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A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914—1919

George Herbert Clarke · 1917 · Free in the US

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Author
George Herbert Clarke
Language
English
Published
1917
Length
99,511 words · about 6 h 58 min
Sections
339 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (339)
  1. CONTENTS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION about 41 min
  2. The Vigil about 1 min
  3. England to Free Men about 1 min
  4. Expeditional about 1 min
  5. Evening in England about 1 min
  6. Saint George of England about 1 min
  7. Lines Written in Surrey, 1917 under 1 min
  8. Sweet England about 3 min
  9. England Yet about 1 min
  10. "Burn up the World" under 1 min
  11. England under 1 min
  12. "For all we have and are" about 1 min
  13. Pipes in Arras about 1 min
  14. Highland Night about 1 min
  15. "Lochaber no More" about 1 min
  16. Part 3, Ireland about 1 min
  17. Moira's Keening about 1 min
  18. The Connaught Rangers about 1 min
  19. A Song of the Irish Armies about 1 min
  20. Canada to England about 1 min
  21. Langemarck about 3 min
  22. Canadians about 1 min
  23. Australia to England about 1 min
  24. Farewell to Anzac about 1 min
  25. Queenslanders about 1 min
  26. The New Zealander about 1 min
  27. Song of the Dardanelles about 2 min
  28. Fighting Hard about 1 min
  29. To the Belgians about 1 min
  30. Belgium under 1 min
  31. A Flemish Village about 1 min
  32. To Belgium in Exile about 1 min
  33. The Wife of Flanders about 1 min
  34. The Heroes about 1 min
  35. France about 1 min
  36. Sedan under 1 min
  37. Vive la France about 1 min
  38. Place de la Concorde about 1 min
  39. To France about 1 min
  40. The Valleys of the Blue Shrouds about 2 min
  41. Flower-Beds in the Tuileries about 1 min
  42. The Name of France about 1 min
  43. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight about 1 min
  44. To the United States of America about 1 min
  45. The America under 1 min
  46. "Advance, America!" about 1 min
  47. To America in War Time about 1 min
  48. The Choice about 1 min
  49. The New Ally under 1 min
  50. A Chant of Love for England about 1 min
  51. To America about 1 min
  52. The Fourth of July, 1776 under 1 min
  53. The New World about 2 min
  54. Jimmy Doane about 2 min
  55. Princeton, May, 1917 about 2 min
  56. Italy in Arms about 1 min
  57. On the Italian Front, MCMXVI under 1 min
  58. To Italy under 1 min
  59. Autumn Evening in Serbia under 1 min
  60. Serbia under 1 min
  61. The Homecoming of the Sheep about 1 min
  62. Roumania under 1 min
  63. The Battle of Liège about 2 min
  64. The Kaiser and Belgium about 1 min
  65. Ypres about 2 min
  66. Easter at Ypres, 1915 about 1 min
  67. The First Battle of Ypres about 3 min
  68. Ruins under 1 min
  69. Men of Verdun about 1 min
  70. Verdun about 1 min
  71. Guns of Verdun under 1 min
  72. The Spires of Oxford about 1 min
  73. Oxford in War-Time about 2 min
  74. To the Oxford Men in the War about 1 min
  75. Subalterns about 1 min
  76. The Ghosts of Oxford about 1 min
  77. Oxford revisited in War-Time about 1 min
  78. Oxford from the Trenches about 1 min
  79. "Men who March away" about 1 min
  80. In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" under 1 min
  81. The Choice about 1 min
  82. Then and Now about 1 min
  83. The Searchlights about 1 min
  84. The Soldier Speaks about 1 min
  85. The Ragged Stone about 1 min
  86. The War Films about 1 min
  87. Gods of War about 1 min
  88. Shadows and Lights about 3 min
  89. Sonnets Written in the Autumn of 1914 about 3 min
  90. We Willed it not about 2 min
  91. Of Greatham about 1 min
  92. Christmas, 1915 under 1 min
  93. The Peaceful Warrior about 1 min
  94. The Death of Peace about 3 min
  95. Apocalypse about 2 min
  96. The Fool Rings his Bells about 2 min
  97. The Kaiser and God about 1 min
  98. The Guns in Sussex about 1 min
  99. A Lost Land about 1 min
  100. "It Will be a Hard Winter" about 1 min
  101. The Steeple about 1 min
  102. Christ in Flanders about 2 min
  103. Battle Sleep about 1 min
  104. The Road to Dieppe about 3 min
  105. To Fellow Travellers in Greece about 1 min
  106. The Stars in their Courses about 3 min
  107. Napoleon under 1 min
  108. Napoleon's Tomb about 1 min
