It would not be well were all these voices lost. Many are worth fixation where they may be heard again at will, and that is the reason for and purpose of this book. The finest and truest of them are given here.

In making selection, availability for recitation has been considered. There is no better way to stir the mind or fix the memory than by spoken words of beauty in rhythmic cadence, especially in schools. It is hoped they will be effective in such uses.

Readers will find in the captain notes many helpful sidelights upon topics and personalities. These will commend themselves for their own sake.

W. D. Eaton.

The Press Club, Chicago.

CONTENTS

[Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight]Vachel Lindsay[144]
[Aceldama]Dr. George F. Butler[117]
[Afterward]Charles Hanson Towne[133]
[Alan Seeger]Washington Van Dusen[14]
[Ambulance Driver’s Prayer, An]Chaplain Thomas F. Coakley[74]
[American Creed, An]Everard Jack Appleton[57]
[Anxious Anthemist, The]Guy Forrester Lee[169]
[Anxious Dead, The]Lieut. Col. John McCrae[109]
[April Song, An]George C. Michael[189]
[Armed Liner, The]H. Smalley Sarson[183]
[“As She Is Spoke”] [113]
[As the Trucks Go Rollin’ By]Lieut. L. W. Suckert[26]
[Australia’s Men]Dorothea Mackellar[96]
[Battle Line, The]J. B. Dollard[65]
[Battle of Belleau Wood]Edgar A. Guest[29]
[Before Action]Lieut. William Noel Hodgson[13]
[Blighty]Lieut. Siegfried Sassoon, M. C.[121]
[Blue and the Gray in France]George M. Mayo[41]
[Boy Next Door, The]S. E. Kiser[172]
[British Army of 1914, The]Alfred W. Pollard[119]
[Bullington]C. Fox Smith[34]
[But a Short Time to Live]Sergt. Leslie Coulson[103]
[Call, The]Robert W. Service[106]
[Christ in Flanders]L. W.[55]
[Clerk, The]B. H. M. Hetherington[94]
[Columbia’s Prayer]Thomas P. Bashaw[82]
[Corp’ral’s Chevrons] [37]
[Cross and the Flag, The]William Henry, Cardinal O’Connell[45]
[Crown, The]Helen Combes[193]
[Crutches’ Tune, The]Elizabeth R. Stoner[108]
[Destroyers]“Klaxon”[84]
[Dirge, A]Victor Perowne[90]
[Do Your All]Edgar A. Guest[152]
[Drum, The]Joseph Lee[67]
[Easter-Eggs]Reginald Wright Kauffman[89]
[Edith Cavell]McLandburgh Wilson[178]
[Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier]Annette Kohn[202]
[Evening Star, The]Harold Seton[81]
[Flag Everlasting]A. G. Riddoch[40]
[Flag of the Free]Francis T. Smith[153]
[Flag Speaks, The]Walter E. Peck[105]
[Flag, The]Edward A. Horton[173]
[Flemish Village, A]H. A.[92]
[France]Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson[93]
[French in the Trenches]William J. Robinson[19]
[Gentlemen of Oxford, The]Norah M. Holland[115]
[Going West]Eleanor Jewett[123]
[Goldenrod, The]“Anchusa”[129]
[Gold Star, The]Edgar A. Guest[17]
[Graves of Gallipoli, The]L. L. (A. N. Z. A. C.)[27]
[Great Adventure, The]Major Kendall Banning[68]
[“Hearts Are Touching”][159]
[Here at Verdun]Chester M. Wright[167]
[Homecoming, The]Leroy Folge[192]
[Hymn of Freedom, A]Mary Perry King[98]
[I Have a Rendezvous with Death]Alan Seeger[99]
[In Flanders’ Fields]Lieut. Col. John McCrae[101]
[In the Front-Line Desks]Lieut. Elmer Franklin Powell[143]
[Jean Desprez]Robert W. Service[146]
[John Doe—Buck Private]Allan P. Thomson[127]
[Just Thinking]Hudson Hawley[80]
[Kid Has Gone to the Colors]William Herschell[23]
[Kings, The]Hugh J. Hughes[145]
[Let There Be Light!]Ruth Wright Kauffman[196]
[Litany]Allene Gregory[20]
[Little Grimy-Fingered Girl, A]Lee Wilson Dodd[43]
[Little Home Paper, The]Charles Hanson Towne[15]
