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You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 Author: Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Herbert Clarke Release Date: September, 2005 [EBook #8820] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on August 11, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TREASURY OF WAR POETRY *** Produced by Distributed Proofreaders THE RIVERSIDE LITERATURE SERIES A TREASURY OF WAR POETRY BRITISH AND AMERICAN POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR 1914-1917 Edited, With Introduction And Notes, By GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Professor of English in the University of Tennessee CONTENTS I. AMERICA RUDYARD KIPLING: The Choice HENRY VAN DYKE: "Liberty Enlightening the World" ROBERT BRIDGES: To the United States of America VACHEL LINDSAY: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER: The "William P. Frye" II. ENGLAND AND AMERICA FLORENCE T. HOLT: England and America LIEUTENANT CHARLES LANGBRIDGE MORGAN: To America HELEN GRAY CONE: A Chant of Love for England HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY: At St. Paul's: April 20, 1917 ROWLAND THIRLMERE: Jimmy Doane ALFRED NOYES: Princeton, May, 1917 III. ENGLAND SIR HENRY NEWBOLT: The Vigil RUDYARD KIPLING: "For All we Have and Are" JOHN GALSWORTHY: England to Free Men SIR OWEN SEAMAN: _Pro Patria_ GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE: Lines Written in Surrey, 1917 IV. FRANCE CECIL CHESTERTON: _France_ HENRY VAN DYKE: The Name of France CHARLOTTE HOLMES CRAWFORD: _Vive la France!_ THEODOSIA GARRISON: The Soul of Jeanne d'Arc EDGAR LEE MASTERS: O Glorious France HERBERT JONES: To France FLORENCE EARLE COATES: Place de la Concorde CANON AND MAJOR FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT: To France GRACE ELLERY CHANNING: _Qui Vive?_ V. BELGIUM LAURENCE BINYON: To the Belgians EDITH WHARTON: Belgium EDEN PHILLPOTTS: To Belgium SIR OWEN SEAMAN: To Belgium in Exile GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON: The Wife of Flanders VI. RUSSIA AND AMERICA JOHN GALSWORTHY: Russia--America ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON: To Russia New and Free VII. ITALY CLINTON SCOLLARD: Italy in Arms GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY: On the Italian Front, MCMXVI VIII. AUSTRALIA ARCHIBALD T. STRONG: Australia to England IX. CANADA MARJORIE L. C. PICKTHALL: Canada to England WILFRED CAMPBELL: Langemarck at Ypres WILL H. OGILVIE: Canadians X. LIÈGE STEPHEN PHILLIPS: The Kaiser and Belgium DANA BURNET: The Battle of Liège XI. VERDUN LAURENCE BINYON: Men of Verdun EDEN PHILLPOTTS: Verdun PATRICK R. CHALMERS: Guns of Verdun XII. OXFORD WINIFRED M. LETTS: The Spires of Oxford W. SNOW: Oxford in War-Time TERTIUS VAN DYKE: Oxford Revisited in War-Time XIII. REFLECTIONS GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY: Sonnets Written in the Fall of 1914 SIR HENRY NEWBOLT: The War Films ALFRED NOYES: The Searchlights PERCY MACKAYE: Christmas: 1915 THOMAS HARDY: "Men who March Away" JOHN DRINKWATER: We Willed it Not LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR RONALD ROSS: The Death of Peace FLORENCE EARLE COATES: In War-Time LAURENCE BINYON: The Anvil WALTER DE LA MARE: The Fool Rings his Bells JOHN FINLEY: The Road to Dieppe W. MACNEILE DIXON: To Fellow Travellers in Greece AUSTIN DOBSON: "When there is Peace" ALFRED NOYES: A Prayer in Time of War THOMAS HARDY: Then and Now BARRY PAIN: The Kaiser and God ROBERT GRANT: The Superman EVERARD OWEN: Three Hills XIV. INCIDENTS AND ASPECTS JOHN FREEMAN: The Return GRACE FALLOW NORTON: The Mobilization in Brittany SIR HENRY NEWBOLT: The Toy Band SIR OWEN SEAMAN: Thomas of the Light Heart MAURICE HEWLETT: In the Trenches SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: The Guards Came Through WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS: The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible LAURENCE BUTTON: Edith Cavell HERBERT KAUFMAN: The Hell-Gate of Soissons GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE: The Virgin of Albert WILFRID WILSON GIBSON: Retreat SIR HENRY NEWBOLT: A Letter from the Front GRACE HAZARD CONKLING: Rheims Cathedral--1914 XV. POETS MILITANT ALAN SEEGER: I Have a Rendezvous with Death LIEUTENANT RUPERT BROOKE: The Soldier CAPTAIN CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY: _Expectans Expectavi_ LIEUTENANT HERBERT ASQUITH: The Volunteer CAPTAIN JULIAN GRENFELL: Into Battle JAMES NORMAN HALL: The Cricketers of Flanders CAPTAIN CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY: "All the Hills and Vales Along" CAPTAIN JAMES H. KNIGHT-ADKIN: No Man's Land ALAN SEEGER: Champagne, 1914-15 CAPTAIN GILBERT FRANKAU: Headquarters LIEUTENANT E. WYNDHAM TENNANT: Home Thoughts from Laventie LIEUTENANT ROBERT ERNEST VERNÈDE: A Petition ROBERT NICHOLS: Fulfilment The Day's March LIEUTENANT FREDERIC MANNING: The Sign The Trenches LIEUTENANT HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON: Sonnets CAPTAIN J. E. STEWART: The Messines Road PRIVATE A. N. FIELD: The Challenge of the Guns LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY HOWARD: The Beach Road by the Wood SERGEANT JOSEPH LEE: German Prisoners

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