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The Great War in Verse and Prose, edited by J. E. Wetherell, B.A

The Great War in Verse and Prose, edited by J. E. Wetherell, B.A

by J. E. Wetherell

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Editor
Wetherell, J. E. (James Elgin), 1851-1940
Title
The Great War in Verse and Prose
Credits
Produced by Brian Coe, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
Category
Text
eBook-No.
46427
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46427
Release Date
July 27, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE GREAT WAR IN VERSE AND PROSE
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION
  4. 4."FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE"
  5. 5.LORD KITCHENER'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BRITISH SOLDIER
  6. 6.PRO PATRIA
  7. 7.STATEMENT BY LORD KITCHENER
  8. 8.BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND MORNING
  9. 9.THE VIGIL
  10. 10.THE HOUR
  11. 11.OFF HELIGOLAND
  12. 12.A CALL TO ARMS
  13. 13.AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND
  14. 14.EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF RT. HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL
  15. 15.WHAT OF THE FIGHT?
  16. 16.THE MAN OF THE MARNE
  17. 17.COPY OF TELEGRAM FROM KING ALBERT TO KING GEORGE AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE
  18. 18.INDIA TO ENGLAND
  19. 19."A SCRAP OF PAPER"
  20. 20.THE TRIBUTE
  21. 21.EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF LORD KITCHENER AT THE GUILDHALL
  22. 22.THE KAISER
  23. 23.EXTRACT FROM DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS
  24. 24.THE CANADIAN
  25. 25.TO BELGIUM IN EXILE
  26. 26.A CHANT OF LOVE FOR ENGLAND
  27. 27."CANADIANS—CANADIANS—THAT'S ALL!"
  28. 28.FROM "A CANADIAN TWILIGHT"
  29. 29.WE WERE MEN OF THE FURROW
  30. 30.DEVON MEN
  31. 31.CHALK AND FLINT
  32. 32.A GRAVE IN FLANDERS
  33. 33.INTO BATTLE
  34. 34.CHRIST IN FLANDERS
  35. 35.THE BLIND MAN AND HIS SON
  36. 36.EXTRACT FROM "THE WAR AND THE SOUL"
  37. 37.THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH
  38. 38.RED POPPIES IN THE CORN
  39. 39.EXTRACT FROM LECTURE "HOW WE STAND NOW"
  40. 40.LUSITANIA
  41. 41.THE WHITE SHIPS AND THE RED
  42. 42.EXTRACT FROM SPEECH AT THE GUILDHALL, LONDON, ENGLAND
  43. 43.THE RED CROSS NURSE
  44. 44.EDITH CAVELL
  45. 45.THE SOLDIER
  46. 46.EXTRACT FROM "THE MEANING OF WAR"
  47. 47.TO OUR DEAD
  48. 48.THE DEAD
  49. 49.IN A BELGIAN GARDEN
  50. 50.". . . . . THAT HAVE NO DOUBTS"
  51. 51.ON THE RUE DU BOIS
  52. 52.EXTRACT FROM "FEAR GOD AND TAKE YOUR OWN PART"
  53. 53.TO THE MEMORY OF FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER
  54. 54.KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM
  55. 55.KITCHENER'S MARCH
  56. 56.THE CROWN OF EMPIRE
  57. 57.I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH
  58. 58.IN MEMORIAM
  59. 59.GUNS OF VERDUN
  60. 60.VERDUN
  61. 61.FOR THE FALLEN
  62. 62.IN FLANDERS FIELDS
  63. 63.THE ANXIOUS DEAD
  64. 64.EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE ON BECOMING PREMIER
  65. 65.SUBALTERNS
  66. 66.THE SEARCHLIGHTS
  67. 67.THE SEA IS HIS
  68. 68.VOLUNTEER
  69. 69.EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
  70. 70.FROM "VIMY RIDGE"
  71. 71.THE SILENT TOAST
  72. 72.PROSPICE
  73. 73.THE OUTER GUARD
  74. 74.SMALL CRAFT
  75. 75.EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF RT. HON. A. J. BALFOUR IN TORONTO
  76. 76.THE SPIRES OF OXFORD
  77. 77.EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF MONSIEUR VIVIANI IN OTTAWA
  78. 78.THE NAME OF FRANCE
  79. 79.EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH OF MARSHAL JOFFRE IN MONTREAL
  80. 80.FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT
  81. 81.WHAT HAS BRITAIN DONE?
  82. 82.EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
  83. 83.WHAT HAS ENGLAND DONE?
  84. 84.IN THE MORNING
  85. 85.ORDER TO THE CANADIAN ARMY CORPS
  86. 86.THE SOUL OF A NATION
  87. 87.THE LIVING LINE
  88. 88.AN HISTORIC ORDER
  89. 89.THE GUNS IN SUSSEX
  90. 90.TO A SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL
  91. 91.SPEECH DELIVERED BY LIEUT.-GEN. SIR A. W. CURRIE IN LONDON BEFORE AUGUST OFFENSIVE, 1918
  92. 92.THE AIR MEN
  93. 93.EXTRACTS FROM SPEECH
  94. 94.KING GEORGE'S MESSAGE TO THE NAVY
  95. 95.SKY SIGNS
  96. 96.ORDER TO THE CANADIANS AFTER THE CAPTURE OF MONS
  97. 97.TRIBUTE
  98. 98.ON THE NAVY
  99. 99.THE DEBT UNPAYABLE
  100. 100.KING GEORGE IN PARIS
  101. 101.BRITAIN'S DAY
  102. 102.GIFTS FROM THE DEAD
  103. 103.THE WOMAN'S TOLL
  104. 104.PILGRIMS
  105. 105.EPITAPHS FOR THE SLAIN
  106. 106.EXTRACT FROM FIELD-MARSHAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S OFFICIAL REPORT
  107. 107.PRESIDENT POINCARÉ AT THE OPENING OF THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
  108. 108.NATIONAL ANTHEM — FOOTNOTES:

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