Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Casualties of war War

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

Current Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

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Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

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Topic
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Author

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Howards End
Medium
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Language
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Time
1910 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

Another quote about War

Laws are silent in time of war.

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Pro Milone

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Topic
Rule of law Law Legal theory Political theory War
Speaker
Cicero
Source
Pro Milone
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
Latin
Time
52 BC 50s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [In Defense of Milo]. c. 52 BC, sect. 11.

Current Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [For Milo], translated by D. H. Berry. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 11.

Another quote from 1918

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
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Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

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Topic
Dying for one's country Self-sacrifice Patriotism War

Author

Wilfred Owen
Source
Dulce et Decorum Est
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1918 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 0
Original Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." Poems by Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

Current Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.