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