A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917. Various
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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 Turrell 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 Athenaeum:—"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 London Times:—"To Our Fallen" and "A Petition," by the late Lieutenant Robert Ernest Vernède.
The Westminster Gazette:—"Lines Written in Surrey, 1917," by George Herbert Clarke.
Messrs. Barse & Hopkins:—"Fleurette," by Robert W. Service.
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.
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.
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, 1915," 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 Gates, 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 19l4, 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.
INTRODUCTION
Because man is both militant and pacific, he has expressed in literature, as indeed in the other forms of art, his pacific and militant moods. Nor are these moods, of necessity, incompatible. War may become the price of peace, and peace may so decay as inevitably to bring about war. Of the dully unresponsive pacificist and the jingo patriot, quick to anger, the latter no doubt is the more dangerous to the cause of true freedom, yet both are "undesirable citizens." He who believes that peace is illusory and spurious, unless it be based upon justice and liberty, will be proud to battle, if battle he must, for the sake of those foundations.
For the most part, the poetry of war, undertaken in this spirit, has touched and exalted such special qualities as patriotism, courage, self- sacrifice, enterprise, and endurance. Where it has tended to glorify war in itself, it is chiefly because war has released those qualities, so to speak, in stirring and spectacular ways; and where it has chosen to round upon war and to upbraid it, it is because war has slain ardent and lovable youths and has brought misery and despair to women and old people. But the war poet has left the mere arguments to others. For himself, he has seen and felt. Envisaging war from various angles, now romantically, now realistically, now as the celebrating chronicler, now as the contemplative interpreter, but always in a spirit of catholic curiosity, he has sung, the fall of Troy, the Roman adventures, the mediaeval