PREFACE
CONTENTS
OCTOBER.
THE FLOWERING TREE.
NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913. Pax hominibus bonAE voluntatis.
IN DER FREMDE.
THE PHILOSOPHER AND HIS MISTRESS.
NARCISSUS.
OUR LADY. I. Goddess azure-mantled and aureoled That standing
THE CURFEW TOWER.
FLYCATCHERS.
GHOSTS.
HELL AND HATE.
"WAKE UP, ENGLAND!" [A]
LORD KITCHENER.
ODE ON THE TERCENTENARY COMMEMORATION OF SHAKESPEARE, 1916.
THE CHIVALRY OF THE SEA. DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES
FOR "PAGES INEDITES," E tc. April, 1916.
GHELUVELT. EPITAPH ON THE WORCESTERS. OCTOBER 31, 1914.
THE WEST FRONT. AN ENGLISH MOTHER, ON LOOKING INTO MASEFIELD'S "OLD FRONT LINE."
TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA April, 1917.
TRAFALGAR SQUARE September, 1917.
CHRISTMAS EVE, 1917
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA August, 1918.
OUR PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY October, 1918.
HARVEST-HOME VERSES TO THE AMERICANS ON THEIR THANKSGIVING DAY, CELEBRATED IN ENGLAND NOVEMBER 28, 1918.
TO AUSTRALIA WITH THE WOUNDED AND THE SURVIVORS OF 1914 RETURNING HOME IN AUTUMN, 1918.
THE EXCELLENT WAY
ENGLAND TO INDIA Christmas, 1918.
BRITANNIA VICTRIX
DER TAG: NELSON AND BEATTY A BROADSHEET. 1 No doubt 'twas a
"TO BURNS" TOAST FOR THE GREENOCK CLUB DINNER, JANUARY, 1914.
POOR CHILD
TO PERCY BUCK
TO HARRY ELLIS WOOLDRIDGE
FORTUNATUS NIMIUM
DEMOCRITUS
NOTES
OCTOBER
AND OTHER POEMS
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O C T O B E R
AND OTHER POEMS
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ROBERT BRIDGES
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GENERAL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS
Prime Minister of the Union
of South Africa
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