[Little Town in Senegal, A]Will Thompson[42]
[Lonely Garden, The]Edgar A. Guest[118]
[Lost Ones, The]Francis Ledwidge[104]
[Magpies in Picardy]“Tipcuca”[130]
[Man Behind, The]Douglas Malloch[166]
[Marines, The]Adolphe E. Smylie[73]
[Men of the Blood and Mire]Daniel M. Henderson[160]
[Mike Dillon, Doughboy]Lieut. John Pierre Roche[61]
[Morituri Te Salutant]P. H. B. L.[120]
[Mules]C. Fox Smith[187]
[Nazareth]“L.”[47]
[Nineteen-Seventeen]Susan Hooker Whitman[85]
[No Man’s Land]Capt. James H. Knight-Adkin[16]
[Not Too Old to Fight]T. C. Harbaugh[75]
[Not with Vain Tears]Lieut. Rupert Brooke[102]
[November Eleventh]Elizabeth Hanly[198]
[Old Gang on the Corner, The]William Herschell[64]
[Old Jim]Norman Shannon Hall[199]
[Old Top Sergeant, The]Berton Braley[38]
[On His Own]Adolphe E. Smylie[124]
[Our Soldier Dead]Annette Kohn[195]
[Padre, The]Capt. C. W. Blackall[36]
[Passing the Buck]Sergt. Norman E. Nygaard[32]
[Pershing at the Tomb of Lafayette]Amelia Josephine Burr[52]
[Pierrot Goes]Charlotte Becker[49]
[Poilu]Steuart M. Emery[95]
[“Poor Old Ship!” ] C. Fox Smith[30]
[Poppies]Capt. John Mills Hanson[25]
[Present Battlefield, The]Wright Field[197]
[Ragnarok]Arthur Guiterman[21]
[Rain on Your Old Tin Hat]Lieut. J. H. Wickersham[182]
[Refugees, The]W. G. S.[162]
[Retinue, The]Katharine Lee Bates[137]
[Return, The]Theodore Howard Banks, Jr.[33]
[Ride in France, A]“O. C. Platoon”[170]
[Rivers of France, The]H. J. M.[79]
[Road to France, The]Daniel M. Henderson[46]
[Runner McGee]Edgar A. Guest[57]
[Scrap of Paper, A]Herbert Kaufman[24]
[Service Flag, The]J. E. Evans[158]
[Service Flag, The]William Herschell[154]
[Ships that Sail in the Night]Dysart McMullen[126]
[Silent Army, The]Ian Adanac[86]
[Small Town Sport, A]Damon Runyon[155]
[Soldiers of the Soil]Everard Jack Appleton[44]
[Soldier, The]Lieut. Rupert Brooke[102]
[Somewhere in France]Le Roy C. Henderson[157]
[Somewhere in France, 1918]Almon Hensley[132]
[Song of the Air, The]Gordon Alchin[190]
[Song of the Dead, The]J. H. M. Abbott[161]
[Song of the Guns, The]Herbert Kaufman[134]
[Song of the Winds]Mary Lanier Magruder[163]
[Spires of Oxford, The]Winifred M. Letts[114]
[Spring]F. M. H. D.[123]
[Tanks]O. C. A. Child[97]
[Telling the Bees]G. E. R.[136]
[There Will Be Dreams Again]Mabel Hillyer Eastman[171]
[They Shall Not Pass]Alison Brown[125]
[They Shall Return]J. Lewis Milligan[179]
[Three Hills]Everard Owen[60]
[To Happier Days]Mabel McElliott[111]
[To Serve Is to Gain]Charles H. Mackintosh[179]
[To Somebody]Harold Seton[69]
[“To the Irish Dead”]Essex Evans[180]
[To the Writer of “Christ in Flanders”]E. M. V.[69]
[Trains]Lieut. John Pierre Roche[53]
[Two Viewpoints]Amelia Josephine Burr[83]
[Victory!]S. J. Duncan-Clark[191]
[Vision]Dorothy Paul[181]
[Vive La France!]Charlotte Holmes Crawford[139]
[War]Col. William Lightfoot Visscher[70]
[War Horse, The]Lieut. L. Fleming[174]
[War Rosary, The]Nellie Hurst[185]
[Watchin’ Out for Subs]U. A. L.[18]
[Wayside in France, A]Adolphe E. Smylie[76]
[We’re Marchin’ with the Country]Frank L. Stanton[151]
[“What Think Ye?”]W. A. Briscoe[165]
[When Private Mugrums Parley Voos]Pvt. Charles Divine[186]
[While Summers Pass]Aline Michaelis[72]
[Widow, The]Miss C. M. Mitchell[51]
[With the Same Pride]Theodosia Garrison[116]
[Woes of a Rookie, The]William L. Colestock[141]
[Your Lad, and My Lad]Randall Parrish[112]

GREAT POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR

BEFORE ACTION
LIEUT. WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON