 | 1921 - 192 pages
...sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues...glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mart. I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH . . I HAVE a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade,... | |
 | 1921 - 192 pages
...him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues — My friend, you would not tell with... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1922 - 494 pages
...him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as thp cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, — My friend, you would not tell with... | |
 | 1924 - 132 pages
...sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,...some desperate glory, The old Lie : Dulce et decorum eft Pro patrid mori. PARABLE OF THE OLD MEN AND THE YOUNG So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went... | |
 | 1924 - 128 pages
...sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,...children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie : Duke et decorum eft Pro patria mart. PARABLE OF THE OLD MEN AND THE YOUNG So Abram rose, and clave... | |
 | 1924 - 136 pages
...him in, And watch the white eyes wilting in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, — My friend, you would not tell with... | |
 | Harold Stauffer Bender - 1928 - 304 pages
...sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues...children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Duke et decorum est Pro patria mori." At times Owen gives way to cutting sarcasm when writing on the... | |
 | Carl Van Doren, Mark Van Doren - 1925 - 432 pages
...that it exists in itself ; were it otherwise, the pity would not have been so powerfully expressed. If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues — My friend, you would not tell with... | |
 | Panthea Reid Broughton - 1999 - 252 pages
...participants at least. Wilfred Owen addressed his reader: My friend, [if you had experienced what I have] you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Duke et decorum est Pro patria mori. Ezra Pound insisted in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: "Died some, pro... | |
 | Brett Gary - 1999 - 348 pages
...country." He used mustard gas metaphors to capture the poison of such promises on "innocent tongues": If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, — My friend, you would not tell with... | |
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If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, — My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some... 
