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35780***** Do you remember, old fellow, When we fished near Altenahr, Where the red wine was flowing And the bowl flashed a star?
35780But, Mister, I''ve a thing to ask;--_ Am I not beautiful?_ Speak true."
35780Do you remember the big schutzmann, With his sword by his side, Who guessed that you were poaching, And scared you off to hide?
36094How can we Fool the Rooster?
40462And must they cry in vain?
40462And who has oil and wine enough?
40462[ Illustration] Oh, who shall staunch such world- wide woe-- Such universe of pain?
20123SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC Who knows how many thousand years ago The twelvefold Zodiac was made to show The course of stars above and men below?
20123V What wreaths shall we entwine For our dear boys to deck their holy shrine?
20123What flags are these that dumbly droop from the gaff o''the mainmast tall?
20123Why should we care to be alive Unless the world is free?
35996What widows, orphans, sweethearts see their dead This cruel, hopeless dawn?
35996Who could but think-- deep in some sun- flecked glade-- How God must love these things that He has made?
35996Why such grief am I to know?
35996Why?
35996are you more than just a passing dream Beside the city''s slim and lovely stream?
47144Are you cold too, poor Pleiads, This frosty night?
47144Did you hear that, Great She- bear, This frosty night?
47144How is your trade, Aquarius, This frosty night?
47144What do you hunt, Orion, This starry night?
47144Angelic choirs?
47144For those who live uprightly and die true Heaven has no bars or locks, And serves all taste.... Or what''s for him to do Up there, but hunt the fox?
47144I have often felt and sung,"It''s a good thing to be young: Though the preacher says it''s folly, Is it foolish to be jolly?"
47144OVER THE BRAZIER What life to lead and where to go After the War, after the War?
47144PART I.--Poems Mostly Written at Charterhouse--1910- 1914 STAR- TALK"Are you awake, Gemelli, This frosty night?"
47144Some bad fairy stole The baby I nursed: Was this my pretty little soul, This changeling accursed?
47144THE TRENCHES(_ Heard in the Ranks_) Scratches in the dirt?
15937Going to keep that sweater?
15937Whatcha got there, Buddy?
15937( One''s enough, I''ll say) How the hell''d you do it On five sous a day?
15937I suppose we''ll keep on going-- Huh?
15937The Skipper''s faced about?
15937Then up in the trenches It was just the same,"When''s it going to finish?"
15937This is the kind of man who made that victory possible[ Illustration: A"walking case"] A"walking case"-- France, August-18[ Illustration: Toul(?)
15937What the hell''s the rush to get-- out there?
15937What''s the use?
15937Where''d I put that plug of Climax?
15937Where''s Charlie?
41985( Up to date) 28 Farewells à la Mode 29 Sunset 30 Sursum Corda 31 Lying in State 32 Wind- pedlars 33 Dulce et Decorum?
4198535 Succory 36 Dreams Trespassing 37"What shall be done with all these tears of ours?"
41985What comforting makes them strong?
41985What faith in our victory?
41985What heaven- sent hilarity?
41985What hopes that beguile and bless?
41985What mirth and what weariness?
41985What trust and what fears have they That march without music or song To death at the end of the way?
41985What valour from vanished years In the heart of youth confined?
41985What wellsprings of unshed tears For the loves they leave behind?
41985_"What shall be done with all these tears of ours?
33681And how shall I repay?
33681Has your last word of sophistry been said, O cult of slaves?
33681Have I not reared for thee time and again And bid go forth to share thy fierce embraces Sea- ducks, sea- wolves, sea- rovers, and sea- men?
33681How should I pay for one poor graven steeple Whereon you shattered what you shall not know?
33681How should I pay you, miserable people, How should I pay you everything you owe?
33681If he would bargain for thy friend, What would he trade for Liberty?
33681Must I for more than carnage call you claimant, Paying you a penny for each son you slay?
33681Say, thou, who hast watched through ages that are lengthless, Whom have I feared, and when did I forget?
33681Though I forgave, would any man forget?
33681Unhappy, can I give you back your honour?
33681What is the price of that dead man they brought me?
33681What is the price of that red spark that caught me From a kind farm that never had a name?
33681What sons of mine have shunned thy whorls and races?
52559```` Did she?
52559```` What are the men about?
52559```` What do his heart- strings drone all day?
52559```` What do they throb all night?
52559```` What does he sit and write?
52559```` What were his chances of coming````` through?
52559```` Which of his friends remain?
52559```` Would_ they_ choose to have````` lived and lost?
52559````"My Sergeant''s plan, Sir"--````"And that''s not bad--```` But you''ve lost that ribbon````` you wear?"
52559````"What''s wrong with that mir-````` ror?"''
52559|AND Ermyntrude, did she````` lose her all```` Or find it, two years ago?
52559|IS it a part of the dream of````` dread?
52559|WHAT, indeed, does the```` Ensign say?
37154Do you hear the call of our Mother From over the sea, from over the sea?
37154Do you hear the call of our Mother From over the sea, from over the sea?
37154GOD''S NEW YEAR''S GIFT What shall the coming year bring forth, O Lord, who rulest the land?
37154Have they asked from Thee a sign?
37154Is it"Bobs"of Kandahar the Empire''s armies led?
37154Is this your culture, sons of Kant, And ye who kneel''round Goethe''s throne?
37154The battalions in the field go forth; They arm in mighty line; Do they kneel to know Thy holy will?
37154To carry in your knapsacks death?
37154To feel for man nor ruth nor moan?
37154What''vail your cities, walls and towers If half your progress be a lie?
37154What''vails it now your mighty guns If God be mightier in the sky?
37154Who is he that cometh to join our mighty dead?
37154You have sought more spacious realm In the free and genial sun: Has your sceptre widened any With the salvo of each gun?
37154_ For Sir Wilfrid Laurier._ THE BUGLE CALL Do you hear the call of our Mother, From over the sea, from over the sea?
9388Am I a starving beggar girl? 9388 Now come,"she said to the captains ten, Who were ready to put to sea,"Ye are all my men and my father''s men, And what will ye do for me?"
9388A SCRAP OF PAPER"Will you go to war just for a scrap of paper?"
9388And shall they ring to- night, Malines?
9388But dost_ thou_ prosper?
9388Do you hear the storm of cheers Mingled with the women''s tears And the tramp, tramp, tramp of marching feet?
9388Do you hear the throbbing drum As the hosts of battle come Keeping time, time, time to its beat?
9388In this fair land of freedom and romance?
9388Is it the end of all?
9388MARE LIBERUM I You dare to say with perjured lips,"We fight to make the ocean free"?
9388O dearest country, is it well with thee Indeed, and is thy soul in health?
9388Shall I ever lack for bread?"
9388To signal war''s alarms, Hark, a sudden trumpet calling Over the hill Why are you calling, trumpet, calling?
9388What is your will?
9388What tunes are these that gently fall Around you like a benison?
9388Will the land crumble and fall?
34966For what man Would come among you sober?
34966Fragile, tremulous Haunters of the deep glades, Whose fingers part the leaves Of beech and aspen ere ye slip thro'', Shall I see ye again?
34966Hath not thy child, Persephone, tall men, Yea, even all the children of the earth, Bringing her tribute?
34966How may love snare thy soul, or know the ways thereof?
34966How may mine eyes behold my naked soul No more arrayed in wings of my desire?
34966How shall I come again into my peace, So heavy is the darkness on eyes and feet?
34966How shall I forget?
34966Knowing no longer that earth Lieth in the dews, shining and sacred?
34966Let us laugh and understand each other, For how could I blame you, my friends, When ye are so generous With the fruit of your thefts?
34966Love, who begat us, shall Love slay us utterly?
34966REACTION What make you here, Aphrodite, Lady of the Golden Cymbals, Would you dance to awaken earth again As of old on Ida?
34966Sit''st thou thus wisely silent, With subtile and inviolate eyes, Knowing us but the shadow of thy substance, As transitory as the leaves?
34966THE FAUN Kore, O Kore, where art thou fled, Now that the spring blows white in the land?
34966What gifts have we to bring the Lord?
34966What have ye, O wise ones?
34966What maketh Mary''s face so pale?
34966Who shall forget thee having seen thy face?
34966Who shall hoard up life As it were but a heap of golden discs?
34966Ye go forth into the furrows, but who shall come to the reaping?
34966Ye, being mockers, said: What profiteth him his singing?
34966Yet what song shall snare the feet Of white dawn upon the wheat?
34966but thou wert too fair To seek among the dim realms of the dead Love: and what hands will tremble in thine hair Or lips faint on thy lips?
16904''Ello, soldier, howja do?
16904How are you doing? 16904 Soldier, soldier, how''re you?"
16904And when the scrap is past and done, Where''s Trigger Ribb?
16904Billy Khaki, is''t the splendor of the song the kiddies sing, Or the whipping of the flags aloft that sets your heart a- swing?
16904Dames ez smilin''ez a mother, Ev''ry man ver fav''rit brother:"''Ello, Jumbo, how is it?"
16904Good''n''fit?"
16904Great it is, the''earty greetin''s, Friendly digs,''n''cheerful meetin''s"''Ello, Jumbo, howja do?"
16904He flung away-- how should he know My foolish heart was dancin''so?
16904How should he know that at his word My soul was trillin''like a bird?
16904Is''t the cheering like a paean of the toss- ing, teeming crowds, Or the boom of distant cannon flatly bumping on the clouds?
16904Long, cold lagers from the wood, Ev''ry cobber jumpin''at you, Strangers duckin''in to bat you-"Good ole Jumbo, how''re you?"
16904Say,''oo has a better right to?
16904Says Tom:"Who rides the mail track now?
16904We got no beer, the soup was bad- Now oo will stand the soldier lad The swag of honest liquor that for years he has n''t''ad?"
16904Well, where''s the single- handed brace Will take us on?
16904What is calling, Billy Khaki, that you''re foot- ing it so free?
16904What is calling, Billy Khaki?
16904What''s calling, calling, Billy?
16904Where is war''s pomp and circumstance, The gauds in which we prank it?
16904Where''s yer bloomin''sense iv duty?
16904Where''s yer''orse sense, little feller?
16904Who herdin''Stringer''s cattle?"
16904You furnished heroes for the fray, Your sterling merit''s widely blown To all men''s satisfaction say, Now have you proved it to your own?
16904what is the matter?"
353How shall I bear my light across?
353Not John McCrae?
353Pharpar and Abana?
353Dear Jack, Did you ever eat blackberries?
353Despairing, he cried,"After all these years Is there naught but hatred and strife and tears?"
353Did you ever have a sore hock?
353Do you wonder that the road got on our nerves?
353High heaven is higher than cathedral nave: Do men paint chancels fairer than the sky?"
353How are Sergt.-Major Jack and Corporal David?
353How did you make it?
353How is the 15th Street Brigade getting on?
353How should they know the vigils that I keep, The tears I shed?
353How would you like it if twenty or thirty soldiers came along and lived in your house and put their horses in the shed or the stable?
353Is n''t it pitiful?
353It is rather funny for a soldier- horse, is it not?
