“All he says is, he says he hasn’t got a word to say against colored people as long as they keep their place. He’s always doing things for them–giving them clothes and I don’t know what all. The only thing he says, he says he wouldn’t sit down at the table with one [...]
“By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying–
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.”
“Should they whisper false of you,
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and storm and swear they lie.”
“you have a whole new life–I have half an old one Your life is so far away from mine, I don’t see how they’re ever going to come back together…I get strained and –frightened, I guess, and I say things I could cut my throat for saying. But you know what I really [...]
“do you think I want to do this? Do you think I want to be away from you? Do you think that this is what I thought I’d be doing now? In the years–well, in the years when we ought to be together…I can’t talk about it. I can’t even think [...]
“What’s the matter with you anyway? Be your age, why don’t you? Have a little drink and snap out of it.”
“And what are you doing for the children of America?”
“They haven’t the slightest respect for a uniform; they won’t even have mercy on a war groom. He can hear their refreshing little whispers about, ‘Well, I suppose they’ll let anything into the army, these days, just to encourage recruiting.’”
War Song
“Soldier, in a curious land
All across a swaying sea,
Take her smile and lift her hand–
Have no guilt of me
Soldier, when were soldiers true?
If she’s kind [...]