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Title A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 Editor George Herbert Clarke Year (copyright notice 1917) Publisher Hodder and Stoughton (copyright notice 1917) Address London Source djvu Progress Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated Pages   (key to Page Status) - - - - 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 - 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 - 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 - 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 - 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 - - - -

CONTENTS I. ENGLAND PAGE Sir Henry Newbolt The Vigil 43 John Galsworthy England to Free Men 44 Charles William Brodribb Expeditional 45 Lance-Corporal Francis Ledwidge Evening in England 46 C. Fox Smith Saint George of England 46 George Herbert Clarke Lines Written in Surrey, 1917 47 John Freeman Sweet England 48 Henry Lawson England Yet 50 Lieutenant Leonard Van Noppen "Burn up the World" 51 Lieutenant Leonard Van Noppen England 52 Rudyard Kipling "For all we have and are" 52 II. SCOTLAND Neil Munro Pipes in Arras 54 Neil Munro "Lochaber no More" 56 Isabel Westcott Harper Highland Night, 1715—1815—1915 56 III. IRELAND Norreys Jephson O'Conor Moira's Keening 58 Winifred M. Letts The Connaught Rangers 59 Lieutenant T. M. Kettle A Song of the Irish Armies 60 IV. CANADA Marjorie L. C. Pickthall Canada to England 62 Wilfred Campbell Langemarck 62 Will H. Ogilvie Canadians 66 V. AUSTRALASIA Archibald T. Strong Australia to England 67 C. Fox Smith Farewell to Anzac 67 Will H. Ogilvie Queenslanders 68 Ben Kendim The New Zealander 69 Henry Lawson Song of the Dardanelles 70 Henry Lawson Fighting Hard 72 VI. BELGIUM Laurence Binyon To the Belgians 74 Edith Wharton Belgium 75 Lieutenant Herbert Asquith A Flemish Village 76 Sir Owen Seaman To Belgium in Exile 76 Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Wife of Flanders 77 M. Forrest The Heroes 78 VII. FRANCE Cecil Chesterton France 79 Hilaire Belloc Sedan 80 Charlotte Holmes Crawford Vive la France! 80 Herbert Jones To France 82 Florence Earle Coates Place de la Concorde 82 John Finley The Valleys of the Blue Shrouds 84 Grace Ellery Channing Flower-Beds in the Tuileries 86 Henry Van Dyke The Name of France 87 VIII. AMERICA Robert Bridges To the United States of America 88 Vachel Lindsay Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight 88 John Helston "Advance, America!" 90 Morley Roberts To America 90 O. W. Firkins To America in War Time 91 Harry Kemp The New Ally 92 Rudyard Kipling The Choice 92 IX. GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA Helen Gray Cone A Chant of Love for England 94 Lieutenant Charles Langbridge Morgan To America 95 Maurice Hewlett The Fourth of July, 1776 96 Laurence Binyon The New World 96 Rowland Thirlmere Jimmy Doane 98 Alfred Noyes Princeton, May, 1917 100 X. ITALY Clinton Scollard Italy in Arms 103 Moray Dalton To Italy 105 George Edward Woodberry On the Italian Front, MCMXVI 105 XI. SERBIA, GREECE, AND ROUMANIA Lance-Corporal Francis Ledwidge Autumn Evening in Serbia 106 Florence Earle Coates Serbia 106 Lance-Corporal Francis Ledwidge The Homecoming of the Sheep 107 George Edward Woodberry Roumania 108 XII. LIÈGE Stephen Phillips The Kaiser and Belgium 109 Dana Burnet The Battle of Liège 109 XIII. YPRES Lord Gorell Ypres 113 W. S. S. Lyon Easter at Ypres, 1915 115 Margaret L. Woods The First Battle of Ypres 116 George Herbert Clarke Ruins 119 XIV. VERDUN Laurence Binyon Men of Verdun 120 Eden Phillpotts Verdun 121 Patrick R. Chalmers Guns of Verdun 122 XV. OXFORD Winifred M. Letts The Spires of Oxford 123 Laurence Binyon Oxford in War-Time 124 Christopher Morley To the Oxford Men in the War 125 W. Snow The Ghosts of Oxford 127 Mildred Huxley Subalterns 127 Tertius van Dyke Oxford revisited in War-Time 128 Lieutenant Ernest Alan Mackintosh Oxford from the