War and Love

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War and Love (1919)
by Richard Aldington
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War and Love

By Richard Aldington

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WAR AND LOVE
(1915-1918)


BY
RICHARD ALDINGTON



Boston
The Four Seas Company
1919

Copyright, 1919, by
The Four Seas Company

The Four Seas Press
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

A few of these poems have appeared before in books and periodicals, as follows: Some Imagist Poets, 1917 (Houghton Mifflin Co., & Constable); New Paths, (1918) C. W. Beaumont, London); Reverie, 1917, (Privately printed, Cleveland, Ohio); The Dial; The Seven Arts; The Egoist.

Contents
Part I
Page
Foreword 5
Proem 13
Vicarious Atonement 14
Leave-Taking 15
Bondage 16
A Moment's Interlude 18
Dawn 19
Captive 20
Prayer 21
On the March 22
Our Hands 23
Fatigues 24
The Wine-Cup 25
Sorcery of Words 27
The Lover 28
April Lieder 29
Genius Loci 30
Three Little Girls 31
Living Sepulchres 32
Machine Guns 33
Picket I, II 34
The Faun Complains 35
Trench Idyll 36
Battle-Field 38
"Ivy and Violet …" 39
A Ruined House 40
Time's Changes 41
In the Trenches, I, II 42
A Village 44
Barrage 46
Bombardment 47
A Young Tree 48
Disdain 49
An Earth Goddess 50
H. S. R. 52
E. T. 53
Soliloquy, I 54
Soliloquy, II 55
Daughter of Zeus 56
Defeat 57
Civilians 60
Doubt 61
Terror 63
Apathy 65
The Blood of the Young Men 68
Part II
Prelude 73
An Old Song 74
Song 75
Song for Her 76
Possession 77
An Interlude 78
Before Parting 79
Prayer 81
"I Do Not Even Scorn..." 83
Absence 85
Her Mouth 86
Daybreak 87
Sleep 89
A Soldier's Song 90
Nights of Love 91
Gain 92
Postlude 93
Epilogue 94

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1919, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1962, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 61 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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