353Recompense I saw two sowers in Life''s field at morn, To whom came one in angel guise and said,"Is it for labour that a man is born?
353Should n''t I know?
353They are, he went on to expound, a recurrence of the ancient question:"How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?"
353What harm can ye wreak more on me or on mine?
353What have you to do with medicine?
353Where would ye have me lie?
38071Can it be the War- Lord blundered when he urged the enterprise?
38071Can you recall the fateful day-- a day of drifting skies, When you started on the famous Calais onset?
38071Great Guide, I ask you still,"Wherefore I?"
38071Have we not read Thy ways aright?
38071How could your cheeks be wet?
38071How is it now with England?
38071How long, O Lord?"
38071How was it then with England?
38071How was it then with England?
38071How was it then with England?
38071I could speak for a week, But how could you understand?
38071Or was it in November?
38071Such feelin''s do n''t come to you; But how can me or my mates forget How the Guards came through?
38071VICTRIX How was it then with England?
38071Was it in October last?
38071What do the soldiers say?
38071What does the enemy say?
38071What does the officer say?
38071What does the public say?
38071Where are our laddies who died out there, From Poelcapelle to Festubert, When the days grew short and the poplars bare In the cold November blast?
38071shall I ever forget?
59800''Afraid to fight; was murder more disgrace?
59800''Christ, ai n''t it lively, Sergeant?
59800''_ Who''s that?
59800( Poor blundering files, Sweating and blindly burdened; who''s to know If death will catch them in those two dark miles?)
59800******* And you?
59800Above the years You soar... Is death so bad?
59800And you, my friend, will query--''Why ca n''t you cut it short, you pompous blighter?''
59800Do you ever stop and ask,''Is it all going to happen again?''
59800How did you do them in?
59800I could sing But for a moment,--but for beauty''s sake._''Who passes?
59800II In a strange house I woke; heard overhead Hastily- thudding feet and a muffled scream...( Is death like that?)
59800Is''t a battle?_''More rain: the lightning blinks, and thunder rumbles.
59800Once I came home on leave: and then went west... What greater glory could a man desire?
59800Some Lydian coin?
59800THE DUG- OUT Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen, cold, Exhausted face?
59800Well, what''s the news to- night about the Strike?
59800What''s all this mob at the cross- roads?
59800Where are the guides?...
59800Who speaks?
59800You saw me Fix that saloon?
59800_ But the past is just the same-- and War''s a bloody game... Have you forgotten yet?
59800_ Have you forgotten yet?
8433Who''ll buy? 8433 ***** Is life like that? 8433 And you? 8433 Are the dogs expecting us At the gate? 8433 Are the dragons awake? 8433 Are the dragons sleepers? 8433 At any rate I missed you, and you went, The last day''s absolutely final bird, Scathless, and left me very ill content; And someone( was it I?) 8433 But where was the dragon, the scale- clad dragon, the dragon that Dickon saw, The genuine dragon, The pitiless dragon, The dragon that knew no law? 8433 But who are these In the shade of the trees That creep so slow In a stealthy row? 8433 Ca n''t you see him? 8433 I''m old and broken, I''m lame and tired, But I''ve come to the friends my soul desired.__ So it''s watches and lockets, and who will buy?
8433Or did my silly loader put me off With aimless chatter in regard to golf?
8433Take a look at his eyes; I put it to you, Were ever two eyes more truly blue?
8433Two, who usually prize us, Will they jump and make a fuss?
8433Whence had he come there?
8433Who hunts the dragon?"
8433Who''ll buy?"
8433Will they meet and scatter these crafty creepers?
8433Will they really recognise us Where they wait?
8433Would you not treat them gently if you knew Pansies are little bits of children too?
8930Hello, you know Siegfried Sassoon then, do you? 8930 Impressions?
8930Magic? 8930 What''opes?"
8930What? 8930 When are you going out to them again?
8930Why are you here with all your watches ended? 8930 _ Who put that silly gag in some one''s head?
8930Are they not still your brothers through our blood?"
8930But here what can he do?
8930Can he then see nothing else in war?
8930DOES IT MATTER?
8930Did not the fact of war arch him in like a dirty blood- red sky?
8930Do they matter?--those dreams from the pit?
8930Does it matter?--losing your leg?
8930Does it matter?--losing your sight?
8930Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?
8930How many lives had he not seen spilled apparently to no purpose?
8930Now light your pipe; look, what a steady hand, Draw a deep breath; stop thinking, count fifteen, And you''re as right as rain... Why wo n''t it rain?
8930Some one killed?"
8930Stretcher- bearers wanted?
8930TO ANY DEAD OFFICER Well, how are things in Heaven?
8930Tell me, have you found everlasting day, Or been sucked in by everlasting night?
8930Very rarely does he attain to the poignant simplicity of''The Hawthorn Tree''or the detached irony of''Does it Matter?''
8930What means this metal in windy belfries hung When guns are all our need?
8930What''s magic got to do with you?
8930Which will you read?
8930Who''ll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?
8930when_ will_ it stop?
52561And the one with the ribbon who''s home on leave?
52561But who are the ones they can help or harm?
52561He can not see out of either,"Who are the ones that we can not see, Though we feel them as near as near? 52561 My Sergeant''s plan, Sir"--"And that''s not bad-- But you''ve lost that ribbon you wear?"
52561What''s wrong with that mir- ror?''
52561Who is the one with the heavy stick, Who seems to walk from the shoulder?
52561_ That_ the big thing we''re doin''?
52561AND Ermyntrude, did she lose her all Or find it, two years ago?
52561Cricket?
52561Did she?
52561Did we play footer in funny long flannels?
52561HE picks her up in a tender storm-- But how does it come to pass That he can not see his reflected form With hers in the studio glass?
52561Had we no Corps to give zest to our drill?
52561Half of your best buildings were quarry- stone still?
52561IS it a part of the dream of dread?
52561Like a noisy clock, or a steamer''s screw, Their beat debauched the ear, And left it dead to a deafening few That burst who cared how near?
52561Never a Gym lined throughout with pine panels?
52561Said he to an American( with other words of his):"It''s a big thing you are doing-- do you know how big it is?"
52561THE OLD BOYS( 1917)"Who is the one with the empty sleeve?"
52561There was n''t his match when he went away; But since he got back, there has not been a day But what he has earned a V. C A CYNICAL story?
52561WHAT, indeed, does the Ensign say?
52561What are the men about?
52561What do his heart- strings drone all day?
52561What do they throb all night?
52561What does he sit and write?
52561What were his chances of coming through?
52561Which of his friends remain?
52561While others carry on, The little wooden crosses spell but the dead and gone?
52561Who gave him that name?
52561Who is the one that''s so full of fun-- I never beheld a blither-- Yet his eyes are fixt as the furrow betwixt?"
52561Who says their war is over?
52561Would_ they_ choose to have lived and lost?
1034--O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth''s sleep at all?
1034And who''s that talking, somewhere out of sight?
1034Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing- bells for these who die as cattle?
1034Are limbs so dear- achieved, are sides Full- nerved,--still warm,--too hard to stir?
1034D''you think the Boche will ever stew man- soup?
1034He''ll change the sheets When I''m lugged out, oh, could n''t I do that?
1034Is it that we are dying?
1034Is one too good to spare, too long?
1034Is one too hard to spare?
1034Malingering?
1034Mental Cases Who are these?
1034Must I be his load?
1034Must I be his load?
1034Not sniped?
1034Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
1034Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?
1034Shall they return to beatings of great bells In wild trainloads?
1034Stroke on stroke of pain,--but what slow panic, Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets?
1034Surely we have perished Sleeping, and walk hell; but who these hellish?
1034Tell me how long I''ve got?
1034Too long?
1034V We wise, who with a thought besmirch Blood over all our soul, How should we see our task But through his blunt and lashless eyes?
1034Was it for this the clay grew tall?
1034What are we doing here?
1034What candles may be held to speed them all?
1034What''s inside that jug?
1034Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, Baring teeth that leer like skulls''tongues wicked?
1034Why are they laughing?
1034Why do n''t they come And put him into bed?
1034Why do n''t they come?
1034Why sit they here in twilight?
1034Your fifty years ahead seem none too many?
34269And please now, Mr. Warnock, Just tell us if you will What you''d do with this problem If you were Sergeant Hill?
34269Mr. Whitney, wo n''t you tell us Of patrols both front and rear? 34269 THE SIMULATING OF THE GREEN"(_ Air:"Wearing of the Green"_) Oh, Major dear, and did you hear the news that''s going round?
34269Will someone please perform right face? 34269 24 C. L. Yates, Co. 1, 1st P. T. R. A TEST OF DISCIPLINE27 C. L. Yates, Co. 1, 1st P. T. R. WHAT''S YOUR NAME?"
34269And when it said:"What do you do?"
34269Are ye men?
34269As for the Third, he spoke no word But hastened on his way, Until at last a whisper passed:"How did_ you_ die today?"
34269But is it_ my_ fault?
34269But what else could I do?
34269Camaraderie beside the lake... fellow for fellow, What does it matter?
34269D''you suppose he gives a tinker''s damn If when you''re lying prone, The pack comes up behind your ears And whacks you on the dome?
34269Did your stomach turn over and stand up on end, When you dropped the damn thing on your toes?
34269Do n''t you feel, enchanting sprite, My pep?
34269FORWARD"?"
34269INOCULATION DAY My blood the surgeons fortify With antiseptic serum; The dread bacilli I defy, What cause have I to fear''em?
34269Lady, in your stockings white, Do n''t you note my altered step?
34269Lemonade and other things, Taken on march, Have been known to cause Soldiers to die, and pie?
34269My throat and mouth are full of paste There''s nothing in my hat; My belt is winding round my waist But where''s my stomach at?
34269O. R. C., Co. 4, 1st P. T. R. THE CALL 73 Allen Bean MacMurphy, Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. BEANS 74 Charles H. Ramsey, Co. 8, 1st P. T. R. FORWARD"?"
34269Often, when''neath their eyes we pass, I hear some maiden sigh divinely, And murmur to another lass,"Dear, is n''t_ Jackie_ marching finely?"
34269So they sent us up to Plattsburg, do n''t you see?
34269THE MANUAL Did you ever run into the butt of your gun, Or dig the front sight with your nose?
34269Tell me, where did I make that break?
34269Then I think of the millions Who have none for whom to be lonely, French, English, German, Russ.... What does it matter the language?
34269Think, and you know not what he meant to say-- He knows not neither, so-- ah, what''s the use?
34269Though upon my manly back There reposes half a ton, Why repine against a pack Or gun?
34269When coming to Port did the rifle fall short, And the swivel ram into your fist?
34269When the rest did present did you so intent Find a count that the others had missed?
34269[ Illustration: MESS?
34269[ Illustration: WHAT''S YOUR NAME?]
617And the barbed wire, was n''t it cut down by the bombardment?
617And where have you been all the time, and what have you been doing?
617Why did you enlist?
617Alas, what temper is conceived so ill But, Pity moving not, Love''s soft enthralment will?
617And am-I- then Upon a bed of roses?"
617And now?
617And would his lot have been the less enviable?
617Can Art acclaim No hero now, no man with whom men side As with their hearts''high needs personified?
