Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city ... or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselve...s to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves--there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it?--are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help--can you face him honestly?).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still, I'm much happier here, really in it than I've been for an age. People don't hate much at the front; there's no one to hate,... except the poor devils across the way, whom they [the French soldiers] know to be as miserable as themselves. They don't talk hypocritical bosh about the beauty & manliness of war: they feel in their souls that if they weren't cowards they would have ended the thing long ago--by going home, where they want to be. And lastly and best, they don't jabber about atrocities--of course, everyone commits them--though about one story in a million that reaches our blessed Benighted States is true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,... And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As easy mayst thou fall A drop of water in the breaking gulf,... And take unmingled thence that drop again, Without addition or diminishing, As take from me thyself and not me too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb-of-grace.... Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen In the remembrance of a weeping queen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes... Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,... An eye like Mars, to threaten and command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »