A Treasury of War Poetry - British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 by Unknown
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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. The John Lane Company:--"The Wife of Flanders," by Gilbert K. Chesterton, from _Poems_ (published also by Messrs. Burns and Gates, London); "The Soldier," and "The Dead," by the late Lieutenant Rupert Brooke, from _The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke_ (published also by Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, in _19l4, and Other Poems_). Erskine Macdonald:--The following poems from _Soldier Poets_:--"The Beach Road by the Wood," by Lieutenant Geoffrey Howard; "Before Action," by the late Lieutenant W.N. Hodgson ("Edward Melbourne"); "Courage," by Lieutenant Dyneley Hussey; "Optimism," by Lieutenant A. Victor Ratcliffe; "The Battlefield," by Major Sidney Oswald; "To an Old Lady Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers," by Corporal Alexander Robertson; "The Casualty Clearing Station," by Lieutenant Gilbert Waterhouse; and "Hills of Home," by Lance-Corporal Malcolm Hemphrey. The Macmillan Company:--"To Belgium"; "Verdun"; "To a Mother," and "Song of the Red Cross," by Eden Phillpotts, from _Plain Song, 1914-1916_ (published also by William Heinemann, London); "The Island of Skyros," by John Masefield; "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," from _The Congo and Other Poems_, by Vachel Lindsay; "O Glorious France," by Edgar Lee Masters, from _Songs and Satires_; "Christmas, 1915," from _Poems and Plays_, by Percy MacKaye; "The Hellgate of Soissons," by Herbert Kaufman, from _The Hellgate of Soissons_; "Spring in War-Time," by Sara Teasdale, from _Rivers to the Sea_; and "Retreat," "The Messages," and "Between the Lines," by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. |
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