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		<title>Walter Scott: The groans and screams of men formed a fearful chorus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Walter Scott: Selections on war ==== Walter ScottCastle Dangerous &#8220;…we martial men ought to make our petitions with peculiar penitence to Heaven for mercy, when we reflect on the various miseries which the nature of our profession compels us to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Louise Morgan Sill: After Battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war Louise Morgan Sill: I am the Hell-god, War! ==== Louise Morgan SillAfter Battle I. Wounded Bare floors, but not too clean;White beds, but not too white &#8211;I saw blood-stains on one of the sheets.He [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: Modern wars waged over global commercial rivalries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairThe Book of Life There was a time when wars were caused by national and racial hatreds. There are still enough of these venerable prejudices left in the world, but no student [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: Not for the God of battles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyThe Soldier Speaks If courage thrives on reeking slaughter,And he who kills is lordOf beauty and of loving laughter &#8211;Gird on me a sword!If death be dearest comrade proven,If life be coward&#8217;s mate,If [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brent Dow Allinson: What have you done with my legions, Caesar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Brent Dow AllinsonTo Caesar &#8220;What have you done with my legions, Caesar?”A “disillusioned” nation waits reply:Was it for nought, or for a tinselled lieMy dazzled youth were taught to kill and marGod’s fair green earth? Was it the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>W. L. George: &#8220;Not good business for the soul of man.&#8221;Anatole France hated war.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Anatole France: Selections on war ==== W. L. GeorgeAnatole France He believes that even military men are growing more peaceful, that they want “a pompous, magnificent, shining peace, proud as war.” *** (In Penguin Island) There is a revolution (obviously [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Richard Aldington: Fate might have been merciful</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Richard Aldington: Selections on war ==== Richard AldingtonA Young TreeFor J. W. There are so few trees here, so few young trees,That Fate might have been mercifulAnd turned aside the shock of flameThat strewed your branches on the torn-up earth.Ending [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Helene Mullins: Where all of men&#8217;s fears of hell come true</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 13:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war ==== Helene MullinsCall to Arms Shoulder your guns and march away,O brave young men and don&#8217;t ask why.Give up your homes for soldiers&#8217; payAnd a treacherous life &#8216;neath an unreal sky. Forget what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vachel Lindsay: Certainly I hate war with all my soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Vachel Lindsay: Selections on war ==== Vachel LindsayLetter to Eleanor Dougherty*April 4, 1917 My heart is very sad tonight about the war. I have not the heart to challenge Wilson. I voted for him and cannot regret it &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>E. Merrill Root: Army of the million ghosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 13:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== E. Merrill RootSoldiers Solid mass and heavy might,On they march to where the brightCrimson flowers of battle bloomAnd bear the iron fruit of gloom. They are flesh and bone and blood:They trample very earth to mud:Earth is shaken [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>William Noel Hodgson: The Hills Shall Bring Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== William Noel Hodgson*&#8220;The Hills Shall Bring Peace&#8221; Hills of my heart, so ancient and wise,In the stainless azure of rainwashed skiesYou are sleeping now, and the murmur of beesThat traffic in golden merchandiseDrifts like the surf-song from faery seas. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walter Scott: Men are never so ready for peace as after war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Walter Scott: Selections on war ==== Walter ScottThe Bride of Lammermoor &#8220;…men are never so ready for peace as after war.&#8221; *** Religion, the mother of peace, was, in those days of discord, so much misconstrued and mistaken, that her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Wildred Owen: Selections on war ==== Wilfred OwenDulce et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backsAnd towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brent Dow Allinson: Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Vivere!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est ==== Brent Dow AllinsonDulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Vivere! Awake, arise, behold! my people, far, &#8211;Climbing the steel-gray east, the dawn of warFlowers &#8211; a crimson poppy in whose breathPoisoned enchantment and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>J. C. Squire: The march of the hundred thousand dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 13:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== J. C. SquireThe March I heard a voice that cried, &#8220;Make way for those who died!