  109. The Superman about 1 min
  110. The Vision of Spring, 1916 about 2 min
  111. Niagara about 1 min
  112. Three Hills under 1 min
  113. Ypres Tower, Rye about 1 min
  114. A Summer Morning under 1 min
  115. Fulfilment about 1 min
  116. To my Pupils, Gone before Their Day about 1 min
  117. "These Shall Prevail" under 1 min
  118. Kaiser and Councillor about 1 min
  119. The Hidden Weaver about 1 min
  120. Non-Combatants about 1 min
  121. The Red Christmas about 1 min
  122. "There Will Come Soft Rains" under 1 min
  123. Bois-Étoilé about 1 min
  124. Going to the Front about 1 min
  125. Faith under 1 min
  126. The Song of the Pacifist about 1 min
  127. A Mother Understands under 1 min
  128. The War Cry of the Eagles about 2 min
  129. The Volunteer about 1 min
  130. Fleurette about 3 min
  131. The Return under 1 min
  132. The Toy Band about 1 min
  133. A Letter from the Front about 1 min
  134. Thomas of the Light Heart about 1 min
  135. In the Trenches about 1 min
  136. The Guards Came Through about 2 min
  137. The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible about 2 min
  138. Retreat under 1 min
  139. Resurrection about 6 min
  140. The Call about 1 min
  141. Front Line about 1 min
  142. In Gallipoli about 1 min
  143. The Last Rally about 1 min
  144. Channel Sunset under 1 min
  145. Richmond Park about 1 min
  146. Infantry about 1 min
  147. The Ballad of St. Barbara about 7 min
  148. From a Trench about 1 min
  149. Mopsus about 3 min
  150. The Hell-Gate of Soissons about 3 min
  151. Henri about 1 min
  152. Romance about 1 min
  153. The Mobilization in Brittany about 2 min
  154. The Recruit about 1 min
  155. Pierrot at War about 1 min
  156. High Summer about 1 min
  157. Rheims Cathedral, 1914 under 1 min
  158. The Rainbow about 1 min
  159. To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God about 1 min
  160. Back to Rest about 1 min
  161. Prayer of a Soldier in France under 1 min
  162. Solomon in all his Glory under 1 min
  163. War under 1 min
  164. Safety about 1 min
  165. The Soldier about 1 min
  166. I Have a Rendezvous with Death about 1 min
  167. Peace about 1 min
  168. Champagne, 1914—15 about 2 min
  169. Into Battle about 2 min
  170. The Place about 1 min
  171. Evening Clouds about 1 min
  172. Songs from an Evil Wood about 3 min
  173. Expectans Expectavi about 1 min
  174. "All the Hills and Vales Along" about 1 min
  175. To My Brother about 1 min
  176. A Petition about 1 min
  177. The New School about 1 min
  178. Comrades: An Episode about 3 min
  179. Kings under 1 min
  180. Fulfilment about 1 min
  181. The Day's March about 1 min
  182. The Troops about 1 min
  183. Magpies in Picardy about 1 min
  184. Trench Duty under 1 min
  185. The Face under 1 min
  186. The Sign about 1 min
  187. The Trenches about 1 min
  188. Transport about 1 min
  189. No Man's Land about 1 min
  190. "On Les Aura!" about 1 min
  191. On a Troopship, 1915 about 1 min
  192. The Last Post under 1 min
  193. Before the Charge under 1 min
  194. The Volunteer about 1 min
  195. In the Morning about 2 min
  196. Home Thoughts from Laventie about 1 min
  197. Light after Darkness about 1 min
  198. Reincarnation under 1 min
  199. To a Skylark behind Our Trenches about 1 min
  200. Before Ginchy about 3 min
  201. The Bugler about 1 min
  202. Next Morning about 1 min
  203. The Cricketers of Flanders about 1 min
  204. A Finger and a Huge, Thick Thumb about 3 min
  205. Sonnets about 1 min
  206. God's Hills about 1 min
  207. Headquarters about 1 min
  208. Ammunition Column about 1 min
  209. The Voice of the Guns about 2 min
  210. A Kiss about 1 min
  211. The Poplars about 1 min
  212. The Cathedral under 1 min
  213. Lines Written in a Fire-Trench about 1 min
  214. Memories under 1 min
  215. Back to London: A Poem of Leave about 2 min
  216. German Prisoners about 1 min
  217. Red Poppies in the Corn about 1 min
  218. The Challenge of the Guns under 1 min
  219. Horse-Bathing Parade about 1 min
  220. After Action under 1 min
  221. Before Action about 1 min
  222. A Confession of Faith about 1 min
  223. Hereafter about 3 min
  224. Cambrai and Marne about 1 min
  225. Battle Hymn about 1 min
  226. The Peacemaker about 1 min
  227. Chaplain to the Forces about 1 min
  228. Song of the Red Cross under 1 min
