Category: Poetry

The Book of the Homeless (Le livre des sans-foyer)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 [Editor]; Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924 [Contributor]; Barrès, Maurice, 1862-1923 [Contributor]; Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 [Contributor]; Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 [Contributor]; Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 [Contributor]; Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 1861-1942 [Contributor]; Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 [Contributor]; Bonnat, Léon Joseph Florentin, 1833-1922 [Contributor]; Bourget, Paul, 1852-1935 [Contributor]; Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915 [Contributor]; Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955 [Contributor]; Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 [Contributor]; Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 [Contributor]; Dagnan-Bouveret, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean, 1852-1929 [Contributor]; Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924 [Contributor]; Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 [Contributor]; Gay, Walter, 1856-1937 [Contributor]; Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904 [Contributor]; Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944 [Contributor]; Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 [Contributor]; Grant, Robert, 1852-1940 [Contributor]; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 [Contributor]; Hervieu, Paul, 1857-1915 [Contributor]; Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 [Contributor]; Humbert‏ , Georges-Louis‏, 1862-1921 [Contributor]; Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 [Contributor]; James, Henry, 1843-1916 [Contributor]; Jammes, Francis, 1868-1938 [Contributor]; Joffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire, 1852-1931 [Contributor]; Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 [Contributor]; Martin, Edward Sandford, 1856-1939 [Contributor]; Ménard, E. René (Emile René), 1862-1930 [Contributor]; Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922 [Contributor]; Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 [Contributor]; More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937 [Contributor]; Noailles, Anna de, 1876-1933 [Contributor]; Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922 [Contributor]; Perry, Lilla Cabot [Contributor]; Régnier, Henri de, 1864-1936 [Contributor]; Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919 [Contributor]; Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950 [Contributor]; Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 [Contributor]; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 [Contributor]; Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918 [Contributor]; Rysselberghe, Théo van, 1862-1926 [Contributor]; Santayana, George, 1863-1952 [Contributor]; Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 [Contributor]; Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 [Contributor]; Suarès, André, 1868-1948 [Contributor]; Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925 [Contributor]; Trench, Herbert, 1865-1923 [Contributor]; Verhaeren, Emile, 1855-1916 [Contributor]; Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920 [Contributor]; Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921 [Contributor]; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 [Contributor]; Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa), 1856-1945 [Contributor]; Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 [Contributor]· 10 chapters· 38,817 words

It is not only a pleasure but a duty to write the introduction which Mrs. Wharton requests for “The Book of the Homeless.” At the outset of this war I said that hideous though the atrocities had been and dreadful though the suffering, yet we must not believe that these atrocit...

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9. Part 9

Si l’on pouvait suivre des yeux ce qui se passe dans le monde idéal qui nous domine de toutes parts, on constaterait sans nul doute que rien ne se perd sur les champs de bataill...

5. Part 5

In Liverpool Street, as usual too, through the double gates, a continuous line of taxicabs glided down the inclined approach and up again, like an endless chain of dredger-bucke...

8. Part 8

There comes back to me out of the distant past an impression of the citizen soldier at once in his collective grouping and in his impaired, his more or less war-worn state, whic...

6. Part 6

There have been other wars! Wars not inferior in the greatness of the stake, and in the fierce animosity of feelings. During that one which was finished a hundred years ago, it...

4. Part 4

Je reprends ma route, et je le retrouve cet “il le faut” du sergent, ce “puisqu’il faut çà” de l’hôtelière, comme écrit dans tous les aspects de cet horizon. C’est le moment de...

7. Part 7

We abound, while the war progresses, with examples of the calculated ferocity of the Germans, of their lack of humanity, of their scorn of the generous convention of behaviour....

10. Part 10

Voici que le soir tombe. Les jeunes filles de l’Ouest viennent sur la prairie; et viennent aussi les jeunes femmes de la douce terre. Elles sont deux chœurs qui se rencontrent d...

2. Part 2

LAURENCE BINYON RUPERT BROOKE PAUL CLAUDEL JEAN COCTEAU ROBERT GRANT THOMAS HARDY W. D. HOWELLS FRANCIS JAMMES ALICE MEYNELL COMTESSE DE NOAILLES JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY LILLA...

3. Part 3

Gashed hands of children who cry out for bread-- While as the flames from sacred places rise The Blonde Beast, hideous, with blood-shot eyes And obscene gesture mutilates the de...

1. Part 1

It is not only a pleasure but a duty to write the introduction which Mrs. Wharton requests for “The Book of the Homeless.” At the outset of this war I said that hideous though t...