If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,– My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of "Dulce et Decorum est", written 1917, published posthumously this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

<div style="float:right; border:2px solid black; padding:10px; margin:0 0 1em 1em; text-align:left; background:white"> [Fire and Ice](https://bliptext.com/articles/fire-and-ice-poem) by [Robert Frost](https://bliptext.com/articles/robert-frost) Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. -- first published in December in [Harper's Magazine](https://bliptext.com/articles/harper-s-magazine)

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<div style="float:right; border:2px solid black; padding:10px; margin:0 0 1em 1em; text-align:left; background:tan"> From Betty by [Lola Ridge](https://bliptext.com/articles/lola-ridge) My doll Janie has no waist and her body is like a tub with feet on it. Sometimes I beat her but I always kiss her afterwards. When I have kissed all the paint off her body I shall tie a ribbon about it so she shan't look shabby. But it must be blue-- it mustn't be pink-- pink shows the dirt on her face that won't wash off. # [E.E. Cummings' unusual style can be seen in his poem "Buffalo Bill's/ defunct" from the January 1920 issue use of Dust | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/TheDialJan1920-Cummingspoem.jpg]

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