Rursery Rhymes (Abner Cosens Poems)
Ten Little Slackers Ten little slackers standing in a line, One went to U. S., then there were ...
Abner Cosens Poems on Man (22 Poems)
The Canadian Army (Abner Cosens Poems)
The news, "the Old Land's in it," Stirred us one August morn, Then waited not a minute ...
The Loyal Blacks (Abner Cosens Poems)
Three years ago the war began, Three years ago to-day The Empire's call to every man ...
Bedlam (Abner Cosens Poems)
The world is mad, my masters, The poet had the facts To prove this sweeping statement, In ...
Fritz Is Learning (Abner Cosens Poems)
Vile I vait in his hospital yard For dose holes in mine back to fill up, Den ...
Fritz Philosophizes (Abner Cosens Poems)
Since I'm held in his hospital up, Mine poor back full mit shrapnel und lead Ven I ...
France To Columbia (Abner Cosens Poems)
Columbia, my sister, Republic great and free, When Liberty was threatened I looked in vain ...
The Trench That Fritz Built (Abner Cosens Poems)
This is the trench that Fritz built. This is the Hun who lay in the trench that Fritz built. ...
Fritz Admits Ignorance (Abner Cosens Poems)
Dis old vorld is von uncertain blace, Dere is so many tings ve don't know, Ven ve ...
Motes And Beams (Abner Cosens Poems)
We condemn, with hot curses, the Hun For his piracy, perjury, pride, For his nameless atrocities done, ...
The Trees (Abner Cosens Poems)
The wind that through the forest blows May scatter leaves and blossoms wide. The parent tree but ...
‘Twas Ever Thus (Abner Cosens Poems)
O preacher, prophet, martyr, sage, Whose message falls on heedless ears, Bethink that unrepentant age ...
Troubles In The Trenches (Abner Cosens Poems)
When Slav and Russ had raised a fuss, And sent their Czar a-kiting, Said Givinski to Blatherski, ...
Unemployed (Abner Cosens Poems)
I haven't any way, sir, to earn my daily bread; Give me a job, I pray, sir, my children ...
The Slacker’s Son (Abner Cosens Poems)
The teacher says at school, dad, that twenty years ago The Kaiser tried to rule, dad, and plunged the ...
When The Game Isn’t Fair (Abner Cosens Poems)
As we struggle up life's hillside Where the road is hard and long, Weak, discouraged, tired, lonely, ...
Satan’s Soliloquy (Abner Cosens Poems)
Hell hath enlarged its borders, While Satan sits in state, And gives his servants orders ...
Slackers (Abner Cosens Poems)
We condemn, as selfish slackers, Those not willing to enlist To oppose the Prussian Kultur ...
Blasted Hopes (Abner Cosens Poems)
We hoped to end our troubled days Far from the maddening strife, Erstwhile to chortle roundelays ...
Ego (Abner Cosens Poems)
The ego of the human race, The sordid love of self, We see it in life's hurried ...
Hunting The Were-Wolf (Abner Cosens Poems)
The jungle law is broken; From forest, field and plain, The beasts and birds have spoken, ...
Has The World Gone Mad? (Abner Cosens Poems)
What a lack of reason In this earthly throng! In and out of season Everything ...