Great Poems of The World War

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Eaton, William Dunseath

Title

Great Poems of the World War

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Produced by Brian Coe, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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English

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D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

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World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 56956

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April 10, 2018

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.GREAT POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS — GREAT POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR
4. 4.BEFORE ACTION LIEUT. WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON
5. 5.ALAN SEEGER WASHINGTON VAN DUSEN
6. 6.THE NURSE in London Punch
7. 7.THE LITTLE HOME PAPER CHARLES HANSON TOWNE
8. 8.NO MAN’S LAND CAPT. JAMES H. KNIGHT-ADKIN
9. 9.THE GOLD STAR EDGAR A. GUEST
10. 10.WATCHIN’ OUT FOR SUBS U. A. L.
11. 11.FRENCH IN THE TRENCHES WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
12. 12.LITANY ALLENE GREGORY
13. 13.RAGNAROK The Twilight of the Gods
14. 14.THE KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS WILLIAM HERSCHELL
15. 15.A SCRAP OF PAPER HERBERT KAUFMAN
16. 16.POPPIES CAPT. JOHN MILLS HANSON, F.A.
17. 17.AS THE TRUCKS GO ROLLIN’ BY LIEUT. L. W. SUCKERT, A.S., U.S.A.
18. 18.THE GRAVES OF GALLIPOLI L. L. (A. N. Z. A. C.)
19. 19.BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD EDGAR A. GUEST
20. 20.“POOR OLD SHIP!” C. FOX SMITH
21. 21.PASSING THE BUCK SERGT. NORMAN E. NYGAARD, 313TH SN. TN.
22. 22.THE RETURN
23. 23.BULLINGTON
24. 24.THE PADRE CAPT. C. W. BLACKALL
25. 25.CORP’RAL’S CHEVRONS
26. 26.THE OLD TOP SERGEANT BERTON BRALEY
27. 27.FLAG EVERLASTING A. G. RIDDOCH
28. 28.THE BLUE AND THE GRAY IN FRANCE GEORGE M. MAYO
29. 29.A LITTLE TOWN IN SENEGAL WILL THOMPSON
30. 30.A LITTLE GRIMY-FINGERED GIRL LEE WILSON DODD
31. 31.SOLDIERS OF THE SOIL EVERARD JACK APPLETON
32. 32.THE CROSS AND THE FLAG WILLIAM HENRY, CARDINAL O’CONNELL
33. 33.THE ROAD TO FRANCE DANIEL M. HENDERSON
34. 34.NAZARETH “L”
35. 35.THE CRIMSON CROSS ELIZABETH BROWN DU BRIDGE
36. 36.PIERROT GOES CHARLOTTE BECKER
37. 37.A SERBIAN EPITAPH V. STANIMIROVIC
38. 38.THE NIGHTINGALES OF FLANDERS GRACE HAZARD CONKLING
39. 39.THE WIDOW MISS C. M. MITCHELL
40. 40.PERSHING AT THE TOMB OF LAFAYETTE AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR
41. 41.TRAINS LIEUT. JOHN PIERRE ROCHE
42. 42.CHRIST IN FLANDERS L. W.
43. 43.AN AMERICAN CREED EVERARD JACK APPLETON
44. 44.RUNNER McGEE ( Who had “Return if Possible” Orders. )
45. 45.THE SOLDIER’S FOLKS AT HOME From The Christian Herald
46. 46.THREE HILLS EVERARD OWEN
47. 47.MIKE DILLON, DOUGHBOY LIEUT. JOHN PIERRE ROCHE
48. 48.WHEN THE FRENCH BAND PLAYS ANONYMOUS
49. 49.THE OLD GANG ON THE CORNER WILLIAM HERSCHELL