617Did not the benefits and blessings they had received point them a duty that heart and conscience could not deny?
617Did you find the season too cold and damp To change the counter for the camp?
617Do you suppose the herdsman sometimes hears Vague echoes borne beneath the moon''s pale ray From those old, old, far- off, forgotten years?
617England, which side is thine?
617Has Nature marred his mould?
617How could they endure it?
617IV What is Success?
617Is n''t it pretty?
617So far back indeed as May, 1912, he had written to his mother from Paris:"Is it not fine the way the Balkan States are triumphing?
617Sonnet XVI Who shall invoke her, who shall be her priest, With single rites the common debt to pay?
617Were you frightened by fevers in Mexico?
617What is so fair as lovers in their joy That dies in sleep, their sleep that wakes in joy?
617What is that exquisite stanza in''Maud''about''in the evening through the lilacs( or laurels) of the old manorial home''?
617What is the stimulus in their slogans of"Gott mit uns"and"Fuer Koenig und Vaterland"beside that of men really fighting in defense of their country?
617Where have ye hidden it-- the chested gold?
617Who knows?
617Why did he take this step?
617Will you turn your back on him once again?
617for me?
10122Once the Galatians built a fane To Sense: what duller God than that?
10122Tell us, now, how and when We may find the bravest men?
10122AN OLD TWENTY- THIRD MAN"Is that the Three- and- Twentieth, Strabo mine, Marching below, and we still gulping wine?"
10122And since we lads are proud and true, What else remains to do?
10122Gardener, cursing at the weed, Ere you curse it further, say: Who but you planted the seed In my fertile heart, one day?
10122He stooped, he touched the beggar man''s shoulder; He asked him did the frost nip colder?
10122I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED?
10122Is that the Legion, Gracchus?
10122JOHN SKELTON What could be dafter Than John Skelton''s laughter?
10122Jonah is vexed; He cries,"What next?
10122Loud wept the desolate God, Scorn on scorn heaping,"Faun, what is he, Faun, what is he?"
10122Nurse says the Moon can drive you mad?
10122Pity?
10122SORLEY''S WEATHER When outside the icy rain Comes leaping helter- skelter, Shall I tie my restive brain Snugly under shelter?
10122STRONG BEER"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?"
10122Shall I drink with Shelley?
10122Shall I glutton here with Keats?
10122Shall I make a gentle song Here in my firelit study, When outside the winds blow strong And the lanes are muddy?
10122So where to rank old Skelton?
10122Some say worms win resurrection, With white wings beating flitter- flutter, But wings or a sound sleep, why should I care?
10122TWO FUSILIERS And have we done with War at last?
10122Though she be angry, though she would Destroy all England if she could, Yet think, what damage can she do Hanging there so far from you?
10122Well?
10122What sound more tenderly Than his pretty poetry?
10122Where are they now?
10122Who''s that Saint by the lake?
10122Why do you churn smooth waters rough again, Selfish old skin- and- bone?
10122Why in this cold and rime, Where even to dream is pain?
10122Why should I keep him time?
10122With old wine and drowsy meats Am I to fill my belly?
10122_ A fresh wind fills the evening air With horrid crying of night birds...._ But what reads new or curious there When cold winds fly across the air?
10122and''Prestopuff''?
10122what next?"
13886What masquerade is this?
13886Where is the Army goin''to?
13886Where is the Trooper goin''to?
13886Where is the''Doughboy''goin''to?
13886Where is the''Gunner''goin''to?
13886Why do n''t you do it? 13886 8:45 A. M.--GUARD MOUNT Guard Mount, my name was n''t booked; How is it I was overlooked? 13886 And afar When the day Goeth day, Must thou go Cometh night; And the night And a star Day is done Leadeth all, Leave me so? 13886 But why should you be predestined By the scent of an innocent oil? 13886 DANNY DEEVER BALLADWhere''re all the soldiers goin''to?"
13886Death, will it lose, or Life, will it win, Who''ll be the"winner"at the great"Cash- in"?
13886Do they heed us a- dying in garrison life?
13886For it''s pay- day, pay- day, pay- day; Ca n''t you hear the bugles call?
13886I try to do all they require me, but, God, who can do all that?
13886IS HE A SOREHEAD?
13886If tears?
13886Millions of mothers so anxious at home, Who will wear crepe for loved ones, alone?
13886Millions of sweethearts who''ll weep o''er the"lists,"Which lovers the lips ne''er more to be kissed?
13886Our fathers used to think that way, But we are wiser(?)
13886QUEEN OF MAY If you wake, why, call me early-- call me early, wo n''t you, bunk?
13886So what''s the odds to you and me?
13886THE SLACKER Why do n''t he volunteer to serve In Uncle Sammy''s grand reserve?
13886Ten million shrapnel shrieking o''er head, Which Conscript to reckon among their dead?
13886The Chief of Staff sits up above and wonders"wot fell?"
13886Thousands of wounds, a- gaping and wide, Who will recover, and who will have died?
13886We''ll get what''s coming, do n''t you see?
13886What were the"odds"that Fate would select Me for a Conscript-- another reject?
13886While these things sting, What''s that to us?
13886With a leggin- string you''re fussin''When the band begins to play, And you listen, and stop cussin'',-- What is that the bugles say?
13886Ye''ve eyes like a bat, can ye see in the dark?
13886You may, For aught you know, or others say, Be entertaining, unawares, An angel; and, if not, who cares?
13886asked Files- on- Parade,"And what is he a- goin''to do?"
13886asked Files- on- Parade,"And what is he a- goin''to do?"
13886asked Files- on- Parade,"And what is he a- goin''to do?"
13886asked Files- on- Parade,"What are they all a- goin''to do?"
13886said Files- on- Parade,"And what is it a''goin''to do?"
14757Impressions? 14757 What''opes?"
14757What? 14757 When are you going out to them again?
14757Why are you here with all your watches ended? 14757 _ How peaceful are the dead._"Who put that silly gag in some one''s head?
14757_ What''s all this mob, by the cross- road?_( The guides)...."_ Lead on with Number One_"( And off they go.)
14757_ Who''s that? 14757 ***** And you? 14757 And, while he blunders,Could anything be worse than this?"
14757Are n''t they glorious men?...
14757Are they not still your brothers through our blood?"
14757Christ, ai n''t it lively, Sergeant?
14757DOES IT MATTER?
14757Do they matter?--those dreams from the pit?...
14757Do you ever stop and ask,"Is it all going to happen again?"
14757Does it matter?--losing your legs?...
14757Does it matter?--losing your sight?...
14757Draw a deep breath; stop thinking; count fifteen, And you''re as right as rain.... Why wo n''t it rain?...
14757Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?...
14757He''s young; he hated war; how should he die When cruel old campaigners win safe through?
14757How did you do them in?
14757Is''t a battle?_"More rain: the lightning blinks, and thunder rumbles.
14757Of things like these I love to think When I can never be alone: Then some one says,"Another drink?"
14757Some one killed?"
14757Stretcher- bearers wanted?
14757TO ANY DEAD OFFICER Well, how are things in Heaven?
14757Tell me, have you found everlasting day, Or been sucked in by everlasting night?
14757Then a Girl- Guide looked in to say,"Will Captain Croesus come this way?"
14757What greater glory could a man desire?
14757What means this metal in windy belfries hung When guns are all our need?
14757Which will you read?
14757_ But the past is just the same,--and War''s a bloody game,... Have you forgotten yet?...
14757_ Have you forgotten yet?...
14757when_ will_ it stop?
45199Impressions? 45199 What''opes?"
45199What? 45199 When are you going out to them again?
45199Why are you here with all your watches ended? 45199 _ Fritz is there!__ Christ, ai n''t it lively, Sergeant?
45199_ What''s all this mob, by the cross- road?_( The guides)..."_ Lead on with Number One_."
45199_ Who''s that? 45199 ***** And you? 45199 ... Poor blundering files, Sweating and blindly burdened; who''s to know If death will catch them in those two dark miles? 45199 And tell Him that our Politicians swear They wo n''t give in till Prussian Rule''s been trod Under the Heel of England.... Are you there?... 45199 And, while he blunders,Could anything be worse than this?"
45199Are n''t they glorious men?...
45199Are they not still your brothers through our blood?"
45199DOES IT MATTER?
45199Do they matter?--those dreams from the pit?...
45199Do you ever stop and ask,"Is it all going to happen again?"
45199Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz,-- The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
45199Does it matter?--losing your legs?...
45199Does it matter?--losing your sight?...
45199Draw a deep breath; stop thinking; count fifteen, And you''re as right as rain.... Why wo n''t it rain?...
45199Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?...
45199He''s young; he hated war; how should he die When cruel old campaigners win safe through?
45199How did you do them in?
45199Is''t a battle?_"More rain: the lightning blinks, and thunder rumbles.
45199Of things like these I love to think When I can never be alone: Then some one says,"Another drink?"
45199Some one killed?"
45199Stretcher- bearers wanted?
45199TO ANY DEAD OFFICER Well, how are things in Heaven?
45199Tell me, have you found everlasting day, Or been sucked in by everlasting night?
45199Then a Girl- Guide looked in to say,"Will Captain Croesus come this way?"
45199What greater glory could a man desire?
45199What means this metal in windy belfries hung When guns are all our need?
45199Which will you read?
45199Who put that silly gag in some one''s head?
45199_ Have you forgotten yet?_..._ Look up, and swear by the green of the Spring that you''ll never forget_.
45199when_ will_ it stop?
60371Master thou whose cause I cherish, Master thou who reign''st in hell, Am I worthy of thy kinship? 60371 ''Tis a sad lass I am with loving you only, Will you never come back to your Irish colleen? 60371 And is it glad or is it sad, that missive''s written page, Postmarked from France where men advance and frightful battles rage? 60371 And why are all the people stirred and what is it they say? 60371 Brave little buffeted ship, Battered and blown in life''s gale, Where is your port in the storm? 60371 CUPID''S ARROW Say, have you met her? 60371 Canst thou remember Byron and refrain? 60371 Cried aloud in gleeful frenzy,Who would wish to be divine, When as fiend he reigns the master of unnumbered slaves of wine?"
60371Did she but smile to betray?
60371Dost thou oft weep with troubled heart and brain, Between each letter''s ever- length''ning wait?
60371Hast Thou no rod this crowned Ghoul to flay?
60371Hast thou forgotten one of Saxon strain?
60371Have we not seen His fiery messengers, Hard riding on some planet- rounding course Across the ranges of infinity?
60371Have you seen it kiss the foreheads of the mourners as they weep?
60371Have you seen the falling raindrops, like a blessing glad and sweet, On the rock and on the meadow, on the thistle and the wheat?
60371Have you seen the sunlight gleaming on a summer day in June, Spreading broadcast texts of glory, while the birds hozannas tune?
60371Have you watched it bathe the outcast as he lays forlorn asleep?
60371Hear me, O Father; Jesus, hear me pray, Shall there be reckoning, shall Prussia pay?
60371How shall we dream of better things amid these saddened days?
60371How shall we greet Thy Son?
60371In thy cause have I done well?
