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… steeples resound, And we lie under the ground. Oh, soldiers, saluted afar By them that had seen your star, In … conquest and freedom and pride Remember your friends that died. Amid rejoicing and song Remember, my lads, how long, … of God. British literature British poetry war death soldiers World War I By A. E. Housman …
Poetry
… blood. In Holland, they bloom everywhere, behind colonials, across pools of wheat, near prints of wolves— in 1635, … the bulbs deeper, they might bloom longer. But mostly they die each year. They forget how to turn away from shade. …
Criticism
… Constant anger is good fodder for emotional combustion, so it’s no wonder that we were suddenly gifted … the story is narrated by a host of voices and freewheeling points of view that give it the feel of a frenetic communal … revolution, gathering content for a podcast, magazine, and website. They and a pack of others—some Ph.D. dropouts, some …
Poetry
… an envelope I had taken to Germany for my mother before she died— She didn’t remember the jays, which had come to her feeder in this country. Didn’t remember their …
Poetry
… to be shipped to American troops with the label “U.S.” Soldiers joked that it stood for Uncle Sam, and Troy is still … the possibilities of the nation’s future. The proud accomplishments of the city’s beginnings stand in stark … that rusted and ruined northern part of New York State but also what the region has come to stand for. In street …
Fiction
… are chill and coarse. He had thought himself such a good soldier these past three months, had taken to the army as if … friends, admirers. It helped that he was generous with his comrades, teaching them his mother’s tricks: dipping a rag … some poetry, something about a panther in a cage— Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe / Und hinter tausend Stäben …