  229. The Healers about 1 min
  230. The Red Cross Nurse under 1 min
  231. Wireless about 1 min
  232. Kilmeny about 1 min
  233. The Vindictive about 2 min
  234. The Chivalry of the Sea about 1 min
  235. The Battle of the Bight about 1 min
  236. The Song of the Guns at Sea about 1 min
  237. The Merchantmen about 1 min
  238. After Jutland about 1 min
  239. Destroyers off Jutland about 1 min
  240. Off Heligoland about 1 min
  241. The Auxiliary Cruiser about 2 min
  242. British Merchant Service about 2 min
  243. The North Sea Ground about 1 min
  244. Destroyers about 1 min
  245. Outward Bound about 2 min
  246. Watchmen of the Night about 2 min
  247. Captains Adventurous about 1 min
  248. North Sea about 1 min
  249. In Memoriam A. H. about 6 min
  250. To the Wingless Victory about 1 min
  251. Letter to an Aviator in France about 2 min
  252. To a Canadian Aviator who died for his Country in France about 1 min
  253. Captain Guynemer about 1 min
  254. Searchlights under 1 min
  255. Trafalgar Square about 1 min
  256. To a Soldier in Hospital about 1 min
  257. Between the Lines about 5 min
  258. Convalescence under 1 min
  259. Gassed about 1 min
  260. Invalided under 1 min
  261. The White Comrade about 2 min
  262. Out of the Conflict about 1 min
  263. The Dead about 1 min
  264. For the Fallen about 1 min
  265. Hic Jacet Qui in Hoc Saeculo Fideliter Militavit under 1 min
  266. Two Sonnets about 1 min
  267. The Dead about 1 min
  268. In Flanders Fields under 1 min
  269. The Anxious Dead about 1 min
  270. To Our Fallen about 1 min
  271. Lament under 1 min
  272. The Fallen Subaltern about 1 min
  273. A Harrow Grave in Flanders under 1 min
  274. Valley of the Shadow under 1 min
  275. The Debt about 2 min
  276. Riddles, R.F.C. under 1 min
  277. The Army of the Dead about 1 min
  278. The Spectral Army about 1 min
  279. To a Dog under 1 min
  280. For Francis Ledwidge about 1 min
  281. The Island of Skyros about 1 min
  282. The Last Hero under 1 min
  283. Rupert Brooke about 2 min
  284. Rupert Brooke (In Memoriam) under 1 min
  285. To Rupert Brooke under 1 min
  286. Kitchener about 1 min
  287. Lord Kitchener under 1 min
  288. Where Kitchener Sleeps about 1 min
  289. Kitchener's March about 1 min
  290. To the Memory of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts about 1 min
  291. Edith Cavell under 1 min
  292. Before Marching, and After about 1 min
  293. Telling the Bees about 1 min
  294. To our Dead under 1 min
  295. Gervais under 1 min
  296. The House of Death under 1 min
  297. The Dead under 1 min
  298. To the Fallen under 1 min
  299. Sportsmen in Paradise under 1 min
  300. The Dead about 1 min
  301. To a Canadian Lad, Killed in the War about 1 min
  302. In Memoriam about 1 min
  303. To Some Who have Fallen about 1 min
  304. The Silent Toast about 1 min
  305. Resurrection about 1 min
  306. The Players under 1 min
  307. Fallen about 1 min
  308. "Somewhere in France" about 1 min
  309. To Tony (aged 3) about 1 min
  310. To my Godson about 1 min
  311. New Heaven under 1 min
  312. Réveillé under 1 min
  313. The Old Soldier under 1 min
  314. A Lament from the Dead about 1 min
  315. The Call to Arms in our Street about 1 min
  316. The Endless Army about 1 min
  317. The Mother about 1 min
  318. The Devonshire Mother about 1 min
  319. My Son about 1 min
  320. The Heart-Cry under 1 min
  321. Homes under 1 min
  322. Harvest Moon about 1 min
  323. Song under 1 min
  324. Harvest Moon, 1916 about 1 min
  325. The Journey about 1 min
  326. Mother and Mate under 1 min
  327. Grey Knitting about 1 min
  328. Pierrot Goes to War about 1 min
  329. At Parting about 1 min
  330. Missing about 1 min
  331. Spring in War-Time under 1 min
  332. Clean Hands under 1 min
  333. "When there is Peace" under 1 min
  334. Peace under 1 min
  335. After the War about 1 min
  336. When It Is Finished under 1 min
  337. Réveillé about 1 min
  338. When I Come Home about 1 min
  339. INDEX OF AUTHORS, INDEX OF TITLES, INDEX OF FIRST LINES about 31 min

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CONTENTS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION

A TREASURY OF

WAR POETRY

BRITISH AND AMERICAN POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR, 1914-1919

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