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George Herbert Clarke, ed. (1873–1953). A Treasury of War Poetry. 1917.

Contents

I. America
  1. The Choice
  2. “Liberty Enlightening the World”
  3. To the United States of America
  4. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
  5. The “William P. Frye”
II. England and America
  1. England and America
  2. To America
  3. A Chant of love for England
  4. At St. Paul’s: April 20, 1917
  5. Jimmy Doane
  6. Princeton, May, 1917
III. England
  1. The Vigil
  2. “For All we Have and Are”
  3. England to Free Men
  4. Pro Patria
  5. Lines Written in Surrey, 1917
IV. France
  1. France
  2. The Name of France
  3. Vive la France!
  4. The Soul of Jeanne d’Arc
  5. O Glorious France
  6. To France
  7. Place de la Concorde
  8. To France
  9. Qui Vive?
V. Belgium
  1. To the Belgians
  2. Belgium
  3. To Belgium
  4. To Belgium in Exile
  5. The Wife of Flanders
VI. Russia and America
  1. Russia—America
  2. To Russia New and Free
VII. Italy
  1. Italy in Arms
  2. On the Italian Front, MCMXVI
VIII. Australia
  1. Australia to England
IX. Canada
  1. Canada to England
  2. Langemarck at Ypres
  3. Canadians
X. Liège
  1. The Kaiser and Belgium
  2. The Battle of Liège
XI. Verdun
  1. Men of Verdun
  2. Verdun
  3. Guns of Verdun
XII. Oxford
  1. The Spires of Oxford
  2. Oxford in War-Time
  3. Oxford Revisited in War-Time
XIII. Reflections
  1. Sonnets Written in the Fall of 1914
  2. The War Films
  3. The Searchlights
  4. Christmas: 1915
  5. “Men who March Away”
  6. We Willed it Not
  7. The Death of Peace
  8. In War-Time
  9. The Anvil
  10. The Pool Rings his Bells
  11. The Road to Dieppe
  12. To Fellow Travellers in Greece
  13. “When there is Peace”
  14. A Prayer in Time of War
  15. Then and Now
  16. The Kaiser and God
  17. The Superman
  18. Three Hills
XIV. Incidents And Aspects
  1. The Return
  2. The Mobilization in Brittany
  3. The Toy Band
  4. Thomas of the Light Heart
  5. In the Trenches
  6. The Guards Came Through
  7. The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible
  8. Edith Cavell
  9. The Hell-Gate of Soissons
  10. The Virgin of Albert
  11. Retreat
  12. A Letter from the Front
  13. Rheims Cathedral—1914
XV. Poets Militant (The authors of the poems included in this section are or were on active service.)
  1. I Have a Rendezvous with Death
  2. The Soldier
  3. Expectans Expectavi
  4. The Volunteer
  5. Into Battle
  6. The Cricketers of Flanders
  7. “All the Hills and Vales Along”
  8. No Man’s Land
  9. Champagne, 1914–15
  10. Headquarters
  11. Home Thoughts from Leventie
  12. A Petition
  13. Fulfilment
  14. The Day’s March
  15. The Sign
  16. The Trenches
  17. Sonnets
  18. The Messines Road
  19. The Challenge of the Guns
  20. The Beach Road by the Wood
  21. German Prisoners
  22. “—But a Short Time to Live”
  23. Before Action
  24. Courage
  25. Optimism
  26. The Battlefield
  27. “On Les Aura!”
  28. To an Old Lady Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
  29. The Casualty Clearing Station
  30. Hills of Home
XVI. Auxiliaries
  1. The Red Cross Spirit Speaks
  2. Chaplain to the Forces
  3. Song of the Red Cross
  4. The Healers
  5. The Red Cross Nurses
XVII. Keeping the Seas
  1. Kilmeny
  2. The Mine-Sweepers
  3. Mare Liberum
  4. The Dawn Patrol
  5. Destroyers off Jutland
  6. British Merchant Service
XVIII. The Wounded
  1. To a Soldier in Hospital
  2. Between the Lines
  3. The White Comrade
  4. Fleurette
  5. Not to Keep
XIX. The Fallen
  1. The Dead
  2. The Island of Skyros
  3. For the Fallen
  4. Two Sonnets
  5. “How Sleep the Brave!”
  6. The Debt
  7. Requiescant
  8. To our Fallen
  9. The Old Soldier
  10. Lord Kitchener
  11. Kitchener
  12. The Fallen Subaltern
  13. The Debt Unpayable
  14. The Messages
  15. A Cross in Flanders
  16. Resurrection
  17. To a Hero
  18. Rupert Brooke
  19. The Players
  20. A Song
XX. Women and the War
  1. Harvest Moon
  2. Harvest Moon: 1916
  3. My Son
  4. To the Others
  5. The Journey
  6. A Mother’s Dedication
  7. To a Mother
  8. Spring in War-Time