George Herbert Clarke, ed. (1873–1953). A Treasury of War Poetry. 1917.
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Mr. Francis Bickley and the Westminster Gazette:—“The Players,”
Mr. F. W. Bourdillon and the Spectator:—“The Debt Unpayable.”
Dr. Robert Bridges and the London Times:—“Lord Kitchener,” and “To the United States of America.”
Mr. Dana Burnet and the New York Evening Sun:—“The Battle of Liege.”
Mr. Wilfred Campbell and the Ottawa Evening Journal:—“Langemarck at Ypres.”
Mr. Patrick R. Chalmers and Punch:—“Guns of Verdun.”
Mr. Cecil Chesterton and The New Witness:—“France.”
Mr. Oscar C. A. Child and Harper’s Magazine:—“To a Hero.”
Mr. Reginald McIntosh Cleveland and the New York Times:—“Destroyers off Jutland.”
Miss Charlotte Holmes Crawford and Scribner’s Magazine:—“Vive la France!”
Mr. Moray Dalton and the Spectator:—“Rupert Brooke.”
Lord Desborough and the London Times:—“Into Battle,” by the late Captain Julian Grenfell.
Professor W. Macneile Dixon and the London Times:—“To Fellow Travellers in Greece.”
Mr. Austin Dobson and the Spectator:—“‘When There Is Peace.’”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the London Times:—“The Guards Came Through.”
Mr. John Finley and the Atlantic Monthly:—“The Road to Dieppe”; Mr. Finley, the American Red Cross, and the Red Cross Magazine:—“The Red Cross Spirit Speaks.”
Mr. John Freeman and the Westminster Gazette:—“The Return.”
Mr. Robert Frost and the Yale Review:—“Not to Keep.”
Mr. John Galsworthy and the Westminster Gazette:—“England to Free Men”; Mr. Galsworthy and the London Chronicle:—“Russia—America.”
Mrs. Theodosia Garrison and Scribner’s Magazine:—“The Soul of Jeanne d’Arc.”
Lady Glenconner and the London Times:—“Rome Thoughts from Laventie,” by the late Lieutenant E. Wyndham Tennant.
Mr. Robert Grant and the Nation (New York):—“The Superman.”
Mr. Hermann Hagedorn and the Century Magazine:—“Resurrection.”
Mr. James Norman Hall and the Spectator:—“The Cricketers of Flanders.”
Mr. Thomas Hardy and the London Times:—“Men Who March Away,” and “Then and Now.”
Mr. John Helston and the English Review:—“Kitchener.”
Mr. Maurice Hewlett:—“In the Trenches,” from Sing-Songs of the War (The Poetry Bookshop).
Dr. A. E. Hillard:—“The Dawn Patrol,” by Lieutenant Paul Bewsher.
Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson:—“To the Others” and “The Old Soldier.”
Mrs. Florence T. Holt and the Atlantic Monthly:—“England and America.”
Mr. William Dean Howells and the North American Review:—“The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible.”
Lady Hutchinson:—“Sonnets,” by the late Lieutenant Henry William Hutchinson.
Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson:—“To Russia New and Free,” from Poems of War and Peace, published by the author.
Mr. Rudyard Kipling:—“The Choice”; “‘For All we Have and Are’”; and “The Mine-Sweepers.” (Copyright, 1915, by Rudyard Kipling.)
Captain James H. Knight-Adkin and the Spectator:—“No Man’s Land” and “On Les Aura!”
Sergeant Joseph Lee and the Spectator:—“German Prisoners.”
Mr. E. V. Lucas and the Sphere:—“The Debt.”
Mr. Walter de la Mare and the London Times:—“‘How Steep the Brave!’”; Mr. de la Mare and the Westminster Gazette:—“The Fool Rings his Bells.”
Mr. Edward Marsh, literary executor of the late Rupert Brooke:—“The Soldier” and “The Dead.”
Mr. Thomas L. Masson:—“The Red Cross Nurses,” from the Red Cross Magazine.
Lieutenant Charles Langbridge Morgan and the Westminster Gazette:—“To America.”
Sir Henry Newbolt:—“The Vigil”; “The War Films”; “The Toy Band,” and “A Letter from the Front.”
Mr. Alfred Noyes:—“Princeton, May, 1917”; “The Searchlights” (London Times), “A Prayer in Time of War” (London Daily Mail), and “Kilmeny.”
Mr. Will H. Ogilvie and Country Life:—“Canadians.”
Mr. Barry Pain and the London Times:—“The Kaiser and God.”
Miss Marjorie Pickthall and the London Times:—“Canada to England.”
Canon H. D. Rawnsley and the Westminster Gazette:—“At St. Paul’s, April 20, 1917.”
Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond:—“A Song.”
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ronald Ross and the Poetry Review:—“The Death of Peace.”
Mr. Robert Haven Schauffler:—“The White Comrade.”
Mr. W. Snow and the Spectator:—“Oxford in War-Time.”
Mrs. Grace Ellery Channing Stetson and the New York Tribune:—“Qui Vive?”
Mr. Rowland Thirlmere and the Poetry Review:—“Jimmy Doane.”
Mrs. Ada Tyrrell and the Saturday Review:—“My Son.”
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 Athenæum:—“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 Westminster Gazette:—“Lines Written in Surrey, 1917,” by George Herbert Clarke.
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, from Ardours and Endurances.
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.
William Heinemann:—“To our Fallen” and “A Petition” (the London Times), by the late Lieutenant Robert Ernest Vernède.
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, 1916,” 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.
The John Lane Company:—“The Wife of Flanders,” by Gilbert K. Chesterton, from Poems (published also by Messrs. Burns and Oates, 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 1914, 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.
Messrs. Macmillan & Company:—“Australia to England,” by Archibald T. Strong, from Sonnets of the Empire, and “Men Who March Away,” by Thomas Hardy, from Satires of Circumstance.
Elkin Mathews:—“The British Merchant Service” (the Spectator), by C. Fox Smith, from The Naval Crown.
John Murray:—“The Sign,” and “The Trenches,” by Lieutenant Frederic Manning.
The Princeton University Press:—“To France,” by Herbert Jones, from A Book of Princeton Verse.
Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons:—“I Have a Rendezvous with Death,” and “Champagne, 1914–1915,” by the late Alan Seeger, from Poems.
Messrs. Sherman, French & Company:—“The William P. Frye” (New York Times), by Jeanne Robert Foster, from Wild Apples.
Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson:—“We Willed It Not” (The Sphere), by John Drinkwater; “Three Hills” (London Times), by Everard Owen, from Three Hills, and Other Poems; “The Volunteer,” and “The Fallen Subaltern,” by Lieutenant Herbert Asquith, from The Volunteer, and Other Poems.
Messrs. Truslove and Hanson:—“A Mother’s Dedication,” by Margaret Peterson, from The Women’s Message.