60371It''s twenty years since the''Ouse of Peers''as seen''i m, and is it right That the people''s will''is kind can kill, and do it all in a night?
60371Lad of my Heart-- do you hear my love calling?
60371Lad of my love-- do you see my tears falling?
60371O soul of mine, yearn not, hope on, nor fear; What though the frail- ribbed skiff wherein thou float''st Sink in the depths unfathomed?
60371O thou April maiden, weaving Spells alluring and deceiving, Wilt thou some day me be leaving?
60371Oh, postman on your daily round, what message do you bring From them who fight in foreign lands for country and for king?
60371One passed you last night at dusk, One whom the world brands with shame; Say, was it then all her fault?
60371Saw he the vast armies of the west engage In strife stupendous, in those days agone, When by the Nile he conquered at Khartoum?
60371Saw he unmoved the vision of his doom?
60371Shall Belgium''s sons, shall this beloved soil, Whose very mould is martial, be made spoil?
60371Sometimes in dreams do you see Visions of dainties high piled?
60371To what refuge do you sail?
60371What of the future and mankind while Christian, Christian slays?
60371What portents shaped the wild sirocco''s rage Where Memnon tunes across the plain at dawn?
60371Where chooseth Greece, while moves the dark intrigue, Where Progress beckons or where despots league?
60371Where do you live--''neath the street, Or attic above the stair?
60371Wherefore the ravage of my little ones?
60371Who dare cry peace where all is strife; Who bid the conflict cease?
60371Who dares to kneel beside the crib which thrones the Prince of Peace?
60371Who shall for these atone?
60371Who thrilled the world?
60371Why hopest thou then by one life''s little span To grasp the mystery of a million suns?
60371Why should I weep in springtime with the long, white winter past?
60371it is the Christmas time, the feast of Him divine; How shall we stand with stained hands, and worship at His shrine?
41944An''did you cross in a comfy way, Or did you have to run? 41944 Do you cross the sea to- night with me?"
41944Doth he repent that we alone Are here to hold the way, That he must reap what he hath sown-- That only valour may atone The fault of yesterday? 41944 What is that, sir?
41944You''re the man to save us now, We look to you to win; Wot''d yer like? 41944 A rise o''pay? 41944 An''is the patch on your hull we see the mark of a bump in''Ninety- three, Or the work of a German gun?
41944And it seems so unavailing They should write and tell us so-- If the Hun is shortly sailing, Could n''t_ some one_ let him know?
41944And they take their affidavy That a fight is due at sea:_ Dammit-- tell the German Navy_, What''s the use of telling me?
41944And those who went away from us and passed from war to peace-- Are they looking still for Fairyland the wide world round?
41944Are the prices high and taxes stiff, is the prospect sad and dark?
41944Did you kill him?
41944Do you feel your troubles around you rise in an endless dreary wall?
41944Has the Nelson spirit in the Fleet begun to cool?"
41944Have you seen your capital dwindle down as low as the German mark?
41944Is it nothing to you that pass us by-- hurrying on your way, Whispering low of peace and rest to the tune of a German song?
41944Is it only in the sunset we may find the Golden Fleece?
41944Is it only to the Westward that the Fairyland is found?
41944My Lords in solemn conclave drew Behind a bolted door, Threshing it out in full debate--"Is it a case for an Acting Rate?
41944Or use of Martial Law?"
41944Peace and Rest?
41944Roaring water or sheets of flame?
41944The Admiral landed Cabré- wise And high the fountains burst--( What is the meaning of Cabré- wise?
41944The end with none to view?
41944The rest you seek?
41944Too proud to fight?
41944WHO CARES?
41944WHO CARES?
41944Was it sudden or slow-- the death that came?
41944We are fighting for the Right and the Honour of the Race With the Bulldog Grip they know; Who''s the silly novice there putting on the pace?
41944What about another rise?
41944What is it to us if the world is mad?
41944What need of that?
41944What''s the good of hurrying?
41944Who''s the brute that hurt you so?
41944Whom do you call your Overlord that dares me in my home?"
41944With a minor matter for the end--"What shall the Council do About this fellow Mackensen?
41944_ Not_ a bit of private trade?
41944_ Not_ as cargo?
41944but how I hate him-- a liar and a fool,--"Where is the British Navy-- is it staying in the harbours?
41944down below there-- d''you know it''s going to blow there, All across the cold North Sea?"
41944for you?
41944you fight for a Christian land, And all Eternity waits for you-- what need of rest till then?
16632Is n''t supper so important that you''ll quit your round of play? 16632 What does his father think and say?"
16632A Father''s Prayer I sometimes wonder when I read the sorrow in his face If I shall wear that look of care when time has marched apace?
16632And I wondered all that evening, as he slumbered in his bed If we''d risen to the meaning of the work that lies ahead?
16632And this is the thing we shall ask of him: to give us the reason why Our boys must fall on his battlefields, but never his boys must die?"
16632And who will do the heavy work the little garden needs?
16632And who will tell the lad of mine the things he wants to know, And take his hand and lead him round the paths we used to go?
16632Are his eyes no longer clear?
16632Are our comforts and our riches in our minds still uppermost?
16632Are we roused to the importance of the danger in our way?
16632Are we thinking still of pleasures as we thought but yesterday?
16632Boring a mountain or bridging a stream, Steel work and real work?
16632Do n''t you want to eat the shortcake mother made for you to- day?"
16632Has he lost his old- time cheer?
16632Has your love so careless grown By the long neglect you''ve shown That you never raise your eye To the symbol that you fly?"
16632Have you kept him, gentle mother?
16632Have you noticed that your flag, Is to- day a wind- blown rag?
16632I said,"A hoard of gold and a few dear friends?
16632If all our finest deeds are done, And all our splendor''s in the past; If there''s no battle to be won, What matter if to- day''s our last?
16632Is he growing weak and flabby who but yesterday was strong?
16632Is he silent, sad and sullen?
16632Is life so sweet that we would live Though nothing back to life we give?
16632Mechanic, banker, lawyer, too, Have you not heard the stirring drum?
16632Must we wait, to see our danger, till the foe is on our coast?
16632Oh, child of a year, do you wonder what here upon earth you shall find?
16632Oh, who will tend the roses now and who will sow the seeds?
16632The Glory of Age"What is the glory of age?"
16632The New Year Come you with dangers to fright us?
16632Time was, his boy was five years old; time was he smiled as I; I wonder what awaits for me when youth has journeyed by?
16632To a Lady Knitting Little woman, hourly sitting, Something for a soldier knitting, What in fancy can you see?
16632What greater news can mothers tell?
16632What is it through the battle smoke the valiant soldier sees?
16632What is it, fighting or building you''re needing?
16632What though you can not bear a gun?
16632When shall we sing as we used to do and dance in the old- time way?
16632When the Drums Shall Cease to Beat When will the laughter ring again in the way that it used to do?
16632When the world is dressed to cheer you Do n''t you feel Him standin''near you?
16632When will happy hearts meet again in the lights of the Christmas tree?
16632When will the holly gleam again and the Christmas candles burn?
16632Why then keep sorrow and doubt in your eyes?
16632Will you not give to her your finest toil?
16632or hazards to try out our souls?
16632shall our flag in dishonor be furled?
53621Cuculain, is it so?
53621What message now hath Hera?
53621("Fairer than Usna''s youngest son, O, my poor one, what flower- bed holds you?
53621AN OLD PAIN What old, old pain is this that bleeds anew?
53621Ah, I know He will not come, yet if I go How shall I know he did not pass Barefooted in the flowery grass?
53621And Caoilte, the thin man, raised up his head And took her kiss upon his throbbing brow, And where they went away what man has heard?
53621And boots the world Aught for their wisdom?
53621And friend, could I remain unstirred Without a word for such a sorrow?
53621And shall the world now end and the heavens fall?
53621And so our loves are lost, she sighed, And far and wide we seek new treasure, For who on Time or Timeless hills Can live the ills of loveless leisure?
53621And together walk Thro''hills with dimples full of water where White angels rest, and all the dead years talk About the changes of the earth?
53621And when I saw her large blue eyes, What was the pain that went thro''me?
53621But for Beauty unmolested Have you still the sighing olden?
53621But where are all the loves of long ago?
53621But who dare cast One brief hour''s horoscope, whose tunéd ear Makes every sound the music of last year?
53621Friend, have you heard a bird lament When sleet is sent for April weather?
53621From whither brings she back an old delight?
53621Grey days come soon And I am alone; Can you hear my moan Where you rest, Aroon?
53621Have we not met, Lady fair?
53621Have you sighed in wings untravelled For the heights where others view the Bluer widths of heaven, and marvelled At the utmost top of Beauty?
53621How is the morn so gay and fair Without his whistling in its air?
53621How shall I know he did not pass Barefooted in the shining grass?
53621INAMORATA The bees were holding levees in the flowers, Do you remember how each puff of wind Made every wing a hum?
53621LADY FAIR Lady fair, have we not met In our lives elsewhere?
53621Long of memory is Regret, But what Regret has taken flight Through my memory''s silences?
53621MUSIC ON WATER Where does Remembrance weep when we forget?
53621Maeve answered his inquiring look and turned Once more unto her prayer, and yet once more"How do you see them now?"
53621Oh, little twilight ship blown up the tide, Where are the faces laughing in the glow Of morning years, the lost ones scattered wide?
53621Or will you never come, or have you died, And I in anguish have forgotten all?
53621Or, wrecked upon the shores of home, What wave of foam with white enfolds you?
53621Say, can the lark forget the cloud When poppies shroud the seeded furrow?
53621Shall I meet Keats in some wild isle of balm, Dreaming beside a tarn where green and wide Boughs of sweet cinnamon protect the calm Of the dark water?
53621THE COMING POET"Is it far to the town?"
53621THE SORROW OF FINDEBAR"Why do you sorrow, child?
53621Then Artemis spun round to me and said,"Whence come you?"
53621To- morrow will be loud with war, How will I be accounted for?
53621What are we but fairies too, Living but in dreams alone, Or, at the most, but children still, Innocent and overgrown?
53621What do we want with Beauty?
53621What matters hours or æons when''tis gone?
53621What old and wandering dream forgotten long Hobbles back to my mind?
53621What soft moons pull Their moving fragrance?
53621Whose hopes are built up in the door of Past?
53621Why did I think on Southern skies And ships upon the sea?
53621Why do we weep that once we laughed?
53621Will not the thunder hide me if I call, Wrapt in the corner of some distant star The gods have never known?
53621With voice that mourned,"How do you see them now?"
53621You, in the singing dusk, how could you wend The songless way Contentment fleetly wings?
53621and yet Why are we sad that once our hearts were light?
53621little yearning thing, you and I?
53621what shall we do for a heart to prove, Who have known Beauty, and Spring, and Love?
53621what shall we do for a song to sing, Who have known Beauty, and Love, and Spring?
592Friend Chang,I said,"San Francisco sleeps as the dead-- Ended license, lust and play: Why do you iron the night away?
592Pocahontas''body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May-- did she wonder? 592 What will you do to end war for good?
592''The Craftsman'':"Has America a National Poetry?"