Trenches 130 XVI. REFLECTIONS Thomas Hardy "Men who March away" 131 Thomas Hardy In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" 132 Thomas Hardy Then and Now 133 John Masefield The Choice 133 Alfred Noyes The Searchlights 134 John Galsworthy The Soldier Speaks 136 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson The Ragged Stone 137 Sir Henry Newbolt The War Films 137 A. E. Gods of War 138 A. E. Shadows and Lights 140 George Edward Woodberry Sonnets Written in the Autumn of 1914 142 John Drinkwater We Willed it not 146 John Drinkwater Of Greatham 147 Percy Mackaye Christmas, 1915 148 Henry van Dyke The Peaceful Warrior 148 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ronald Ross The Death of Peace 149 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ronald Ross Apocalypse 152 Walter de la Mare The Fool Rings his Bells 155 Barry Pain The Kaiser and God 157 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Guns in Sussex 158 Kathleen Knox A Lost Land 159 Olive Tilford Dargan "It Will be a Hard Winter" 161 Patrick R. Chalmers The Steeple 162 Mrs. C. T. Whitmell Christ in Flanders 163 Edith Wharton Battle Sleep 165 John Finley The Road to Dieppe 165 W. Macneile Dixon To Fellow Travellers in Greece 168 John Freeman The Stars in their Courses 169 Gamaliel Bradford Napoleon 171 Dana Burnet Napoleon's Tomb 172 Robert Grant The Superman 173 H. H. Bashford The Vision of Spring, 1916 174 Vachel Lindsay Niagara 176 Everard Owen Three Hills 178 Everard Owen Ypres Tower, Rye 178 Clinton Scollard A Summer Morning 179 G. O. Warren Fulfilment 180 Guy Kendall To my Pupils, Gone before Their Day 181 Theodosia Garrison "These Shall Prevail" 181 Stuart P. Sherman Kaiser and Councillor 182 Odell Shepard The Hidden Weaver 183 Evelyn Underhill Non-Combatants 184 W. H. Draper The Red Christmas 185 Sara Teasdale "There Will Come Soft Rains" 186 Ethel M. Hewitt Bois-Étoilé 187 Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley Going to the Front 188 Robert W. Service Faith 189 Robert W. Service The Song of the Pacifist 189 Chaplain G. A. Studdert Kennedy A Mother Understands 190 Bliss Carman The War Cry of the Eagles 191 XVII. INCIDENTS AND ASPECTS Robert W. Service The Volunteer 194 Robert W. Service Fleurette 195 John Freeman The Return 198 Sir Henry Newbolt The Toy Band 199 Sir Henry Newbolt A Letter from the Front 200 Sir Owen Seaman Thomas of the Light Heart 201 Maurice Hewlett In the Trenches 202 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Guards Came Through 203 William Dean Howells The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible 205 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Retreat 206 John Ernest Adamson Resurrection 207 F. W. Bourdillon The Call 213 Lieutenant William Rose Benét Front Line 214 Eden Phillpotts In Gallipoli 215 John Gould Fletcher The Last Rally 216 John Gould Fletcher Channel Sunset 218 Rowland Thirlmere Richmond Park 218 Patrick R. Chalmers Infantry 219 Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Ballad of St. Barbara 220 Maud Anna Bell From a Trench 226 Guy Kendall Mopsus 227 Herbert Kaufman The Hell-Gate of Soissons 230 George Sterling Henri 233 Neil Munro Romance 234 Grace Fallow Norton The Mobilization in Brittany 236 Isabel Ecclestone Mackay The Recruit 238 Maxwell Struthers Burt Pierrot at War 239 Katharine Tynan High Summer 240 Grace Hazard Conkling Rheims Cathedral, 1914 240 Lieutenant T. M. Kettle To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God 241 Sergeant Leslie Coulson The Rainbow 241 Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson ("Edward Melbourne") Back to Rest 242 Sergeant Joyce Kilmer Prayer of a Soldier in France 243 Chaplain G. A. Studdert Kennedy Solomon in all his Glory 244 Chaplain G. A. Studdert Kennedy War 244 XVIII. POETS MILITANT Lieutenant Rupert Brooke The Soldier 245 Lieutenant Rupert Brooke Safety 245 Lieutenant Rupert Brooke Peace 246 Alan Seeger I Have