50. 50.THE BATTLE-LINE J. B. DOLLARD
51. 51.A CHANT OF ARMY COOKS ANONYMOUS
52. 52.THE DRUM JOSEPH LEE
53. 53.THE GREAT ADVENTURE MAJOR KENDALL BANNING
54. 54.TO THE WRITER OF “CHRIST IN FLANDERS” E. M. V.
55. 55.TO SOMEBODY HAROLD SETON
56. 56.WAR COL. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VISSCHER
57. 57.A MARCHING SOLILOQUY BY A MEMBER OF THE S. A. T. C., NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE, NAPERVILLE, ILL.
58. 58.WHILE SUMMERS PASS ALINE MICHAELIS
59. 59.THE MARINES ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE
60. 60.AN AMBULANCE DRIVER’S PRAYER LIEUT. CHAPLAIN THOMAS F. COAKLEY
61. 61.NOT TOO OLD TO FIGHT T. C. HARBAUGH
62. 62.A WAYSIDE IN FRANCE ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE
63. 63.MISSING “IRIS”
64. 64.THE RIVERS OF FRANCE H. J. M.
65. 65.JUST THINKING HUDSON HAWLEY
66. 66.THE EVENING STAR HAROLD SETON
67. 67.COLUMBIA’S PRAYER THOMAS P. BASHAW
68. 68.TWO VIEWPOINTS AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR
69. 69.DESTROYERS “KLAXON”
70. 70.NINETEEN-SEVENTEEN SUSAN HOOKER WHITMAN
71. 71.THE SILENT ARMY. IAN ADANAC
72. 72.THE SOURCE OF NEWS From The Needle
73. 73.TO MY SON
74. 74.EASTER-EGGS REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
75. 75.A DIRGE VICTOR PEROWNE
76. 76.THE WOMAN’S GAME Authorship not known
77. 77.A FLEMISH VILLAGE H. A.
78. 78.FRANCE CAPT. JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON
79. 79.THE CLERK B. H. M. HETHERINGTON
80. 80.POILU STEUART M. EMERY, A. E. F.
81. 81.AUSTRALIA’S MEN DOROTHEA MACKELLAR
82. 82.TANKS O. C. A. CHILD
83. 83.A HYMN OF FREEDOM MARY PERRY KING
84. 84.SWAN SONGS
85. 85.I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH [1]
86. 86.IN FLANDERS’ FIELDS
87. 87.THE SOLDIER [2]
88. 88.NOT WITH VAIN TEARS
89. 89.BUT A SHORT TIME TO LIVE
90. 90.THE LOST ONES
91. 91.THE FLAG SPEAKS WALTER E. PECK
92. 92.THE CALL ( France, August 1st, 1914 )
93. 93.THE CRUTCHES’ TUNE ELIZABETH R. STONER
94. 94.THE ANXIOUS DEAD LIEUT. COL. JOHN McCRAE
95. 95.HOME REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
96. 96.TO HAPPIER DAYS MABEL McELLIOTT
97. 97.YOUR LAD, AND MY LAD RANDALL PARRISH
98. 98.“AS SHE IS SPOKE” Boston Transcript
99. 99.THE SPIRES OF OXFORD ( Seen from the Train )
100. 100.THE GENTLEMEN OF OXFORD NORAH M. HOLLAND
101. 101.WITH THE SAME PRIDE THEODOSIA GARRISON
102. 102.ACELDAMA DR. GEORGE F. BUTLER
103. 103.THE LONELY GARDEN EDGAR A. GUEST
104. 104.THE BRITISH ARMY OF 1914 ALFRED W. POLLARD
105. 105.MORITURI TE SALUTANT P. H. B. L.
106. 106.“BLIGHTY” AND “GONE WEST”
107. 107.BLIGHTY
108. 108.GOING WEST
109. 109.SPRING F.M.H.D., F.A.
110. 110.ON HIS OWN ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE
111. 111.THEY SHALL NOT PASS ALISON BROWN
112. 112.SHIPS THAT SAIL IN THE NIGHT DYSART McMULLEN
113. 113.JOHN DOE—BUCK PRIVATE ALLAN P. THOMSON
114. 114.KNITTING SOCKS
115. 115.THE GOLDENROD “ANCHUSA”
116. 116.MAGPIES IN PICARDY “TIPCUCA”