592And do his bauble- bells beyond the clouds Ring out, and shake with mirth the planets bright?
592And do you laugh, when Jim, from Huck apart Gropes through the rain and night with breaking heart?
592And who is here to say us nay?
592And why, until the dawning sun Are flames coming up from the ground?
592But do you laugh when Jim bows down forlorn His babe, his deaf Elizabeth to mourn?
592But who can dodge this genius of the stream, The Mississippi Valley''s laughing dream?
592Can it go on in the absence of its initiators?
592Deep in the ages, long, long ago, I was your sweetheart, there on the sand-- Storm- worn beach of the Chinese land?
592Do you remember, ages after, At last the world we were born to own?
592I had a silvery name, I had a silvery name, I had a silvery name-- do you remember The name you cried beside the tumbling sea?"
592II What marching men of Buffalo Flood the streets in rash crusade?
592In the breezes nod and wheeze?
592Is it his deacon- beard, or old bald pate That makes the band upon his whims to wait?
592O market square, O slattern place, Is glory in your slack disgrace?
592One crow asked the other crow a riddle: The muttering crow Asked the stuttering crow,"Why does a bee have a sword to his fiddle?
592Second Section America Watching the War, August, 1914, to April, 1917 Where Is the Real Non- resistant?
592Shall we be as weird as these?
592WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE?
592WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE?
592WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE?
592WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE?
592WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE?
592WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE?
592WILL YOU BRING YOUR FINE PEACE TO THE NATIONS TODAY?"
592Was it a palace or a barn?
592What landlord, lawyer, voodoo- man has yet A better native right to make men sweat?
592Where are those oddities and capers now That used to"set the table on a roar"?
592Which of our freemen did she greet the first, Seeing him come against the fires accurst?
592While the monster shadows glower and creep, What can be better for man than sleep?"
592Who can surrender till death His words and his works, his house and his lands, His eyes and his heart and his breath?
592Who can surrender to Christ?
592Who can surrender to Christ?
592Who shall end my dream''s confusion?
592Why did they mumble, brood, and stare When the court- players curtsied fair And the Gonzago scene began?
592Why does a bee have a sword to his fiddle?"
592Why?
592Will you die for the nations, making them whole?
592Will you stand by the book- case, be nailed to the wood?"
592You were the heir of the yellow throne-- The world was the field of the Chinese man And we were the pride of the Sons of Han?
592does she remember-- in the dust-- in the cool tombs?"
19358Have you a job to- day, sir, to give a working man? 19358 ''Tis His the broken heart to bind, To heal the serpent''s bite, The judge is He of all mankind, And shall He not do right? 19358 A hero''s heart, an honored name, Or coward''s part, and shirker''s shame? 19358 All mine troubles I hardly ca n''t bear, How is tings in de Faderland now? 19358 An open purse, our strength in full, Or painted horse and party pull? 19358 Are the men all fools? 19358 Britty soon vill dey lay down de gun, So I home mit Katrina can shtay? 19358 CHOOSE YE In times like these, each heart decrees A law unto itself; What shall it be for you and me, Self sacrifice or pelf? 19358 Den I say--Dat''s von very hard case; Can tree jacks beat four kings und some ace?
19358Do you tink dat der Kaiser vill care?
19358Dot is vy I so seldom do n''t wrote''Bout some tings dat vill happen to me Since dose shells, vot you call?
19358HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?
19358Has the world gone crazy?
19358He answered:"Can you plow, sir, or build a load of hay?
19358How much in Freedom''s name?
19358I got kept in at school one day For lessons not half learned, And when dad asked,"Why this delay?"
19358If he gifs you von cheap iron cross, Ven I lose mine own Fritz I ca n''t shpare, Vot vill dat do to make oop mine loss?
19358Is our thinking hazy, Spite of all our schools?
19358Little Tommy Tucker sang for his supper, What did he sing for?
19358Neither king nor kaiser Down in Mexico, Are the people wiser?
19358Our all is in the game: What shall we give that Truth may live?
19358SAMMY April, 1918 Brave Sammy''s a fighter, who said he was slow, That Duffeldorf blighter was running his show?
19358Shall farmers hold their wheat, While children suffer hunger, And workmen walk the street?
19358Shall never feel the Prussian heel, Nor German kultur show?
19358Shall we hoard up our dollars?
19358Shall we our noble heritage, See crumbling down like clay, This goodly age, a blotted page, And neither fight nor pay?
19358Shall we, with path made easy, While others fight and fall, In freedom''s hour of danger Neglect the Empire''s call?
19358Soul unafraid, the prayer of faith, Or heart dismayed at thought of death?
19358Ten thousand prayers in discord rise From church and cloister dim, When will we cease our feeble cries, And trust the world to Him?
19358The awful strife, wounds and disease, Or sordid life of selfish ease?
19358The noble deed, the unmarked grave, Or craven greed our lives to save?
19358The trenches''mud, and trusted word, Or tainted blood, and rusted sword?
19358Tino never whistles, Neither does he sing, Bed of thorns and thistles; Who would be a king?
19358Vat you tink of dis plan, mine dear Fritz, In mine head dat already I get, Dat I take back again Von Tirpitz, Und Herr Teufel in partnership yet?
19358Ven you tinks dis beeg var vill get done?
19358Vot matter for de tings ve done?
19358Vot pisness he mit horse and gun, Dot channel shtream to cross?
19358Vot you tink, Fritz?
19358Where duty leads, what matter creeds, Or what baptismal font, Jean?
19358Where shall we stand that this fair land No Kaiser''s strafe shall know?
19358Which shall we choose, to win or lose?
19358Will the nations get records of glory, Of cowardice, courage or crime, When the sages record the true story, To ring down the decades of time?
19358You never say a word, dad, about this awful fight; Where is your trusty sword, dad?
19358vot is dat I say?
56037Are they masters of your knowing?
56037First floor? 56037 Is n''t there just one wee little baby to come to my face and kiss and buy?"
56037So you would cease to be a man, And be a green tree, if you can, A pine, a beech, an oak?
56037This is why your fingers straining Clutch the thing they shall not hold?
56037Where are the men that marched into the dusk?
56037Who art thou that would be a tree, Least of the weeds that shoot and pass? 56037 --Who would look at a bogey- woman whispering over an empty tray? 56037 A SOLDIER DYINGLad, why are your fingers twitching, What is the thing they strain to hold?
56037And did you fly thro''boyland dells To catch the songs of youthful kings, And fly before the flight of Springs?
56037And sow it in what field for goodliest reaping, From night to shield it and from sins to save?
56037And whither does it go then, And whence does it come forth?
56037Are there boys still dream a dream there, Are the boys''songs sung?
56037Art thou faded, swift?
56037Do the wings and clouds still hover Where my heart sang loud?
56037FIRES OF CHANGE Think you that Athens and Jerusalem Rot in the places where they builded them?
56037Fifth?"
56037Gathering birds, gathering birds, How shall you lift your singing head?
56037Gathering birds, gathering birds, How shall you sing?
56037Gods of the great wars, Gas- wave and gun, Are ye not happy With the red work done?
56037HAVING FINISHED"JUDE THE OBSCURE"Such purposeless and iron wings Obscure our mortal music quite?
56037Have I not trodden then the ways which thou wouldst have me tread?
56037Have you no eyes, soldier, Keen eyes like me?
56037Have you no feet, soldier, No feet at all?
56037How when the wind goes round your way, How can your trumpets play?
56037I went up to an oak and said,"What shall I do that I might be A beech, an oak, or any tree, With branches leafing from my head?"
56037If you carefully record your emotions, Lyric or Sonnet that haunts your head, Will you revive for me over in Flanders Love stone dead?
56037Ilissus, Ilissus of the plain?
56037Is n''t it seven years, little mother, since you''ve been dead?
56037Is that the whole of you, White lad from England, Is that the soul of you, Dead in Gallipoli?
56037Is the boy''s will broken That went straight along?
56037Lilac, laburnum, gathering birds...?
56037Lilac, lilac, laburnum, Shall not your blossom be fiery red?
56037Lord, he knew not what he did"?
56037MY MOTHER''S PORTRAIT Dost thou turn thine eyes away from me, thy stern and gentle eyes, From the error of my living days, O thou in Death most wise?
56037Now Spring is nipped and hoar, Too callous flowers, why bloom ye more?
56037O soldier, is it hard to lose The first Spring- whisper on the tree, Sun foaming round the love you choose, Whosoever she?
56037O thou in Death most wise, With thy stern and gentle eyes, Then is thy sleep disturbed by doubt, thy coffin by surprise?
56037Once more they come next day,"Where are the men you stole from us away?"
56037Or shall you be gentler far Than a bird or than a star?
56037Second?
56037Shall the ancient spells that bound us, Bind us ever again?
56037Shall we come again with singing Where the plover sings?
56037Shall you bind my throat with cords, Stab me through with swords?
56037Shall you know that I was bound In the noose that choked you round?
56037Shall your eyes that day be mild, Like the Sacrifice, the Child?
56037Such gloom to monstrous gloom outflings The stenches of a churchyard night?
56037The passioned vows I said, The ways which I should tread, So have I quite forgotten these now thou art safely dead?
56037Then was it but a wind of words, the passioned vows I said?
56037They say,"Where are the men you stole from us away?
56037This is the Temple, this the Parthenon The priests of old days laid their hands upon?
56037WHO KNOWS ME?
56037WOUNDED SOLDIERS Have you no arms, soldier?
56037We are no more for God or Sin Than parasites in rotting hair, No different but only in The boundlessness of our despair?
56037What English flower That we cherish shall grow of him?
56037What have I made Of the dead time?
56037What is Athens now?
56037When all the Spring is all a loaded grave, How can your banners wave?
56037Where are the men you took?
56037Where are they now, the laughing lovers whom You heaped in sombre ranks against the gloom?"
56037Where shall I place my soul for most safe keeping From boisterous intention and omnivorous wave?
56037Who knows me?
56037Who knows me?
56037Who knows me?
56037Why does your blood flow thick, enriching A bleak strange place?"
20072An''s''ply you wid fresh meat? 20072 And_ yours_?"
20072Did you know, Karl,she whispered,"That my brother was on that transport-- My only brother-- a soldier-- my only blood?
20072Eating the garbage? 20072 Grin, ye hyenas,"he''ll say as he smokes;"_ I_ ai n''t a frivolous guy--""Thinkin''of all of the pain you caused folks While learnin''to play?"
20072How many hours will it be Before you''re ready?
20072Well?
20072What of it?
20072What of that?
20072Why have I never seen the rose Just as a_ rose_ before?
20072( Perhaps you have met him?
20072A day that with joy is bubbling-- And dancing adown a world mad- gay?
20072Ai n''t it a sin, Spendin''good hours a- twiddlin''thumbs?
20072And if he does, oh, wo n''t it be A happy day for me?
20072Before they left to go ashore( A crowd had gathered on the quay),"When can you start to work?"
20072Bugler Bill come"out of the Draft"-- D''you s''pose at_ that_ joke he actually laughed?
20072But I wonder if Bill_ would_ lie?
20072Ca n''t you change the stuffing?
