posted on 2024-05-02, 18:52authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr"> Chaos! that coincides with this militant<br> purpose.<br> Chaos! the heart of this earnest malignancy.<br> Chaos! that helps, chaos that gives to shatter<br> Mind-wrought, mind-unimagining energies<br> For topless ill, of dynamite and iron.<br> Soulless logic, inventive enginery.<br> Now you have got the peace-faring Lusitania,<br> Germany's gift---all earth they would give thee,<br> Chaos.</p>
The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate. As published in Rosenberg, Isaac; Bottomley, Gordon [ed.]; Harding, Denys [ed.], The Collected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg. London: Chatto and Windus, 1977. Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted.