Great Poems of the World War
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- GREAT POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- GREAT POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR
- BEFORE ACTION LIEUT. WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON
- ALAN SEEGER WASHINGTON VAN DUSEN
- THE NURSE in London Punch
- THE LITTLE HOME PAPER CHARLES HANSON TOWNE
- NO MAN’S LAND CAPT. JAMES H. KNIGHT-ADKIN
- THE GOLD STAR EDGAR A. GUEST
- WATCHIN’ OUT FOR SUBS U. A. L.
- FRENCH IN THE TRENCHES WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
- LITANY ALLENE GREGORY
- RAGNAROK The Twilight of the Gods
- THE KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS WILLIAM HERSCHELL
- A SCRAP OF PAPER HERBERT KAUFMAN
- POPPIES CAPT. JOHN MILLS HANSON, F.A.
- AS THE TRUCKS GO ROLLIN’ BY LIEUT. L. W. SUCKERT, A.S., U.S.A.
- THE GRAVES OF GALLIPOLI L. L. (A. N. Z. A. C.)
- BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD EDGAR A. GUEST
- “POOR OLD SHIP!” C. FOX SMITH
- PASSING THE BUCK SERGT. NORMAN E. NYGAARD, 313TH SN. TN.
- THE RETURN
- BULLINGTON
- THE PADRE CAPT. C. W. BLACKALL
- CORP’RAL’S CHEVRONS
- THE OLD TOP SERGEANT BERTON BRALEY
- FLAG EVERLASTING A. G. RIDDOCH
- THE BLUE AND THE GRAY IN FRANCE GEORGE M. MAYO
- A LITTLE TOWN IN SENEGAL WILL THOMPSON
- A LITTLE GRIMY-FINGERED GIRL LEE WILSON DODD
- SOLDIERS OF THE SOIL EVERARD JACK APPLETON
- THE CROSS AND THE FLAG WILLIAM HENRY, CARDINAL O’CONNELL
- THE ROAD TO FRANCE DANIEL M. HENDERSON
- NAZARETH “L”
- THE CRIMSON CROSS ELIZABETH BROWN DU BRIDGE
- PIERROT GOES CHARLOTTE BECKER
- A SERBIAN EPITAPH V. STANIMIROVIC
- THE NIGHTINGALES OF FLANDERS GRACE HAZARD CONKLING
- THE WIDOW MISS C. M. MITCHELL
- PERSHING AT THE TOMB OF LAFAYETTE AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR
- TRAINS LIEUT. JOHN PIERRE ROCHE
- CHRIST IN FLANDERS L. W.
- AN AMERICAN CREED EVERARD JACK APPLETON
- RUNNER McGEE (Who had “Return if Possible” Orders.)
- THE SOLDIER’S FOLKS AT HOME From The Christian Herald
- THREE HILLS EVERARD OWEN
- MIKE DILLON, DOUGHBOY LIEUT. JOHN PIERRE ROCHE
- WHEN THE FRENCH BAND PLAYS ANONYMOUS
- THE OLD GANG ON THE CORNER WILLIAM HERSCHELL
- THE BATTLE-LINE J. B. DOLLARD
- A CHANT OF ARMY COOKS ANONYMOUS
- THE DRUM JOSEPH LEE
- THE GREAT ADVENTURE MAJOR KENDALL BANNING
- TO THE WRITER OF “CHRIST IN FLANDERS” E. M. V.
- TO SOMEBODY HAROLD SETON
- WAR COL. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VISSCHER
- A MARCHING SOLILOQUY BY A MEMBER OF THE S. A. T. C., NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE, NAPERVILLE, ILL.
- WHILE SUMMERS PASS ALINE MICHAELIS
- THE MARINES ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE
- AN AMBULANCE DRIVER’S PRAYER LIEUT. CHAPLAIN THOMAS F. COAKLEY
- NOT TOO OLD TO FIGHT T. C. HARBAUGH
- A WAYSIDE IN FRANCE ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE
- MISSING “IRIS”
- THE RIVERS OF FRANCE H. J. M.
- JUST THINKING HUDSON HAWLEY
- THE EVENING STAR HAROLD SETON
- COLUMBIA’S PRAYER THOMAS P. BASHAW
- TWO VIEWPOINTS AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR
- DESTROYERS “KLAXON”
- NINETEEN-SEVENTEEN SUSAN HOOKER WHITMAN
- THE SILENT ARMY. IAN ADANAC
- THE SOURCE OF NEWS From The Needle
- TO MY SON
- EASTER-EGGS REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
- A DIRGE VICTOR PEROWNE
- THE WOMAN’S GAME Authorship not known
- A FLEMISH VILLAGE H. A.
- FRANCE CAPT. JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON
- THE CLERK B. H. M. HETHERINGTON
- POILU STEUART M. EMERY, A. E. F.
- AUSTRALIA’S MEN DOROTHEA MACKELLAR
- TANKS O. C. A. CHILD
- A HYMN OF FREEDOM MARY PERRY KING
- SWAN SONGS
- I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH[1]
- IN FLANDERS’ FIELDS
- THE SOLDIER[2]
- NOT WITH VAIN TEARS
- BUT A SHORT TIME TO LIVE
- THE LOST ONES
- THE FLAG SPEAKS WALTER E. PECK
- THE CALL (France, August 1st, 1914)
- THE CRUTCHES’ TUNE ELIZABETH R. STONER
- THE ANXIOUS DEAD LIEUT. COL. JOHN McCRAE
- HOME REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
- TO HAPPIER DAYS MABEL McELLIOTT
- YOUR LAD, AND MY LAD RANDALL PARRISH
- “AS SHE IS SPOKE” Boston Transcript
- THE SPIRES OF OXFORD (Seen from the Train)
- THE GENTLEMEN OF OXFORD NORAH M. HOLLAND
- WITH THE SAME PRIDE THEODOSIA GARRISON
- ACELDAMA DR. GEORGE F. BUTLER
- THE LONELY GARDEN EDGAR A. GUEST
- THE BRITISH ARMY OF 1914 ALFRED W. POLLARD
- MORITURI TE SALUTANT P. H. B. L.
- “BLIGHTY” AND “GONE WEST”
- BLIGHTY
- GOING WEST
- SPRING F.M.H.D., F.A.
- ON HIS OWN ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE
- THEY SHALL NOT PASS ALISON BROWN
- SHIPS THAT SAIL IN THE NIGHT DYSART McMULLEN
- JOHN DOE—BUCK PRIVATE ALLAN P. THOMSON
- KNITTING SOCKS
- THE GOLDENROD “ANCHUSA”
- MAGPIES IN PICARDY “TIPCUCA”
- SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, 1918 ALMON HENSLEY
- AFTERWARD CHARLES HANSON TOWNE
- THE SONG OF THE GUNS HERBERT KAUFMAN
- TELLING THE BEES (An old Gloucestershire superstition)
- THE RETINUE KATHARINE LEE BATES
- VIVE LA FRANCE! CHARLOTTE HOLMES CRAWFORD
- THE WOES OF A ROOKIE WILLIAM L. COLESTOCK
- IN THE FRONT-LINE DESKS LIEUT. ELMER FRANKLIN POWELL
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT (In Springfield, Illinois)
- THE KINGS HUGH J. HUGHES
- JEAN DESPREZ ROBERT W. SERVICE
- SUDDENLY ONE DAY AUTHOR UNKNOWN
- WE’RE MARCHIN’ WITH THE COUNTRY FRANK L. STANTON
- DO YOUR ALL EDGAR A. GUEST
- FLAG OF THE FREE FRANCIS T. SMITH
- THE SERVICE FLAG WILLIAM HERSCHELL
- A SMALL TOWN SPORT DAMON RUNYON
- SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE LE ROY C. HENDERSON
- THE SERVICE FLAG J. E. EVANS
- “HEARTS ARE TOUCHING”
- MEN OF THE BLOOD AND MIRE DANIEL M. HENDERSON
- THE SONG OF THE DEAD J. H. M. ABBOTT
- THE REFUGEES W. G. S.
- SONG OF THE WINDS MARY LANIER MAGRUDER
- “WHAT THINK YE?” W. A. BRISCOE
- THE MAN BEHIND DOUGLAS MALLOCH
- HERE AT VERDUN CHESTER M. WRIGHT
- THE ANXIOUS ANTHEMIST GUY FORRESTER LEE
- A RIDE IN FRANCE “O. C. PLATOON”
- THERE WILL BE DREAMS AGAIN MABEL HILLYER EASTMAN
- THE BOY NEXT DOOR S. E. KISER
- THE FLAG EDWARD A. HORTON
- THE WAR HORSE LIEUT. L. FLEMING, B. E. F., FRANCE
- PARENTHETICALLY SPEAKING. From The Chicago Tribune
- WORLD SERIES OPENED—BATTER UP! in The Stars and Stripes, A. E. F., France
- EDITH CAVELL McLANDBURGH WILSON
- TO SERVE IS TO GAIN CHARLES H. MACKINTOSH
- THEY SHALL RETURN J. LEWIS MILLIGAN
- “TO THE IRISH DEAD” BY ESSEX EVANS
- VISION DOROTHY PAUL
- RAIN ON YOUR OLD TIN HAT LIEUT. J. H. WICKERSHAM
- THE ARMED LINER H. SMALLEY SARSON
- THERE ARE CROCUSES AT NOTTINGHAM Written in the Trenches
- THE WAR ROSARY NELLIE HURST
- WHEN PRIVATE MUGRUMS PARLEY VOOS PVT. CHARLES DIVINE
- MULES C. FOX SMITH
- AN APRIL SONG GEORGE C. MICHAEL, LANCE CORPORAL, R. E.
- A SONG OF THE AIR GORDON ALCHIN
- VICTORY! S. J. DUNCAN-CLARK
- THE HOMECOMING LEROY FOLGE
- THE CROWN HELEN COMBES
- OUR SOLDIER DEAD ANNETTE KOHN
- LET THERE BE LIGHT! RUTH WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
- THE PRESENT BATTLE-FIELD WRIGHT FIELD
- NOVEMBER ELEVENTH ELIZABETH HANLY
- OLD JIM NORMAN SHANNON HALL
- THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER ARMISTICE DAY AT ARLINGTON GRANTLAND RICE
- EPITAPH FOR THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER ANNETTE KOHN
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