20072Den Br''er Fox, he slink away, and bahk like he was sad, An''Br''er Rab, he shake he sides wid laffin''--ain''t he bad?
20072Did we all jump on him?
20072Do you suppose That all these years-- how long, God knows!-- I really have not_ understood_ the rose?"
20072For what the Future holds who knows, or cares?
20072HOW''S THE BOY?
20072He''s nice enough, I s''pose, But what do you think he said to me?
20072His feet are big, his head is small, His German blood is slow, But at the call for volunteers, Why, did n''t Heinie go?
20072How''s the boy?"
20072How''s the boy?"
20072I wonder if you know him?
20072I''ll get a lot of brothers, then, Without_ no_ bother-- see?
20072If Antoinette, dear Antoinette, were simply to suggest That question, do n''t you think that I would quickly do the rest?
20072If it had gone down-- that transport-- been sunk--""Well?"
20072If you was n''t''much of a soldier,''or shirked in your duty-- well, say, What sort of a chance have other men got when tested on Judgment Day?
20072Is it wrong if I cry?
20072It must be right, but somehow I ca n''t look at it that way-- Why should he go, so young and good, and me-- so worn out-- stay?
20072It''s wearin''on the nerves, waitin''round-- for what?
20072NOW-- AND THEN A thousand years from now, how will this earth Conduct itself?
20072Or do you more demand?
20072Or will there be a dearth Of ideas( such as we feel, now and then?)
20072PAID IN ADVANCE What is the cost of a day in Spring-- A wind- swept, rain- washed golden day?
20072Pretending you are blind?
20072Pretty soon he hear a noise-- dat''s Br''er Fox, he know, Gropin''th''ough de quiet woods, out in de cold an''snow;"Is dat you, Br''er Rab?"
20072So-- with a business missive in each hand-- Will three words do?
20072Sometimes I get by with it; and Sometimes she does n''t spoil a film-- Is n''t the public lucky that we did n''t Stick to our callings?
20072Sometimes he''d pull my ears And say,"Hear dat Bob White?
20072THE ALIEN( Of course, this did n''t happen, But if it had-- Would you have been shocked?)
20072THE BOLD LOVER He held her hand, and joy shone in his eyes; The world and all therein to him was fair; What mattered now the gloomy, lowering skies?
20072THE SMALL BOY EXPLAINS Some people say the sky is blue Acause it''s warshed by rains up there; I dunno if''at''s so, do you?
20072The surgeon smiles...."If he can make A capture in the night When doing Red Cross work, what would He do if he should_ fight_?"
20072Then he said,"Well, ai n''t you tired o''ham?"
20072Though your firm white hand Was cut by the reins you had held too long,"Dear Cave- man, I love you,"you said;"is it wrong?"
20072Was that foolish, or brave?
20072We figure fortunes that six hens Will bring us-- if we keep''em penned; And yet, when farmers are the butt Of jokes, who rises to defend?
20072We''re all of us willin'', but why keep us drillin''Forever?...
20072We''re human( Does that seem so strange?)
20072Well, I do n''t care-- I DO-- How could I''MEMBER all these things, unlessen they was true?
20072What''s th''meanin''of the look you see in soldiers''eyes?
20072Will it ever start?
20072Will there be wars, and men Inventing things?
20072You can bet we did:"Who gave you the right to kick, you steer, Over what she brings us?
20072You do n''t believe a word I say?
20072You see this stubby tail of mine?
20072You wo n''t?
20072she asked.... How did she divine That_ I_ am not married?...
20072when he sees me a- limpin''to the Gate, And mebbe( where is my old han''kerchief a- got to now?)
46427--------(_ For a general grave on Vimy Ridge_) You come from England?
46427Ah, what has England done?
46427And in the land they guard so well Is there no silent watch to keep?
46427And pass with the willing and worthy to give Life, that freedom and faith may live?
46427And through the leagues above her She looked, aghast, and said:"What is this living ship that comes Where every ship is dead?"
46427But in what Spartan school of discipline Did you get patience, boy?
46427Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul''s-- Deem ye the fame of the Admiral falls?
46427David 118 What Has England Done?
46427GILBERT MURRAY_ By permission of the Author_ LUSITANIA(_ May 7, 1915_) Who that can strike a blow Now will refrain?
46427Glory sought is Honour lost, How should this be knighthood''s end?
46427Grievous the pain; but, in the day When all the cost is counted o''er, Would it be best that you should say:"We lost no loved ones in the war"?
46427Guns of Metz they grumble,"When?"
46427Hast thou counted up the cost, What to foeman, what to friend?
46427Have you any five- pound notes about you?
46427Have you any of those neat little Treasury one- pound notes?
46427He called out,"Who''s that coming along?"
46427How did you learn to bear this long- drawn pain And not complain?
46427How stem the sweep of the conquering tide?
46427Is she England still?
46427Is this the end of all our woes?
46427JOHN OXENHAM_ By permission of the Author_ WHAT HAS BRITAIN DONE?
46427Know''st thou what is Hatred''s meed?
46427May I say let us keep both eyes?
46427May I tell you, in a simple parable, what I think this war is doing for us?
46427Pry the stone from the chancel floor,-- Dream ye that Shakespeare shall live no more?
46427Restless with throbbing hopes, with thwarted aims, Impulsive as a colt, How do you lie here month by weary month Helpless and not revolt?
46427SIR OWEN SEAMAN EDITH CAVELL(_ October 12, 1915_) Dead?
46427See now, our mother, these are they that clung Once to thy breasts, and are they not well sung?"
46427Shall we not suffer more?"
46427The ghostly vessels trembled From ruined stern to prow; What was this thing of terror That broke their vigil now?
46427The grim_ Titanic_ greeted her--"And who art thou?"
46427WHAT HAS ENGLAND DONE?
46427WHAT OF THE FIGHT?
46427WINSTON CHURCHILL THE DEBT UNPAYABLE What have I given, Bold sailor on the sea, In earth or heaven, That you should die for me?
46427What are they made of?
46427What are they worth?
46427What can I give, O soldier, leal and brave, Long as I live, To pay the life you gave?
46427What harvest might we hope from such a sowing?
46427What has Britain done?
46427What has Britain done?
46427What has Britain done?
46427What has Britain done?
46427What has Britain done?
46427What has England done?
46427What has she done?
46427What is a treaty, says the German Chancellor, but a scrap of paper?
46427What is it to us if the world is mad?
46427What joy can these monotonous days afford Here in a ward?
46427What matter?
46427What noonday from a dawning so complete?
46427What of the fight?
46427What of the fight?
46427What of the men of the furrow, men of the hammer and spade, Men without heart for the soldier, loathing his life and his trade?
46427What the surest gain of Greed?
46427What tithe or part Can I return to thee, O stricken heart, That thou shouldst break for me?
46427What?
46427When the reply was,"General Currie", he said,"Are the Canadians coming down here?"
46427Where else in the whole world can such conditions be paralleled?
46427Where is the giant shot that kills Wordsworth walking the old green hills?
46427Where is the ideal of the Germany of to- day?
46427Who can have any ease Now while they live?
46427Who dies if England live?
46427Who knows?
46427Who stands if freedom fall?
46427Who that can strike a blow Now will refrain?
46427Who that has prayed for peace Now will forgive?
46427Who with the right to go Now will remain?
46427Who with the right to go Now will remain?
46427Who?
46427Why is our honour as a country involved in this war?
46427Why?
46427Winston 16 What of the Fight?
46427With the world in the balance, what shall decide?
46427You ask what she has done?
46427Your feet were bleeding as You walked our pavements-- How_ did_ we miss Your Footprints on our pavements?-- Can there be other folk as blind as we?
46427_ Punishment?_ What punishment could fit so foul a crime?
46427_ Punishment?_ What punishment could fit so foul a crime?
46427she said;"Why dost thou join our ghostly fleet Arrayed in living red?
46427whither have we fled, my son?
46427wilt thou dare to- night Pray that God defend the Right?
39614Art from Lancashire, melad?
39614Birds and butterflies and trees, And the long hush of the breeze Shimmering over the silken grass, What wouldst thou have more than these?... 39614 How to comfort you, Share any part?
39614O baby, are thine eyelids closed Faster than my eyes supposed? 39614 Well, wot say?"
39614What glows gold taller than earthly tree In that maze of mast on mast Of the scaffolding? 39614 Who''s hit?"
39614''Nay, can thine eye catch but one?''
39614A thief?
39614And bear alone thy cross also Anigh to the foot of a bare hill?
39614And the proud, morning Centaur, how Fares he?
39614And to thrust against thy will Through thy mother''s bosom the sharpest sword?
39614Anger._ Creep I now close....( Has he not heard Ever the lamb cry as the bird Descends upon its helpless head To pluck its eyes out?
39614Be bolder: Light you now upon my shoulder.... Cooroo?
39614Blank with dread Did he ne''er press in stumbling haste Over the wide moor''s tossing waste?
39614Can it be, Daisies innocent and good, That ye star black Calvary?
39614Can not Pan a shrewd watch keep O''er his own?
39614Can they have seen The Centaur hurtle by between Them and the clouds?
39614Cooroo in my ear?
39614DANAË MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS DANAË: MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS I"What with clangour, clangour of iron din, Do they beat till daylight ring?
39614Deignest thou, then, to race with me From such tall eyries to the sea, If even now I upward leap?
39614Draws he nigher?
39614Eye- of- fire, sweet Snowy- wings, Think you that you can discover On what great green down my lover Lies by his sunny sheep and sings?
39614Flutter!--where''s my song?
39614For am not I a goat?
39614For what is my heart so aching?
39614From this blaze of light Do I plunge suddenly Into Vortex?
39614Hath not he in the forum room To vent himself, that now with rude Rabble he scareth Solitude From her ultimate hiding- place?
39614Hear''Trumpeter, what are you sounding?''
39614His men Whispered:"Where''s Mister Gates?"
39614Honour it is that calls: canst thou forget Once thou wert strong?
39614I wander on, I fade in mist, O peopled World, and dost thou list?
39614I''ve a love... the sun''s shining And where''s the man would be dead?"
39614II"What art mooning at, fool?
39614II.--THE PAST How to escape the bondage of the past?
39614Is death so near, then?
39614Is it I sleep?
39614Is it home?
39614Is it love?
39614Is it sleep?
39614Is it sudden terror Burdens my heart?
39614Is it tears?
39614It was hard Not to see them: Wilkinson, stubby, grim, With his"No, sir,""Yes, sir,"and the slim Simpson:"Indeed, sir?"
39614Jewels wouldst thou, then, O bird?
39614Let it burn, then, left and right:"Where, O where, is Punchinello?
39614Lets no one ever see her back?''
39614Long I look on the deepening sky, The chill star, the forlorn sea breaking; For what does my spirit cry?
39614Must I fare, then, in fear and fever On a journey become thrice far-- Whose sun has gone down for ever, Whose night brings no guiding star?
39614Night?
39614None for wee Amoret?
39614One Day, or maybe one Night-- Living?
39614Or, stripped to plunge, did never eye The sunned pool smiling treacherously, Despair and terror in his heart?
39614Pull the bell: is she within?