a Rendezvous with Death 246 Alan Seeger Champagne, 1914—15 247 Captain Julian Grenfell Into Battle 250 Lance-Corporal Francis Ledwidge The Place 251 Lance-Corporal Francis Ledwidge Evening Clouds 252 Captain Lord Dunsany Songs from an Evil Wood 252 Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley Expectans Expectavi 255 Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley "All the Hills and Vales Along" 256 Flight-Commander Jeffrey Day To My Brother 257 Lieutenant Robert Ernest Vernède A Petition 259 Sergeant Joyce Kilmer The New School 259 Sergeant Joyce Kilmer Kings 261 Lieutenant Robert Nichols Comrades: An Episode 261 Lieutenant Robert Nichols Fulfilment 264 Lieutenant Robert Nichols The Day's March 265 Captain Siegfried Sassoon The Troops 266 Captain Siegfried Sassoon Trench Duty 267 Captain T. P. Cameron Wilson Magpies in Picardy 267 Lieutenant Frederic Manning The Face 269 Lieutenant Frederic Manning The Sign 269 Lieutenant Frederic Manning The Trenches 270 Lieutenant Frederic Manning Transport 271 Captain James H. Knight-Adkin No Man's Land 272 Captain James H. Knight-Adkin "On Les Aura!" 273 Captain Robert Graves The Last Post 274 Lieutenant Herbert Asquith On a Troopship, 1915 274 Lieutenant Herbert Asquith The Volunteer 275 Patrick MacGill Before the Charge 275 Patrick MacGill In the Morning 276 Lieutenant E. Wyndham Tennant Home Thoughts from Laventie 277 Lieutenant E. Wyndham Tennant Reincarnation 279 Lieutenant E. Wyndham Tennant Light after Darkness 279 Captain Edward de Stein To a Skylark behind Our Trenches 280 Lieutenant F. W. Harvey The Bugler 281 Lieutenant E. Armine Wodehouse Before Ginchy 281 Lieutenant E. Armine Wodehouse Next Morning 284 Captain James Norman Hall The Cricketers of Flanders 286 Captain James Norman Hall A Finger and a Huge, Thick Thumb 287 Lieutenant Henry William Hutchinson Sonnets 290 Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson ("Edward Melbourne") God's Hills 291 Captain Gilbert Frankau Headquarters 281 Captain Gilbert Frankau Ammunition Column 294 Captain Gilbert Frankau The Voice of the Guns 295 Bernard Freeman Trotter A Kiss 297 Bernard Freeman Trotter The Poplars 298 Captain William G. Shakespeare The Cathedral 299 Lieutenant-Commander E. Hilton Young Memories 300 W. S. S. Lyon Lines Written in a Fire-Trench 300 Lieutenant Joseph Lee Back to London: A Poem of Leave 301 Lieutenant Joseph Lee German Prisoners 303 Private A. N. Field The Challenge of the Guns 304 Lieutenant-Colonel W. Campbell Galbraith Red Poppies in the Corn 304 Captain W. Kersley Holmes Horse-Bathing Parade 305 Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson "Edward Melbourne") Before Action 306 Lieutenant Robert Haven Schauffler After Action 306 Captain James Sprent A Confession of Faith 307 Lieutenant Ronald Lewis Carton Hereafter 307 Major Charles G. D. Roberts Cambrai and Marne 310 Lieutenant Donald F. Goold Johnson Battle Hymn 312 Sergeant Joyce Kilmer The Peacemaker 312 XIX. AUXILIARIES Winifred M. Letts Chaplain to the Forces 314 Eden Phillpotts Song of the Red Cross 315 Laurence Binyon The Healers 316 Edith M. Thomas The Red Cross Nurse 317 XX. KEEPING THE SEAS Alfred Noyes Wireless 318 Alfred Noyes Kilmeny 319 Alfred Noyes The "Vindictive" 320 Robert Bridges The Chivalry of the Sea 322 Sir William Watson The Battle of the Bight 323 Sir Henry Newbolt The Song of the Guns at Sea 324 Morley Roberts The Merchantmen 325 Reginald McIntosh Cleveland Destroyers off Jutland 327 Katharine Tynan After Jutland 327 J. Edgar Middleton Off Heligoland 328 Lieutenant-Commander N. M. F. Corbett The Auxiliary Cruiser 329 C. Fox Smith British Merchant Service 330 C. Fox Smith The North Sea Ground 332 Henry Head Destroyers 333 Lieutenant Nowell Oxland Outward Bound 334 Cecil Roberts Watchmen of the Night 336 Norah M. Holland Captains Adventurous 337 Flight-Commander Jeffery Day The North Sea 338 XXI. THE AIRMEN Maurice Baring In Memoriam A. H. 340 