A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917
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A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917
World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry
Dr. Henry van Dyke and the London _Times_:--"Liberty Enlightening the
World," and "_Mare Liberum_"; Dr. van Dyke and the _Art World_: "The
Name of France."
Mr. Tertius van Dyke and the _Spectator_:--"Oxford Revisited in
War-Time."
Mrs. Edith Wharton:--"Belgium," from _King Albert's Book_ (Hearst's
International Library Company).
Mr. George Edward Woodberry and the _Boston Herald_:--"On the Italian
Front, MCMXVI"; Mr. Woodberry, the _New York Times_ and the _North
American Review_:--"Sonnets Written in the Fall of 1914."
_The Athenaeum_:--"A Cross in Flanders," by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.
_The Poetry Review_:--"The Messines Road," by Captain J.E. Stewart; "--
But a Short Time to Live," by the late Sergeant Leslie Coulson.
_The Spectator_:--"The Challenge of the Guns," by Private A.N. Field.
The London _Times_:--"To Our Fallen" and "A Petition," by the late
Lieutenant Robert Ernest Vernède.
The _Westminster Gazette_:--"Lines Written in Surrey, 1917," by George
Herbert Clarke.
Messrs. Barse & Hopkins:--"Fleurette," by Robert W. Service.
The Cambridge University Press and Professor William R. Sorley:--
"_Expectans Expectavi_"; "'All the Hills and Vales Along,'" and "Two
Sonnets," by the late Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley, from _Marlborough
and Other Poems_.
Messrs. Chatto & Windus:--"Fulfilment" and "The Day's March," by Robert
Nichols.
Messrs. Constable & Company:--"Pro Patria," "Thomas of the Light Heart,"
and "To Belgium in Exile," by Sir Owen Seaman, from _War-Time_; "To
France" and "_Requiescant_," by Canon and Major Frederick George Scott,
from _In the Battle Silences_.
Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company:--"To a Soldier in Hospital" (the
_Spectator_); "Chaplain to the Forces" and "The Spires of Oxford"
(_Westminster Gazette_), by Winifred M. Letts, from _Hallowe'en, and
Poems of the War_; "A Chant of Love for England," by Helen Gray Cone,
from _A Chant of Love for England, and Other Poems_ (published also by
J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, London).
Lawrence J. Gomme:--"Italy in Arms," by Clinton Scollard, from _Italy in
Arms, and Other Poems_.
Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company:--"To the Belgians"; "Men of Verdun";
"The Anvil"; "Edith Cavell"; "The Healers" and "For the Fallen," by
Laurence Binyon, from _The Cause_ (published also by Elkin Mathews,
London, in _The Anvil_ and _The Winnowing Fan_); "Headquarters," by
Captain Gilbert Frankau, from _A Song of the Guns_; "Place de la
Concorde" and "In War-Time," by Florence Earle Coates, from _The
Collected Poems of Florence Earle Coates_; "Harvest Moon" and "Harvest
Moon, 1915," by Josephine Preston Peabody, from _Harvest Moon_; "The
Mobilization in Brittany" and "The Journey," by Grace Fallow Norton,
from _Roads_, and "Rheims Cathedral--1914," by Grace Hazard Conkling,
from _Afternoons of April_.
John Lane:--"The Kaiser and Belgium," by the late Stephen Phillips.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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