117. 117.SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, 1918 ALMON HENSLEY
118. 118.AFTERWARD CHARLES HANSON TOWNE
119. 119.THE SONG OF THE GUNS HERBERT KAUFMAN
120. 120.TELLING THE BEES ( An old Gloucestershire superstition )
121. 121.THE RETINUE KATHARINE LEE BATES
122. 122.VIVE LA FRANCE! CHARLOTTE HOLMES CRAWFORD
123. 123.THE WOES OF A ROOKIE WILLIAM L. COLESTOCK
124. 124.IN THE FRONT-LINE DESKS LIEUT. ELMER FRANKLIN POWELL
125. 125.ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT ( In Springfield, Illinois )
126. 126.THE KINGS HUGH J. HUGHES
127. 127.JEAN DESPREZ ROBERT W. SERVICE
128. 128.SUDDENLY ONE DAY AUTHOR UNKNOWN
129. 129.WE’RE MARCHIN’ WITH THE COUNTRY FRANK L. STANTON
130. 130.DO YOUR ALL EDGAR A. GUEST
131. 131.FLAG OF THE FREE FRANCIS T. SMITH
132. 132.THE SERVICE FLAG WILLIAM HERSCHELL
133. 133.A SMALL TOWN SPORT DAMON RUNYON
134. 134.SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE LE ROY C. HENDERSON
135. 135.THE SERVICE FLAG J. E. EVANS
136. 136.“HEARTS ARE TOUCHING”
137. 137.MEN OF THE BLOOD AND MIRE DANIEL M. HENDERSON
138. 138.THE SONG OF THE DEAD J. H. M. ABBOTT
139. 139.THE REFUGEES W. G. S.
140. 140.SONG OF THE WINDS MARY LANIER MAGRUDER
141. 141.“WHAT THINK YE?” W. A. BRISCOE
142. 142.THE MAN BEHIND DOUGLAS MALLOCH
143. 143.HERE AT VERDUN CHESTER M. WRIGHT
144. 144.THE ANXIOUS ANTHEMIST GUY FORRESTER LEE
145. 145.A RIDE IN FRANCE “O. C. PLATOON”
146. 146.THERE WILL BE DREAMS AGAIN MABEL HILLYER EASTMAN
147. 147.THE BOY NEXT DOOR S. E. KISER
148. 148.THE FLAG EDWARD A. HORTON
149. 149.THE WAR HORSE LIEUT. L. FLEMING, B. E. F., FRANCE
150. 150.PARENTHETICALLY SPEAKING. From The Chicago Tribune
151. 151.WORLD SERIES OPENED—BATTER UP! in The Stars and Stripes, A. E. F., France
152. 152.EDITH CAVELL McLANDBURGH WILSON
153. 153.TO SERVE IS TO GAIN CHARLES H. MACKINTOSH
154. 154.THEY SHALL RETURN J. LEWIS MILLIGAN
155. 155.“TO THE IRISH DEAD” BY ESSEX EVANS
156. 156.VISION DOROTHY PAUL
157. 157.RAIN ON YOUR OLD TIN HAT LIEUT. J. H. WICKERSHAM
158. 158.THE ARMED LINER H. SMALLEY SARSON
159. 159.THERE ARE CROCUSES AT NOTTINGHAM Written in the Trenches
160. 160.THE WAR ROSARY NELLIE HURST
161. 161.WHEN PRIVATE MUGRUMS PARLEY VOOS PVT. CHARLES DIVINE
162. 162.MULES C. FOX SMITH
163. 163.AN APRIL SONG GEORGE C. MICHAEL, LANCE CORPORAL, R. E.
164. 164.A SONG OF THE AIR GORDON ALCHIN
165. 165.VICTORY! S. J. DUNCAN-CLARK
166. 166.THE HOMECOMING LEROY FOLGE
167. 167.THE CROWN HELEN COMBES
168. 168.OUR SOLDIER DEAD ANNETTE KOHN
169. 169.LET THERE BE LIGHT! RUTH WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
170. 170.THE PRESENT BATTLE-FIELD WRIGHT FIELD
171. 171.NOVEMBER ELEVENTH ELIZABETH HANLY
172. 172.OLD JIM NORMAN SHANNON HALL
173. 173.THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER ARMISTICE DAY AT ARLINGTON GRANTLAND RICE
174. 174.EPITAPH FOR THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER ANNETTE KOHN
175. 175.INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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