&#8221;And all the coloured crowd like ghosts at morning fled;And down the waiting road, rank after rank there strode,In mute and measured march a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: War can inflict on civilization more damage than it can endure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairThe Book of Life Because I perceive that civilization is impossible without sympathy, and because sympathy makes it impossible for me to be happy while my fellow men are ignorant and degraded, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Joseph Dana Miller: These I hate &#8211; war and its panoply, the lie that hides its ghastly mockery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 12:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Joseph Dana MillerThe Hymn of Hate And this I hate &#8211; not men, nor flag, nor race,But only War with its wild, grinning face.God strike it till its eyes be blind as nightAnd all its members tremble with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>James Anthony Froude: If they had known that war would result</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== James Anthony FroudeThe Science of History Gibbon believed that the era of conquerors was at an end. Had he lived out the full life of man, he would have seen Europe at the feet of Napoleon. But a few [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vachel Lindsay: Selections on war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 15:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Vachel Lindsay: Selections on war Vachel Lindsay: Above the Battle’s Front Vachel Lindsay: Certainly I hate war with all my soul Vachel Lindsay: Speak Now for&#160;Peace Vachel Lindsay: Strange Easter. I cannot think of the resurrection but of the cannon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brent Dow Allinson: To him when he beholds war’s desecration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Brent Dow AllinsonOvertones To one whose listening spirit is attuneWith beauty there are overtones of meaning:Glory and strength and joy in the unhewnUnconquerable hills, and in a leaningStorm-ravaged pine above the summer seaNorn-melodies of ancient hope and yearning,Patience [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Erwin Markham: A Song of Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Erwin MarkhamA Song of Peace(At the end of the World War) Now, above the thunder of the drums,Hark to a mighty soundA cry out of the ground:Let there be no more battles: field and floodAre weary of battle [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: I&#8217;ve never said a word against our soldiers. It&#8217;s the government I condemn for putting them to this, and the press for hounding on the government.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyThe Mob TALL YOUTH. Silence for the blasted traitor? A youth plays the concertina; there is laughter, then an abrupt silence. MORE. You shall have it in a nutshell! A SHOPBOY. [Flinging a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vincent Godfrey Burns: The March of the Ghosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Vincent Godfrey Burns: An Ex-Serviceman Makes a Vow Vincent Godfrey Burns: Hell à la mode ==== Vincent Godfrey BurnsThe March of the Ghosts Chattering, clattering, here they come!With a shrieking fife and a funeral drum.Some are headless and some are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Max Ehrmann: Peace Shall Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Max EhrmannPeace Shall Live The guns are still, the dead sleep on,The blind and crippled walk the streets,Bereavèd hearts bright colors don,Again the pulse of factories beats;Nightmares and grimy days have fled,Forgotten are the dead. Around the world [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Arthur Miller: Mars and Mammon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Arthur MillerAll My Sons Posted for fair use only. Keller: Well, that&#8217;s what a war does. I had two sons, now I got one. It changed all the tallies. In my day when you had sons it was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brent Dow Allinson: Harvard Declares War!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Brent Dow AllinsonHarvard Declares War! Hang out the flags!” the college president said,“The war we dreaded is at last declared!”…Crimson and white and bright arterial red &#8211;Hang out the valiant gonfalons that sharedWith Yale’s o’ersicklied blue the football [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Elinor Lennen: Poor piteous trophies of the war-god&#8217;s hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war ==== Elinor Lennen&#8216;No Quiet&#8217; At last, &#8216;All quiet on the western front&#8217;;No shrapnel singing fiercely as it came,Intent to blight and mutilate and maim;No big guns barking madly as their wont,Upon their fiendish [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: War and morality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairThe Book of Life What avails it if, when they are fully grown, we can think of nothing better to do with them than to take them by millions at a time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>For peace, against war: literary selections (M-Z)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For peace, against war: literary selections (A-L) For peace, against war: literary selections (M-Z) *** Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war Thomas Babington Macaulay: Drive for transatlantic dominion leads to endless wars, empty treasuries Thomas Babington Macaulay: Evil that man should live only by destroying and by exposing himself to be destroyed Thomas Babington Macaulay: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Richard Aldington: In the Trenches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Richard Aldington: Selections on war ==== Richard AldingtonIn the Trenches I Not that we are weary,Not that we fear,Not that we are lonelyThough never alone &#8211;Not these, not these destroy us;But that each rush and crashOf mortar and shell,Each cruel [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Laura Simmons: Munition Maker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war ==== Laura SimmonsMunition-Maker &#8216;And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment.&#8217; Alone, from your dim cell you shall look forth; behold and seeYour perfect work! How faultless all your engines&#8217; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brent Dow Allinson: Two Dreams. Let us wake to peace.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Brent Dow Allinson: Could warring men perceive this thy perfection ==== Brent Dow AllinsonTwo Dreams I fell asleep and dreamed, and dreaming sawThe gold of ripening meadows and the greenSweet-scented fields of Flanders, and the dunesThat roll, wind-rippled, to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Floyd Dell: The good old days have come back. Ah, the smell of blood!