George Edward Woodberry To the Wingless Victory 346 Grace Hazard Conkling Letter to an Aviator in France 347 Duncan Campbell Scott To a Canadian Aviator who died for his Country in France 349 Florence Earle Coates Captain Guynemer 350 Captain Paul Bewsher Searchlights 351 XXII. THE WOUNDED Robert Bridges Trafalgar Square 353 Winifred M. Letts To a Soldier in Hospital 354 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Between the Lines 355 Amy Lowell Convalescence 360 Rowland Thirlmere Gassed 360 Edward Shillito Invalided 362 Lieutenant Robert Haven Schauffler The White Comrade 362 Alberta Vickridge, V.A.D. Out of the Conflict 365 XXIII. THE FALLEN Lieutenant Rupert Brooke The Dead 367 Sir Henry Newbolt Hic Jacet Qui in Hoc Saeculo Fideliter Militavit 368 Laurence Binyon For the Fallen 368 Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley Two Sonnets 369 Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley The Dead 370 Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae In Flanders Fields 371 Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae The Anxious Dead 371 Lieutenant Robert Ernest Vernède To Our Fallen 372 Lieutenant Herbert Asquith The Fallen Subaltern 373 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Lament 373 John Galsworthy Valley of the Shadow 374 Lord Crewe A Harrow Grave in Flanders 374 E. V. Lucas The Debt 370 John Drinkwater Riddles, R.F.C. 376 Barry Pain The Army of the Dead 377 G. O. Warren The Spectral Army 378 John Jay Chapman To a Dog 378 Norreys Jephson O'Conor For Francis Ledwidge 379 A. E. The Last Hero 380 John Masefield The Island of Skyros 380 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Rupert Brooke 381 Moray Dalton Rupert Brooke (In Memoriam) 383 Eden Phillpotts To Rupert Brooke 383 Robert Bridges Lord Kitchener 384 John Helston Kitchener 384 Wilfred Campbell Where Kitchener Sleeps 385 Amelia Josephine Burr Kitchener's March 386 Sir Owen Seaman To the Memory of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts 387 George Edward Woodberry Edith Cavell 388 Thomas Hardy Before Marching, and After 389 W. L. Courtney To our Dead 390 G. E. Rees Telling the Bees 390 Captain A. T. Nankivell The House of Death 391 Margaret Adelaide Wilson Gervais 391 Lieutenant Sigourney Thayer The Dead 392 Claude Houghton To the Fallen 392 Captain T. P. Cameron Wilson Sportsmen in Paradise 393 A. E. Murray The Dead 393 Duncan Campbell Scott To a Canadian Lad, Killed in the War 394 Moray Dalton To Some Who have Fallen 395 Lieutenant Ewart Alan Mackintosh In Memoriam 395 Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick George Scott The Silent Toast 397 Herman Hagedorn Resurrection 398 Francis Bickley The Players 398 Captain W. Kersley Holmes Fallen 399 John Hogben "Somewhere in France" 399 Marjorie Wilson To Tony (aged 3) 400 Mildred Huxley To my Godson 401 Katharine Tynan New Heaven 402 Katharine Tynan The Old Soldier 403 Lieutenant Ronald Lewis Carton Réveillé 403 Lieutenant Walter Lightowler Wilkinson A Lament from the Dead 404 XXIV. WOMEN AND THE WAR Winifred M. Letts The Call to Arms in our Street 406 G. O. Warren The Endless Army 407 Katharine Tynan The Mother 408 Marjorie Wilson The Devonshire Mother 409 F. W. Bourdillon The Heart-Cry 410 Ada Tyrell My Son 410 Margaret Widdemer Homes 411 Edward J. O'Brien Song 412 Josephine Preston Peabody Harvest Moon 412 Josephine Preston Peabody Harvest Moon, 1916 414 Grace Fallow Norton The Journey 415 Captain Gilbert Frankau Mother and Mate 416 Gabrielle Elliot Pierrot Goes to War 417 Katherine Hale Grey Knitting 417 Katharine Tynan At Parting 418 Beatrice W. Ravenel Missing 419 Sara Teasdale Spring in War-Time 420 XXV. PEACE Austin Dobson "When there is Peace" 421 Austin Dobson Clean Hands 421 G. O. Warren Peace 422 Richard le Gallienne After the War 423 Marjorie L. C. Pickthall When It Is Finished 423 Eden Phillpotts Réveillé 424 Sergeant Leslie Coulson When I Come Home 425 Indexes 427