Chapter XX: Women and War

JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY: Harvest Moon

JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY: Harvest Moon: 1916

ADA TYRRELL: My Son

KATHARINE TYNAN: To the Others

GRACE FALLOW NORTON: The Journey

MARGARET PETERSON: A Mother's Dedication

EDEN PHILLPOTTS: To a Mother

SARA TEASDALE: Spring In War-Time

OCCASIONAL NOTES

INDEXES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Editor desires to express his cordial appreciation of the assistance rendered him in his undertaking by the officials of the British Museum (Mr. F.D. Sladen, in particular); Professor W. Macneile Dixon, of the University of Glasgow; Professor Kemp Smith, of Princeton University; Miss Esther C. Johnson, of Needham, Massachusetts; and Mr. Francis Bickley, of London. He wishes also to acknowledge the courtesies generously extended by the following authors, periodicals, and publishers in granting permission for the use of the poems indicated, rights in which are in each case reserved by the owner of the copyright:--

Mr. Francis Bickley and the _Westminster Gazette_:--"The Players."

Mr. F.W. Bourdillon and the _Spectator_:--"The Debt Unpayable."

Dr. Robert Bridges and the London _Times_:--"Lord Kitchener," and "To the United States of America."

Mr. Dana Burnet and the New York _Evening Sun_:--"The Battle of Liège."

Mr. Wilfred Campbell and the Ottawa _Evening Journal_:--"Langemarck at Ypres."

Mr. Patrick R. Chalmers and _Punch_:--"Guns of Verdun."

Mr. Cecil Chesterton and _The New Witness_:--"France."

Mr. Oscar C.A. Child and _Harper's Magazine_:--"To a Hero."

Mr. Reginald McIntosh Cleveland and the _New York Times_:--"Destroyers off Jutland."

Miss Charlotte Holmes Crawford and _Scribner's Magazine_:--"_Vive la France!_"

Mr. Moray Dalton and the _Spectator_:--"Rupert Brooke."

Lord Desborough and the London _Times_:--"Into Battle," by the late Captain Julian Grenfell.

Professor W. Macneile Dixon and the London _Times_:--"To Fellow Travellers in Greece,"

Mr. Austin, Dobson and the _Spectator_:--"'When There Is Peace;'"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the London _Times_:--"The Guards Came Through."

Mr. John Finley and the _Atlantic Monthly_:--"The Road to Dieppe"; Mr. Finley, the American Red Cross, and the _Red Cross Magazine_:--"The Red Cross Spirit Speaks."

Mr. John Freeman and the _Westminster Gazette_:--"The Return."

Mr. Robert Frost and the _Yale Review_:--"Not to Keep."

Mr. John Galsworthy and the _Westminster Gazette_:--"England to Free Men"; Mr. Galsworthy and the London _Chronicle_:--"Russia--America."

Mrs. Theodosia Garrison and _Scribner's Magazine_:--"The Soul of Jeanne d'Arc."

Lady Glenconner and the London _Times_:--"Home Thoughts from Laventie," by the late Lieutenant E. Wyndham Tennant.

Mr. Robert Grant and the _Nation_ (New York):--"The Superman."

Mr. Hermann Hagedorn and the _Century Magazine_:--"Resurrection."

Mr. James Norman Hall and the _Spectator_:--"The Cricketers of Flanders."

Mr. Thomas Hardy and the London _Times_:--"Men Who March Away," and "Then and Now."

Mr. John Helston and the _English Review_:--"Kitchener."

Mr. Maurice Hewlett:--"In the Trenches," from _Sing-Songs of the War_ (The Poetry Bookshop).

Dr. A. E. Hillard:--"The Dawn Patrol," by Lieutenant Paul Bewsher.

Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson:--"To the Others" and "The Old Soldier."

Mrs. Florence T. Holt and the _Atlantic Monthly_:--"England and America."

Mr. William Dean Howells and the _North American Review_:--"The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible."

Lady Hutchinson:--"Sonnets," by the late Lieutenant Henry William Hutchinson.

Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson:--"To Russia New and Free," from _Poems of War and Peace_, published by the author.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling:--"The Choice"; "'For All we Have and Are'"; and "The Mine-Sweepers." (Copyright, 1914, 1915, 1917, by Rudyard Kipling.)

Captain James H. Knight-Adkin and the _Spectator_;--"No Man's Land" and "_On Les Aura!_"

Sergeant Joseph Lee and the _Spectator_:--"German Prisoners."

Mr. E. V. Lucas and the _Sphere_:--"The Debt."

Mr. Walter de la Mare and the London _Times_:--"'How Sleep the Brave!'"; Mr. de la Mare and the _Westminster Gazette_:--"The Fool Rings his Bells."

Mr. Edward Marsh, literary executor of the late Rupert Brooke:--"The Soldier" and "The Dead."

Mr. Thomas L. Masson:--"The Red Cross Nurses," from the _Red Cross Magazine_.

Lieutenant Charles Langbridge Morgan and the _Westminster Gazette_:--"To America."

Sir Henry Newbolt:--"The Vigil"; "The War Films"; "The Toy Band," and "A Letter from the Front."

Mr. Alfred Noyes:--"Princeton, May, 1917"; "The Searchlights" (London _Times_), "A Prayer in Time of War" (London _Daily Mail_), and "Kilmeny."

Mr. Will H. Ogilvie:--"Canadians."

Mr. Barry Pain and the London _Times_:--"The Kaiser and God."

Miss Marjorie Pickthall and the London _Times_:--"Canada to England."

Canon H.D. Dawnsley and the _Westminster Gazette_:--"At St. Paul's, April 20, 1917."

Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond:--"A Song."

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ronald Ross and the _Poetry Review_:--"The Death of Peace."

Mr. Robert Haven Schauffler:--"The White Comrade."

Mr. W. Snow and the _Spectator_:--"Oxford in War-Time."

Mrs. Grace Ellery Channing Stetson and the New York _Tribune_:--"_Qui Vive_?"

Mr. Rowland Thirlmere and the _Poetry Review_:--"Jimmy Doane."

Mrs. Ada Turrell and the _Saturday Review_:--"My Son."

Dr. Henry van Dyke and the London _Times_:--"Liberty Enlightening the World," and "_Mare Liberum_"; Dr. van Dyke and the _Art World_: "The Name of France."

Mr. Tertius van Dyke and the _Spectator_:--"Oxford Revisited in War-Time."

Mrs. Edith Wharton:--"Belgium," from _King Albert's Book_ (Hearst's International Library Company).

Mr. George Edward Woodberry and the _Boston Herald_:--"On the Italian Front, MCMXVI"; Mr. Woodberry, the _New York Times_ and the _North American Review_:--"Sonnets Written in the Fall of 1914."

_The Athenaeum_:--"A Cross in Flanders," by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.

_The Poetry Review_:--"The Messines Road," by Captain J.E. Stewart; "-- But a Short Time to Live," by the late Sergeant Leslie Coulson.

_The Spectator_:--"The Challenge of the Guns," by Private A.N. Field.

The London _Times_:--"To Our Fallen" and "A Petition," by the late Lieutenant Robert Ernest Vernède.

The _Westminster Gazette_:--"Lines Written in Surrey, 1917," by George Herbert Clarke.

Messrs. Barse & Hopkins:--"Fleurette," by Robert W. Service.

The Cambridge University Press and Professor William R. Sorley:-- "_Expectans Expectavi_"; "'All the Hills and Vales Along,'" and "Two Sonnets," by the late Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley, from _Marlborough and Other Poems_.

Messrs. Chatto & Windus:--"Fulfilment" and "The Day's March," by Robert Nichols.

Messrs. Constable & Company:--"Pro Patria," "Thomas of the Light Heart," and "To Belgium in Exile," by Sir Owen Seaman, from _War-Time_; "To France" and "_Requiescant_," by Canon and Major Frederick George Scott, from _In the Battle Silences_.

Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company:--"To a Soldier in Hospital" (the _Spectator_); "Chaplain to the Forces" and "The Spires of Oxford" (_Westminster Gazette_), by Winifred M. Letts, from _Hallowe'en, and Poems of the War_; "A Chant of Love for England," by Helen Gray Cone, from _A Chant of Love for England, and Other Poems_ (published also by J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, London).

Lawrence J. Gomme:--"Italy in Arms," by Clinton Scollard, from _Italy in Arms, and Other Poems_.

Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company:--"To the Belgians"; "Men of Verdun"; "The Anvil"; "Edith Cavell"; "The Healers" and "For the Fallen," by Laurence Binyon, from _The Cause_ (published also by Elkin Mathews, London, in _The Anvil_ and _The Winnowing Fan_); "Headquarters," by Captain Gilbert Frankau, from _A Song of the Guns_; "Place de la Concorde" and "In War-Time," by Florence Earle Coates, from _The Collected Poems of Florence Earle Coates_; "Harvest Moon" and "Harvest Moon, 1915," by Josephine Preston Peabody, from _Harvest Moon_; "The Mobilization in Brittany" and "The Journey," by Grace Fallow Norton, from _Roads_, and "Rheims Cathedral--1914," by Grace Hazard Conkling, from _Afternoons of April_.

John Lane:--"The Kaiser and Belgium," by the late Stephen Phillips.

The John Lane Company:--"The Wife of Flanders," by Gilbert K. Chesterton, from _Poems_ (published also by Messrs. Burns and Gates, London); "The Soldier," and "The Dead," by the late Lieutenant Rupert Brooke, from _The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke_ (published also by Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, in _19l4, and Other Poems_).

Erskine Macdonald:--The following poems from _Soldier Poets_:--"The Beach Road by the Wood," by Lieutenant Geoffrey Howard; "Before Action," by the late Lieutenant W.N. Hodgson ("Edward Melbourne"); "Courage," by Lieutenant Dyneley Hussey; "Optimism," by Lieutenant A. Victor Ratcliffe; "The Battlefield," by Major Sidney Oswald; "To an Old Lady Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers," by Corporal Alexander Robertson; "The Casualty Clearing Station," by Lieutenant Gilbert Waterhouse; and "Hills of Home," by Lance-Corporal Malcolm Hemphrey.

The Macmillan Company:--"To Belgium"; "Verdun"; "To a Mother," and "Song of the Red Cross," by Eden Phillpotts, from _Plain Song, 1914-1916_ (published also by William Heinemann, London); "The Island of Skyros," by John Masefield; "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," from _The Congo and Other Poems_, by Vachel Lindsay; "O Glorious France," by Edgar Lee Masters, from _Songs and Satires_; "Christmas, 1915," from _Poems and Plays_, by Percy MacKaye; "The Hellgate of Soissons," by Herbert Kaufman, from _The Hellgate of Soissons_; "Spring in War-Time," by Sara Teasdale, from _Rivers to the Sea_; and "Retreat," "The Messages," and "Between the Lines," by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.

Messrs. Macmillan & Company:--"Australia to England," by Archibald T. Strong, from _Sonnets of the Empire_, and "Men Who March Away," by Thomas Hardy, from _Satires of Circumstance_.

Elkin Mathews:--"The British Merchant Service" (the _Spectator_), by C. Fox Smith, from _The Naval Crown_.

John Murray:--"The Sign," and "The Trenches," by Lieutenant Frederic Manning.

The Princeton University Press:--"To France," by Herbert Jones, from _A Book of Princeton Verse_.

Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons:--"I Have a Rendezvous with Death," and "Champagne, 1914-1915," by the late Alan Seeger, from _Poems_.

Messrs. Sherman, French & Company:--"The _William P. Frye_" (_New York Times_), by Jeanne Robert Foster, from _Wild Apples_.

Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson:--"We Willed It Not" (_The Sphere_), by John Drinkwater; "Three Hills" (London _Times_), by Everard Owen, from _Three Hills, and Other Poems_; "The Volunteer," and "The Fallen Subaltern," by Lieutenant Herbert Asquith, from _The Volunteer, and Other Poems_.

Messrs. Truslove and Hanson:--"A Mother's Dedication," by Margaret Peterson, from _The Women's Message_.