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 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." 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."