The dark uniforms of the men were so coated with dust from the incessant wrestling of the two armies that the regiment almost seemed a part of the clay bank which shielded them from the shells. On the top of the hill …
A Prisoner in the Caucasus by Leo Tolstoy An officer named Zhílin was serving in the army in the Caucasus. One day he received a letter from home. It was from his mother, who wrote: ‘I am getting old, and should like …
Mildred Orme, seated in the snuggest corner of the big front porch of the Kraummer farmhouse, was as content as a girl need hope to be. This was no such farm as one reads about in humorous fiction. Here were swelling …
A Sight in camp in the day-break grey and dim,As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,As slow I walk in the cool fresh air, the path near by the hospitaltent,Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out the…
We had goldfish and they circled around and aroundIn the bowl on the table near the heavy drapesCovering the picture window andMy mother, always smiling, wanting us allTo be happy, told me, “Be happy henry!”And she wa…
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled,That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,But still lies pointed as it plowed the dust.If we who sight along it round the world,See nothing worthy to have been its mark,It…