 The House is crammed : tier beyond tier they grin And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks Of harlots shrill the chorus, drunk with din, ' We're sure the Kaiser loves the dear old Tanks ! ' " I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls, Lurching to...  The Quarterly Review - Page 391edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
 | 1918 - 1012 pages
...and pleasure making cheap capital of their experiences, they will break out into savage resentment. The house is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin And...tank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes and ' Home, sweet home' — And there 'd be no more jokes in music-halls, To mock the riddled corpses... | |
 | 1917 - 444 pages
...in ' Blighters,' where the sentimentality of London is contrasted with the reality in Flanders : j' The House is crammed : tier beyond tier they grin...; " We're sure the Kaiser loves the dear old Tanks I " I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes, or " Home, sweet Home... | |
 | Siegfried Sassoon - 1918 - 134 pages
...And still you whisper of the war, and find Sour jokes for all those horrors left behind. "Blighters" THE House is crammed : tier beyond tier they grin...stalls, Lurching to ragtime tunes, or "Home, sweet Home,"And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. At Carnoy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1918 - 692 pages
...platitude, is well-balanced by the same poet's almost vindictive cameo of a London music-hall in war-time. ' I'd like to see a tank come down the stalls, Lurching...to rag-time tunes, or " Home, sweet Home," — And there' d be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.' The reflective... | |
 | W. L. George - 1919 - 456 pages
...lashes himself into righteous fury at the idea of the people at home in music-halls, as he read aloud: " I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls, Lurching...music-halls, To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume." Sir Hugh thought: "Yes, he's right. It's very beautiful. We shall want all that hate of war to make... | |
 | W. L. George - 1919 - 468 pages
...lashes himself into righteous fury at the idea of the people at home in music-halls, as he read aloud: " I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes, or ' Home, Sweet Home ', And there 'd be no more jokes in music-halls, To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume." Sir Hugh thought:... | |
 | W. L. George - 1919 - 454 pages
...see a Tank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes, or ' Home, Sweet Home ', And there 'd be no more jokes in music-halls, To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume." Sir Hugh thought: "Yes, he's right. It's very beautiful. We shall want all that hate of war to make... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1920 - 256 pages
...war-time. His hatred of the jesting civilian attains passionate expression in the poem called Blighters: The House is crammed : tier beyond tier they grin...Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. Mr. Sassoon himself laughs on occasion, but it is the laughter of a man being driven insane by an insane... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - 358 pages
...home, in the music-halls for example. Perhaps the supreme example of this is to be found in Blighters : The House is crammed : tier beyond tier they grin...music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. In a poem, entitled Stretcher Case, " dedicated to Edward Marsh," he depicts the impression which England... | |
 | Casey Albert Wood - 1920 - 382 pages
...you whisper of the war, and find Sour jokes for all those horrors left behind. 184 III ' Blighters' ""THE House is crammed : tier beyond tier they grin...to rag-time tunes, or ' Home, sweet Home,' — And ihere'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. SIEGFRIED SASSOON.... | |
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