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Floyd DellA Long Time Ago THE OLD WOMAN: Why do you sit there, fool, and twang at that harp? There&#8217;s no occasion for making music. Nobody has been winning any battles. How long has it been since a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hermann Hagedorn: We are your sons and we are ghosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Hermann Hagedorn: Selections against war ==== Hermann HagedornA Boy in ArmorHe Speaks to the Gathered Nations Tremble, O World! Bow down! Cringe! Be afraid!You look on ghosts! Not one alone! Ten thousand!And yet again ten thousand, and againTen thousand, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alexander Posey: The dew, the bird more glorious than the conqueror, the bard of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Alexander PoseyThe Dew and the Bird There is more glory in a drop of dew,That shineth only for an hour,Than there is in the pomp of earth&#8217;s great KingsWithin the noonday of their power. There is more sweetness [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>George Meredith: We pray to be let live peacefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war George Meredith: Selections on peace and war ==== George MeredithOne of Our Conquerors Men will fight for almost anything they care to get or call their own, the pork-butcher said; and he praised Old England for avoiding war. *** Without challengeing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Robert Frost: War is for everyone, for children too</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Robert FrostThe BonfireExcerpt “If it scares you, what will it do to us?” “Scare you. But if you shrink from being scared,What would you say to war if it should come?That’s what for reasons I should like to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brent Dow Allinson: Could warring men perceive this thy perfection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Brent Dow Allinson: Two Dreams. Let us wake to peace. ==== Brent Dow AllinsonMoonlight in Boston I stand at twilight gazing from my window,The tall, green-shuttered housesOf the old quarter &#8211; subdued and reticent,Aloof as those who dwell within,Stand [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vachel Lindsay: Strange Easter. I cannot think of the resurrection but of the cannon fodder.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Vachel Lindsay: Selections on war ==== Vachel Lindsay To Harriet MoodyApril 8, 1917 It is as strange an Easter as the world has ever faced, and it is shameful not to realize its irony, and it will be a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>David Henry Wright: The Cruiser Philadelphia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== David Henry WrightThe Cruiser Philadelphia A mighty ship of war and named for thee,Penn&#8217;s great city of love. Was thy pure soilMeant thus? Is all in vain the Quaker&#8217;s toil?Is death the price we pay for liberty?O City [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: Murder is permitted if perpetrator dons a special uniform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairThe Book of Life Let us take, for a test, the Ten Commandments. These commandments were graven upon stone tablets some four thousand years ago, and are supposed to have been valid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Humbert Wolfe: Paused horror, hate and Hell a moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== Humbert WolfeA Thrush in the Trenches Suddenly he sang across the trenches,vivid in the fleeting hushas a star-shell through the smashed black branches,a more than English thrush. Suddenly he sang, and those who listenednor moved nor wondered, butheard, all [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: Is a man only to oppose war when it&#8217;s popular?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Nobel prize in literature recipients on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyThe Mob MORE. I&#8217;ve made no secret of my feelings all along. I&#8217;m against this war, and against the annexation we all know it will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>M. C. Sinclair: Peace is not upon the winds of spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== M. C. SinclairUpon the Wings of Spring (Written in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet) I feel the terror in the world tonight &#8211;Unbridled lust of power, and bridled lustMore cold but no less merciless. The dustOf perished [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: A Green Hill Far Away. Can wars, then, ever cease?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyA Green Hill Far Away (1919) Was it indeed only last March, or in another life, that I climbed this green hill on that day of dolor, the Sunday after the last great [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Josephine Preston Peabody: Whose strength is this you spill in war?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war Josephine Preston Peabody: Harvest Moon ==== Josephine Preston PeabodyHeritage &#8220;And if that men should cease from warWhat surety can there beOf hardihood and sovereigntyAnd might, so battled for?Whence shall a master draw his strengthAnd [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Oxenham: &#8220;I can imagine a World-Wide Women’s League for Peace&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== John Oxenham1914 It was Alma who said, out of the fulness of her heart and of much inevitable brooding over the matter: “You know, if the women of all the world would only say the word, and say it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>E. Merrill Root: We crucify Him still upon a cross of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war E. Merrill Root: And they died in what forgotten war? E. Merrill Root: Drill, like sheep with wolves’ fangs, meek to&#160;kill E. Merrill Root: Military drill. Murder’s witless&#160;marionettes. ==== E. Merrill RootStill the Cross Cavalry is a continentToday. AmericaIs [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vachel Lindsay: Above the Battle&#8217;s Front</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Vachel LindsayAbove the Battle&#8217;s Front St. Francis, Buddha, Tolstoi, and St. John &#8211;Friends, if you four, as pilgrims, hand in hand,Returned, the hate of earth once more to dare,And walked upon the water and the land, If you, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>E. J. Peterson, Jr: What youth discerns his shell-rocked tomb?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== E. J. Peterson, Jr.Our Dead We have forgotten them, thank God! They fell,And were forgotten. Now make way, make roomFor others. You know how. While the pale bloomOf youth is on them. Bands, flags, speeches! TellThem their country [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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