The Lanawn Shee
(Belgium, July 1917)Powdered and perfumed the full bee ( Read more... )

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Reed, Henry. "Naming of Parts." New Statesman and Nation 24, no. 598 (8 August 1942): 92 (.pdf).

LESSONS OF THE WAR

To Alan Michell
Vixi duellis nuper idoneus
Et militavi non sine gloria
I. NAMING OF PARTSTo-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday ( Read more... )

Originally posted by duathir at Margaret Atwood, 'Sekhmet the Lion-headed Goddess of War'
Sekhmet, the Lion-Headed Goddess of War, Violent Storms, Pestilence, and Recovery from Illness, Contemplates the Desert in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was the sort of man ( Read more... )

Someone pointed this out to me, and I thought duathir and others interested in WWI might also like to take a look:

Today we gathered in the beautiful hamlet of Meavy in Devon, in the rain, for the unveiling of the war memorial that now has young Kitty Trevelyan’s name on it. Kitty went to France in WW1 and was employed as a civilian worker with Army ( Read more... )

Five Souls

First Soul

I was a peasant of the Polish plain;
I left my plough because the message ran:-
Russia, in danger, needed every man
To save her from the Teuton; and was slain.
I gave my life for freedom--This I know
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Second SoulI was a Tyrolese, a mountaineer ( Read more... )

118. The Jewish Conscript

By Florence Kiper Frank

There are nearly a quarter of a million Jews in the Czar’s army alone.-Newspaper clipping.

THEY have dressed me up in a soldier’s dress,


With a rifle in my hand,


And have sent me bravely forth to shoot


My own in a foreign land.


Oh, many shall die ( Read more... )

Sundown
When the wounded in hospital came to die, said a British officer,
their last request in many cases was for the prayer,
"Now I lay me down to sleep."

When my sun of life is low,
When the dewy shadows creep,
Say for me before I go,
“Now I lay me down to sleep.”

I am at the journey's end ( Read more... )

But A Short Time To LiveOur little hour - how swift it flies ( Read more... )