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Title	A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919
Editor	George Herbert Clarke
Publisher	Hodder and Stoughton (copyright notice 1917)
Location	London
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CONTENTS

I. ENGLAND

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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	293
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	375
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
Hermann 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


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