gallienne has wonderfully expressed it in his poem: "WAR. "I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street, 148 Of drum and fife, and I forget Broken, old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 984 pages
...conclusions of mankind") Illu0ion of GMar BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE (American poet, born in England, 1866) WAR I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching strrvt Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole... | |
 | 1916 - 244 pages
...cost factors are included and the best books at prices that permit a fair publisher's profit." WAR War I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the...and I forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. -TiTf Without a soul — save this bright drink Of heady music, sweet as hell... | |
 | 1917 - 188 pages
...war, what a glorious game !" " Sin and shame, sin and shame." Maurice Hewlett. THE ILLUSION OF WAR. WAR I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. Without... | |
 | Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 pages
...beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. ILLUSION OF WAR RICHARD LE GALLIENNH WAR I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife ! And I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. Without... | |
 | Clarence Reidenbach - 1918 - 156 pages
...history of wars. The attractiveness of war is expressed in the following verse of Richard Le Gallienne: "War I abhor And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife! and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul." There... | |
 | Charmian London - 1921 - 462 pages
...thrilling to the spectacle, Jack could not forget, and quoted from Le Gallienne's "The Illusion of War": " 'War, I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. ' "... | |
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WAR I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife; and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. 