39614Rose, to be torn in sunder so?
39614Scaramouch too, that gay fellow?
39614Sing I?
39614Sleeps the newly- buried clay Or doth divinity trouble it to live alway?
39614So on, beating, to her street: What sight Pierrot''s eyes doth greet?
39614Some wanton boy and his limbs?
39614Start: How''s time?
39614Surging of relief and joy: Welcome then?
39614That stirs an ancient tenderness, A new need to console, love, bless All things that''neath this warm night sky Rejoice and suffer, age and die?
39614Then stride I?
39614Then,"Is the doctor here?"
39614They heard him moan"Why for me?"
39614Time goes quick; A stumbled prayer... somehow a blazing star In a blue night... where?
39614To hang gibbeted and abhorred, For passers- by to wish thee ill?
39614V.--AT THE WARS Now that I am ta''en away, And may not see another day, What is it to my eye appears?
39614Was there grief once?
39614Was there grief once?
39614Was there love once?
39614What can it be They build so secret and fast?"
39614What heat, that I see the night air spin, And sparks dance over the scaffolding?
39614What is''t, bird, thy soul demands?
39614What joy is mine?
39614What need of comfort has the heroic soul?
39614What soldier finds a soldier''s grave is chill?
39614What sound rings in my stricken ears?
39614Wherefore, baby, must thou go?
39614Wherefore, since the gods agree, Youth is sweet and Night is free, And Love pleasure, should not we?
39614Who now sings The noon''s and his own tristfulness?
39614With eyes grieving on space, Has she sight among all these blind?
39614With foxes must thy bed be maken, A beggar with beggars must thou go, To be at last forsworn, forsaken?
39614XI.--FULFILMENT Was there love once?
39614_ Faun._ Shall not I Echo thy pain, whom Fates deny Answer to thought,--as they to thee The lust- of- action''s fill?
39614_ Of the Faun''s Wake I?
39614amid the woodland green_ Of the What mantles of strange blue are seen?
39614and what''s it all about?
39614is he a man_ The Faun''s So dares affront the great god Pan?
39614out of the Night, O Friends: O all my dead, think ye our friendship ends?
39614past words unsaid?
39614what festive cries are they_ Of the Which greet me as I top the mound?
39614what is''t I have: Immortal life?
39614what voice is this can make The vagrant heart within me ache?
39614where the sunlight lies Here scalding gold, and yonder dies Into a humid, still, green gloom?
39614who is''t that shakes The night with fervour?
39614why took you not my life instead?
39614wot''s up?"
27126_ After?_... For thee may be no after!
27126_ Dear heart, for this end I did live, To this end did I die._And if I fall away again, And bring Thy Love to shame?
27126_ I''ll find thee out where''er thou art, And still thy love will claim._All this for me, whose constant lack Doth cause Thee constant pain?
27126_ It was to win thee back from them I wore the crown of thorn._And, spite of all, Thou canst forgive, And still attend my cry?
27126_ My fodder_? 27126 _ Rest of the weary, joy of the sad._"TO THIS END And hast Thou help for such as me, Sin- weary, stained, forlorn?
27126_ With one soft kiss I will restore your sight._And Thou wilt do all this for me?--for me?
27126_ Yea then,--if not for such as thee To what end was I born?_But I have strayed so far away, So oft forgotten Thee.
27126( A WARNING)"_ Am I my brother''s keeper_?"
27126--Such a day of vast upsettings, Dire outcastings and downsettings!-- You have held the reins too long,-- Have you time to heal the wrong?
27126--That thought of self had held in thrall His soul, and shrunk it mean and small?
27126--You ask what''s amiss when your destinies Hang by a thread in the great abyss?
27126--he groaned, through a lump of chewed grass,"_ Are_ they treasures?
27126.............................. WHAT?
27126..._ Then bid Me to the Board!_"*****_ Can we not rise to such great height of glory?
271261916 Where are all the_ young_ men?
27126An''it done them good, an''it done me good, So what''s the odds if I does go lean, For a day or two, till the nibs comes in?
27126And I said to myself,--"What if those should dare To claim from these others their rightful share?"
27126Are our faces grave, and our eyes intent?
27126Are our hands clean?
27126Are our souls free from blame For this world- tragedy?
27126Are we to be like all the rest, Or climb we loftier height?
27126Are ye not both,--both thou and he Of God''s great family?
27126Are you broken, heart- sick, weary?
27126Are you there?
27126Are you there?
27126CHRIST AT THE BAR MY BROTHER''S KEEPER?
27126Ca n''t you feel them in the air?
27126Ca n''t you see the signs and portents?
27126Ca n''t you see,--you unbeliever?
27126Can we our wayward steps arrest?-- All life with nobler life invest?-- And so fulfil our Lord''s behest?
27126Can you wonder?--Can you wonder, That_ we_ wondered, As we heard the huns''guns thunder?
27126Do you dread each dark to- morrow?
27126Dost nothing owe to him who shares Thy couch, and suffers by thy cares?
27126For if not-- who?
27126Got that?
27126Hopeless?--Friendless?--No one caring?
27126How can the Lord Christ come again?
27126How of our sorrows build anew to Thee?
27126How rid thee of thy soul''s responsibility?
27126How shall we start, Lord, to build life again, Fairer and sweeter, and freed from its pain?
27126How shall we turn to good this weight of ill?
27126I said,"O most gentle and innocent beast, Say,--why is your burden so greatly increased?
27126IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?
27126Is He not surely fled For ever from a world where He Is still so buffeted?_"But the day''s glory all forbade Such depth of woe.
27126Is every ounce that is in us bent On the uttermost pitch of accomplishment?
27126Is it all your own treasures you have in your pack, That crumples your backbone and makes your ribs crack?
27126Is it done for a purpose, or just out of spite?
27126Is life worth living?
27126Is the burden past your bearing?
27126Is the faint heart ever quailing?
27126Is the future black with sorrow?
27126Is the light fur ever failing?
27126Is the pathway dark and dreary?
27126LONELY BROTHER Art thou lonely, O my brother?
27126Let each man tax his soul and say,--"Shall I again my Lord betray For my greed, or my goods, or my gold?"
27126MY BROTHER''S KEEPER?
27126Nay,--will He come again?
27126POLICEMAN X"Shall it be Peace?
27126ROSEMARY EASTER SUNDAY, 1916 THE CHILD OF THE MAID WASTED?
27126S. ELIZABETH''S LEPER VOX CLAMANTIS FLORA''S BIT RED BREAST OUR HEARTS FOR YOU THE BURDENED ASS WINNERS OR LOSERS?
27126Shall this vast sorrow spend itself in vain?
27126So curly, curly sweet!-- How will it be with you, dears, When all your work''s complete?
27126So why cloud to- day With fear of the sorrow, That may or may not Come to- morrow?
27126Soul, dost thou fear For to- day or to- morrow?
27126THE WAR- MAKERS_ Who are the Makers of Wars?_ The Kings of the earth.
27126That we looked in one another''s eyes And wondered,--"_ Is Christ indeed then risen from the dead?
27126That you?
27126Those others saw his plight, and laughed and jeered, And, at each helper''s fall, laughed more, and cheered;--God''s sons?
27126WASTED?
27126WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
27126WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
27126WHERE ARE YOU SLEEPING TO- NIGHT, MY LAD?
27126WHERE ARE YOU SLEEPING TO- NIGHT, MY LAD?
27126WINNERS OR LOSERS?
27126Was there ever, since ever the world was made, Such a horrible trade for a peace- loving maid, And such wonderful, terrible spinning?
27126What has become of the_ young_ men?
27126What of the night?
27126What room is left us then for doubt or fear?
27126What''s amiss?_ Man alive!
27126What?
27126Whence come you?
27126Where are you sleeping to- night, My Lad, Above- ground-- or below?
27126Where go you?
27126Who loads you like this, beyond reason and right?
27126Why do you delay?"
27126Would you wish that he had stayed, When all the rest The Call obeyed?
27126You hear it?
27126_ And Wisdom?--does that come by birth?_ Nay then-- too often the reverse.
27126_ And who are these Kings of the earth?_ Only men-- not always even men of worth, But claiming rule by right of birth.
27126_ The wires humming?_ No, my friend, it is_ not_!
27126_ Thy brother''s keeper_?
27126_ What trouble?_ Every trouble,--everywhere, Every wildest kind of nightmare That has ridden you is there, In the air.
27126_ What''s amiss?
27126_ What''s wrong?
27126_ What''s wrong?_ Listen here!-- Do you catch a sound like drumming?-- Far- away and distant drumming?
27126_ What''s wrong?_ Listen here!-- Do you catch a sound like drumming?-- Far- away and distant drumming?
27126_ Where?_ Ah-- that''s beyond me!-- But it lies with those who dare To think of big To- morrows, And intend to have their share.
27126_ Where?_ In the air.
315And whit did she send ye?
315They''re baith sairly woundit, but is it no droll Hoo they rave aboot haggis?
315Well, wot abaht it, lad?
315What is the matter, Young Fellow My Lad? 315 Why do n''t you write, Young Fellow My Lad?
315''E AIN''T''ARF PRIME._"Young Fellow My Lad"Where are you going, Young Fellow My Lad, On this glittering morn of May?"
315''OW LONG,''OW LONG?_ Wounded Is it not strange?
315''OW LONG,''OW LONG?_ Wounded Is it not strange?
315''Oo''s that singin''so''earty?
315( Will you pass me the sugar, old chap?
315)_ Fleurette( The Wounded Canadian Speaks) My leg?
315Ai n''t War just''ell?
315Ai n''t''e a bit of the real all right?
315All morning I heard him fret:"Oh, when will she come, Fleurette?"
315And shall I miss the biggest?
315And what are pouting lips for if they ca n''t be kissed?
315And''e says:"Wot d''ye think of it, Lizer Ann?"
315Are ye hurtit?"
315Are ye woundit?"
315Ay, wot the''ell''s the use of all this talk?
315By the cheers of our Victory will the heart of the mother be comforted?
315Ca n''t I believe my eyes?
315Can you wonder now I am gay?
315D''ye think he''d listen?
315Dead?
315Did I give it''i m?
315Did you say: Put you down?
315Do I finish my little job?
315Do I miss it?
315Fight for the right to slave that they may spend, Them in their mansions, me''ere in my slum?
315For a while they were silent; then up once again Spoke Private McPhee, though he whussilt wi''pain:"And why should we miss it?
315God, ca n''t You hear my cry?
315God, will it never have done?
315Have n''t you a tear for them Going out so gallantly to dare and die?
315Have you any children?"
315Here in the hellish glare Why must I suffer so?
315I could only stare, I was taken so by surprise, When gently she bent her head:"May I kiss you, Sergeant?"
315I stares like a man wot''s stuck, For wot do I see?
315I wonder, Bill, if''Ans and Fritz is wonderin''like me Wot''s at the bottom of it all?
315I''m goin''''ome to Blighty: can you wonder as I''m gay?
315Is it Eddy or me Wot''s a- bleedin''so free?
315Is it God does n''t care?
315Is it God does n''t know?
315John tried his grief to drown; To- day James owns one- half the town; His army contracts riches yield; And John?
