==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Walter Scott: Selections on war ==== Walter ScottThe Bride of Lammermoor “…men are never so ready for peace as after war.” *** Religion, the mother of peace, was, in those days of discord, so much misconstrued and mistaken, that her […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Wildred Owen: Selections on war ==== Wilfred OwenDulce et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backsAnd towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Brent Dow AllinsonDulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Vivere! Awake, arise, behold! my people, far, –Climbing the steel-gray east, the dawn of warFlowers – a crimson poppy in whose breathPoisoned enchantment and seductive deathCommingle in an opiate ravishment.Bethink […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== J. C. SquireThe March I heard a voice that cried, “Make way for those who died!”And all the coloured crowd like ghosts at morning fled;And down the waiting road, rank after rank there strode,In mute and measured march a […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairThe Book of Life Because I perceive that civilization is impossible without sympathy, and because sympathy makes it impossible for me to be happy while my fellow men are ignorant and degraded, […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Joseph Dana MillerThe Hymn of Hate And this I hate – not men, nor flag, nor race,But only War with its wild, grinning face.God strike it till its eyes be blind as nightAnd all its members tremble with […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== James Anthony FroudeThe Science of History Gibbon believed that the era of conquerors was at an end. Had he lived out the full life of man, he would have seen Europe at the feet of Napoleon. But a few […]
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Vachel Lindsay: Selections on war Vachel Lindsay: Above the Battle’s Front Vachel Lindsay: Speak Now for Peace Vachel Lindsay: Strange Easter. I cannot think of the resurrection but of the cannon fodder. Vachel Lindsay: Tolstoi, that angel of peace Vachel Lindsay: […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Brent Dow AllinsonOvertones To one whose listening spirit is attuneWith beauty there are overtones of meaning:Glory and strength and joy in the unhewnUnconquerable hills, and in a leaningStorm-ravaged pine above the summer seaNorn-melodies of ancient hope and yearning,Patience […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Erwin MarkhamA Song of Peace(At the end of the World War) Now, above the thunder of the drums,Hark to a mighty soundA cry out of the ground:Let there be no more battles: field and floodAre weary of battle […]
