A Treasury of War
Poetry


British and American Poems
of the World War
1914-1917

Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by
George Herbert Clarke
Professor of English in the University of Tennessee


Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1917

To All Those Who Fight For Freedom

"Hark! now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldiers Gentlemen!"
--Corporal John Brown, Grenadier Guards, 1854.

"Life is no life to him that dares not die,
And death no death to him that dares not live."
-- Sir Henry Newbolt.

"We saw not clearly nor understood,
But, yielding ourselves to the master-hand,
Each in his part as best he could,
We played it through as the author planned."
-- Alan Seeger.

Contents

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors

Index of Poem Titles

Occasional Notes