315Lor, yus;_ DON''T_ they look glad?
315Mine?
315My man?
315No trumps you make it, I think you said?
315Now he''s finished with,--nothing to show: Does n''t it seem a shame?
315Now war is a funny thing, ai n''t it?
315Now what would you do?
315Now wot I wants to know is, why it was n''t me was took?
315Oh blimy, it''s a shame!_ A- singin''"''Oo''s Yer Lady Friend?"
315Oh, it''s:"Sandy, ma lad, will you lilt us a tune?"
315Oh, mother dear, I''m wondering can God be here?
315Old pal, it''s all right; It''s a''ell of a fight, But are we down-''earted?
315Or is it that you try to show Life still is joy and all is well?
315Picters, statoos, is that why You should be let off to die?
315Quick''e throws''is''ands above''is nob; Speakin''English good as me:"''Tain''t no use to kill,"says''e;"Ca n''t yer tyke me prisoner instead?"
315Sez I: My Country?
315Show you mercy?
315So when the war broke out, sez''e:"Well, wot abaht it, Joe?"
315Some high hymn of Motherland?
315Some immortal chanson of their Faith and King?
315That the best ye done?
315The Coward''Ave you seen Bill''s mug in the Noos to- day?
315The Volunteer Sez I: My Country calls?
315The only thing I''m wondering is when Some stretcher- men will stroll along my way?
315The rustle of grass, or the passing quiver Of one of the ghosts of No Man''s Land?
315Them politicians with their greasy ways; Them empire- grabbers-- fight for''em?
315Then I stumbled on one of their dug- outs, and I shouted:"Is anyone there?"
315Then down the lake came Half- breed Tom with russet sail a- flying, And the word he said was"War"again, so what was I to do?
315Then sudden he stoppit:"Man, wis it no grand Hoo we took a''them trenches?"
315Then:"Will you surrender?"
315They''re up to somethin''--''oo''ll volunteer To crawl in the dark and see?''
315Think ye our glory and gain will pay for the torrent of blood we have shed?
315WON''T you take me in?
315Was I killed, do you ask?
315Was I weepin''for Missis Moriarty?
315Was it just the shiver Of an eerie wind or a clammy hand?
315We''re only beginning to find ourselves; we''re wonders of brawn and thew; But when we go back to our Sissy jobs,--oh, what are we going to do?
315What has happened since then, Since I lay with my face to the wall, The most despairing of men?
315What is it they''re singing so?
315What strange spell is over me?
315What was I saying?
315What was that?
315What was that?
315What''s the use of tearing him loose under a gruelling fire, When he''s shot in the head, and worse than dead, and all messed up on the wire?
315Where is all my vengeful joy?
315Who am I staring slap in the face?
315Who is that''malheureux''?"
315Why Do I pray for him to die?
315Why am I sittin''''ere Gazin''with mournful vision at a mug long empty of beer?
315Why am I so silent?
315Why did the postman look so sad, And sigh as he turned away?
315Why do I not shout with glee?
315Why have_ YOU_ come here alone, To this hearth''s blood- spattered stone?
315Will Glory o''England ever die So long as we''ve lads like him?
315Wot all the slaughter''s for?
315Wot did I do?
315Wot price the little bookay?"
315Wot the''ell?
315Wot the''ell?
315Wot the''ell?
315Wot was it jabbed at me shoulder?
315Yet may it not be, crime and war But effort misdirected are?
315Yet the thought comes thrilling through all my pain: how worthier could he die?
315You make it yourself, do you not?)
315You''ll wake up and''ear yourself sayin'':''Would you like, sir, to''ave a shampoo?''
315_ A DECENT JOB IN DYIN''._ The Song of the Pacifist What do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll of our Dead?
315ai n''t''e a man?"
315do you not know That we are making earth a hell?
315wo n''t Bill be glad When''e stares through the bleedin''clods and sees the blossoms of Jim and me?
315wot the''ell, Bill?
315wot the''ell, Bill?
315wot the''ell, Bill?
8820There is dust in my eyes, for I can not see,-- Is that my Michel to the right of thee, Soldier of France?
8820''T was more than I could compass, For how was I to think With such infernal rumpus In such a blasted stink?
8820All morning I heard him fret:"Oh, when will she come, Fleurette?"
8820And how shall I repay?
8820And in the land they guard so well Is there no silent watch to keep?
8820And shall my wreath return to dust?
8820And they who lead, who hold the van?
8820And what makes she, I wonder, Of the horror and the blood, And what''s her luck, to sunder The evil from the good?
8820And what was the next thing that she required?
8820And who will bring white peace That he may sleep upon his hill again?
8820And,"What do you call it?"
8820Art thou no more, O Maiden Heaven- born O Peace, bright Angel of the windless morn?
8820Blood on the sword, our eyes blood- red, Blind in our puny reign of power, Do we forget how soon is sped Our little hour?
8820Brave souls... but who remembers The flame that fired your embers?...
8820But in what Spartan school of discipline Did you get patience, boy?
8820But what would you have?
8820But when can me or my mates forget, When the Guards came through?
8820Can much pondering so hoodwink you?
8820Can you wonder now I am gay?
8820Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul''s-- Deem ye the fame of the Admiral falls?
8820Do I miss it?
8820For_ she_, was_ she_ not dear?
8820Fresh from the trenches and gray with grime, Silent they march like a pantomime;"But what need of music?
8820Ghosts do not say,"Come, what was your record when you drew breath?"
8820Guns of Metz they grumble,"When?"
8820Has your last word of sophistry been said, O cult of slaves?
8820He Who has given them-- are they not His?
8820He whistles down the day- long road, And, when the chilly shadows fall And heavier hangs the weary load, Is he down- hearted?
8820Heard ye the trumpet sound?
8820His face?-- His hands?
8820How did you learn to bear this long- drawn pain And not complain?
8820How does he escape them?
8820How long will the others dream and stare?
8820How should I pay for one poor graven steeple Whereon you shattered what you shall not know?
8820How should I pay you everything you owe?
8820How should I pay you, miserable people?
8820How should we kneel, in this dread hour?
8820How should we seek to Thee for power Who scorned Thee yesterday?
8820I could only stare, I was taken so by surprise, When gently she bent her head:"_ May I kiss you, sergeant?_"she said.
8820Is it a purblind prank, O think you, Friend with the musing eye Who watch us stepping by, With doubt and dolorous sigh?
8820Is it a purblind prank, O think you, Friend with the musing eye?
8820Kaiser, face a question new-- This-- does God approve of you?
8820Mrs. Grace Ellery Channing Stetson and the New York_ Tribune_:--"_Qui Vive_?"
8820Oh, might I lie on the wind, or fly In the wilful sea- bird''s track, Would I hurry on, with a homesick cry-- Or hasten back?
8820Oh, then where is he?
8820Pry the stone from the chancel floor,-- Dream ye that Shakespeare shall live no more?
8820Regret?
8820Restless with throbbing hopes, with thwarted aims, Impulsive as a colt, How do you lie here month by weary month Helpless, and not revolt?
8820Rudyard Kipling_ MARE LIBERUM You dare to say with perjured lips,"We fight to make the ocean free"?
8820Shall I ever smile or feel again?
8820She had to ask,"What was it, dear?"
8820She had to look-- to ask,"What was it, dear?"
8820THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: What guff are you giving us, Captain?
8820The fool hath said...._ And we, who deemed him wise, We who believed that Thou wast dead, How should we seek Thine eyes?
8820The grass is waking in the ground, Soon it will rise and blow in waves-- How can it have the heart to sway Over the graves, New graves?
8820The sun turns north, the days grow long, Later the evening star grows bright-- How can the daylight linger on For men to fight, Still fight?
8820Though I forgave, would any man forget?
8820Though the dividing sea My leg?
8820Under the boughs where lovers walked The apple- blooms will shed their breath-- But what of all the lovers now Parted by Death, Grey Death?
8820Unhappy, can I give you back your honour?
8820Was n''t she glad now?
8820Was there grief once?
8820Was there grief once?
8820Was there love once?
8820We can but give our tears-- Ye dead men, who shall bring you Fame in the coming years?
8820We have not lived in hate What have I given What is the gift we have given thee, Sister?
8820What approaches there?
8820What are the bounds of No Man''s Land?
8820What can I give, O soldier, leal and brave, Long as I live, To pay the life you gave?
8820What canst thou do but bow to me and kneel?"
8820What for all time will the harvest be, Sister?
8820What is the price of that dead man they brought me?
8820What is the price of that red spark that caught me From a kind farm that never had a name?
8820What is the trust we have laid in thy hand?
8820What joy can these monotonous days afford Here in a ward?
8820What matter?
8820What new- wing''d world, or mangled god still- born?
8820What of the faith and fire within us What was it kept you so long, brave German submersible?
8820What richly moves, what lightly stirs, Like a noble lady in a dance, When all men''s eyes are in love with hers And needs must follow?
8820What song shall be worthy to sing of them-- Braver than the brave?
8820What sound the ear dismays, Mine Italy, mine Italy?
8820What soundless tumult, what breath in the air Takes the breath in the throat, the blood from the heart?
8820What tithe or part Can I return to thee, O stricken heart, That thou shouldst break for me?
8820What was joy?
8820What was pain?
8820What whispers, thrills, exults up there?
8820What will spring up from the seed that is sown?
8820When we have bled at every pore, Shall we still strive for gear and store?
8820Where are her sons who waged at cricket Warfare against the foeman- friend?
8820Where are the teams of last December?
8820Where do those strong young feet now stand?
8820Where is the giant shot that kills Wordsworth walking the old green hills?
8820Who called?
8820Who dies if England live?
8820Who is that_ malheureux_?"
8820Who moves-- what stirs in the startled air?
8820Who stands if freedom fall?
8820Will he live-- will he last-- will he make it?
8820Will it be Heaven?
8820Will it be Hell, When there is Peace?
8820Will it ever peal again?
8820Yea, when the sick world cries, how can he sleep?
8820Yet Pity whispered,"Why?"
8820You have heard?
8820You have heard?
8820_ Florence Earle Coates_ TO FRANCE What is the gift we have given thee, Sister?
8820_ Frederick George Scott__ In a Field near Ypres__ April, 1915_ TO OUR FALLEN Ye sleepers, who will sing you?
8820_ Frederick George Scott__ QUI VIVE?__ Qui vive?_ Who passes by up there?
8820_ Frederick George Scott__ QUI VIVE?__ Qui vive?_ Who passes by up there?
8820_ Frederick George Scott__ QUI VIVE?__ Qui vive?_ Who passes by up there?
8820_ Herbert Asquith__ 1915_ THE DEBT UNPAYABLE What have I given, Bold sailor on the sea, In earth or heaven, That you should die for me?
8820_ Qui vive?_ Who comes?
8820_ Qui vive?_ Who comes?
8820_ Qui vive?_"The Flags of France."
8820_ Robert Ernest Vernède_ FULFILMENT Was there love once?
8820_ Robert Haven Schauffler_ FLEURETTE THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS: My leg?
8820_ Who_ comes?
8820_"Qui vive?