A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

SERGEANT LESLIE COULSON: "--But a Short Time to Live"

LIEUTENANT W. N. HODGSON: Before Action

LIEUTENANT DYNELEY HUSSEY: Courage

LIEUTENANT A. VICTOR RATCLIFFE: Optimism

MAJOR SYDNEY OSWALD: The Battlefield

CAPTAIN JAMES H. KNIGHT-ADKIN: "On Les Aura!"

CORPORAL ALEXANDER ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers

LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty Clearing Station

LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home

XVI. AUXILIARIES

JOHN FINLEY: The Red Cross Spirit Speaks

WINIFRED M. LETTS: Chaplain to the Forces

EDEN PHILLPOTTS: Song of the Red Cross

LAURENCE BINYON: The Healers

THOMAS L. MARSON: The Red Cross Nurses

XVII. KEEPING THE SEAS

ALFRED NOYES: Kilmeny

RUDYARD KIPLING: The Mine-Sweepers

HENRY VAN DYKE: Mare Liberum

LIEUTENANT PAUL BEWSHER: The Dawn Patrol

REGINALD MCINTOSH CLEVELAND: Destroyers off Jutland

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C. FOX SMITH: British Merchant Service

XVIII. THE WOUNDED

WINIFRED M. LETTS: To a Soldier in Hospital

WILFRID WILSON GIBSON: Between the Lines

ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER: The White Comrade

ROBERT W. SERVICE: Fleurette

ROBERT FROST: Not to Keep

XIX. THE FALLEN

LIEUTENANT RUPERT BROOKE: The Dead

JOHN MASEFIELD: The Island of Skyros

LAURENCE BINYON: For the Fallen

CAPTAIN CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY: Two Sonnets

WALTER DE LA MARE: "How Sleep the Brave!"

EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS: The Debt

CANON AND MAJOR FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT: Requiescant

LIEUTENANT ROBERT ERNEST VERNÈDE: To our Fallen

KATHARINE TYNAN: The Old Soldier

ROBERT BRIDGES: Lord Kitchener

JOHN HELSTON: Kitchener

LIEUTENANT HERBERT ASQUITH: The Fallen Subaltern

F. W. BOURDILLON: The Debt Unpayable

WILFRID WILSON GIBSON: The Messages

G. ROSTREVOR HAMILTON: A Cross in Flanders

HERMANN HAGEDORN: Resurrection

OSCAR C. A. CHILD: To a Hero

MORAY DALTON: Rupert Brooke (In Memoriam)

FRANCIS BICKLEY: The Players

CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND: A Song

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XX. WOMEN AND WAR

JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY: Harvest Moon

JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY: Harvest Moon: 1916

ADA TYRRELL: My Son

KATHARINE TYNAN: To the Others

GRACE FALLOW NORTON: The Journey

MARGARET PETERSON: A Mother's Dedication

EDEN PHILLPOTTS: To a Mother

SARA TEASDALE: Spring In War-Time

OCCASIONAL NOTES

INDEXES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Editor desires to express his cordial appreciation of the assistance rendered him in his undertaking by the officials of the British Museum (Mr. F.D. Sladen, in particular); Professor W. Macneile Dixon, of the University of Glasgow; Professor Kemp Smith, of Princeton University; Miss Esther C. Johnson, of Needham, Massachusetts; and Mr. Francis Bickley, of London. He wishes also to acknowledge the courtesies generously extended by the following authors, periodicals, and publishers in granting permission for the use of the poems indicated, rights in which are in each case reserved by the owner of the copyright:--

Mr. Francis Bickley and the Westminster Gazette:--"The Players."

Mr. F.W. Bourdillon and the Spectator:--"The Debt Unpayable."

Dr. Robert Bridges and the London Times:--"Lord Kitchener," and "To the United States of America."

Mr. Dana Burnet and the New York Evening Sun:--"The Battle of Liège."

Mr. Wilfred Campbell and the Ottawa Evening Journal:--"Langemarck at Ypres."

Mr. Patrick R. Chalmers and Punch:--"Guns of Verdun."

Mr. Cecil Chesterton and The New Witness:--"France."

Mr. Oscar C.A. Child and Harper's Magazine:--"To a Hero."

Mr. Reginald McIntosh Cleveland and the New York Times:--"Destroyers off Jutland."

Miss Charlotte Holmes Crawford and Scribner's Magazine:--"Vive la France!"

Mr. Moray Dalton and the Spectator:--"Rupert Brooke."

Lord Desborough and the London Times:--"Into Battle," by the late Captain Julian Grenfell.

Professor W. Macneile Dixon and the London Times:--"To Fellow Travellers in Greece,"

Mr. Austin, Dobson and the Spectator:--"'When There Is Peace;'"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the London Times:--"The Guards Came Through."

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Mr. John Finley and the Atlantic Monthly:--"The Road to Dieppe"; Mr. Finley, the American Red Cross, and the Red Cross Magazine:--"The Red Cross Spirit Speaks."

Mr. John Freeman and the Westminster Gazette:--"The Return."

Mr. Robert Frost and the Yale Review:--"Not to Keep."

Mr. John Galsworthy and the Westminster Gazette:--"England to Free Men"; Mr. Galsworthy and the London Chronicle:--"Russia--America."

Mrs. Theodosia Garrison and Scribner's Magazine:--"The Soul of Jeanne d'Arc."

Lady Glenconner and the London Times:--"Home Thoughts from Laventie," by the late Lieutenant E. Wyndham Tennant.

Mr. Robert Grant and the Nation (New York):--"The Superman."

Mr. Hermann Hagedorn and the Century Magazine:--"Resurrection."

Mr. James Norman Hall and the Spectator:--"The Cricketers of Flanders."

Mr. Thomas Hardy and the London Times:--"Men Who March Away," and "Then and Now."

Mr. John Helston and the English Review:--"Kitchener."

Mr. Maurice Hewlett:--"In the Trenches," from Sing-Songs of the War (The Poetry Bookshop).

Dr. A. E. Hillard:--"The Dawn Patrol," by Lieutenant Paul Bewsher.

Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson:--"To the Others" and "The Old Soldier."

Mrs. Florence T. Holt and the Atlantic Monthly:--"England and America."

Mr. William Dean Howells and the North American Review:--"The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible."

Lady Hutchinson:--"Sonnets," by the late Lieutenant Henry William Hutchinson.

Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson:--"To Russia New and Free," from Poems of War and Peace, published by the author.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling:--"The Choice"; "'For All we Have and Are'"; and "The Mine-Sweepers." (Copyright, 1914, 1915, 1917, by Rudyard Kipling.)

Captain James H. Knight-Adkin and the Spectator;--"No Man's Land" and "On Les Aura!"

Sergeant Joseph Lee and the Spectator:--"German Prisoners."

Mr. E. V. Lucas and the Sphere:--"The Debt."

Mr. Walter de la Mare and the London Times:--"'How Sleep the Brave!'"; Mr. de la Mare and the Westminster Gazette:--"The Fool Rings his Bells."

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