GREAT POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR
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Contents
Index of First Lines
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BETWEEN the hedges of the centuries
A thousand phantom armies go and come,
While Reason whispers as each marches past,
“This is the last of wars—this is the last!”
—Lieut. Gilbert Waterhouse.
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GREAT POEMS OF
THE WORLD WAR
Edited, With Introduction, Notes and
Original Matter, By
W. D. EATON





CHICAGO
T. S. DENISON & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
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COPYRIGHT, 1918
By
EBEN H. NORRIS
under title
“The War in Verse and Prose”

Copyright, 1922, by T. S. Denison & Company

“Great Poems of the World War”
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PREFACE
ON a fateful day in 1914, without a warning flash or tremor, there fellupon the world such a blast of war as human reason could not haveforeglimpsed, nor Apocalyptic vision raised, to appall the souls of men.Twenty-seven nations took the shock and were rocked to theirfoundations. Eleven were caught and knotted in the maddest agony ofconflict that ever was known. Through four years the winds ofdestruction swirled and roared around the monstrous welter, before theevil forces failed and their exhaustion brought a breathing space suchas lies at the heart of a typhoon. Around the widening edges of thatspace they still muttered for a while in gusts of blood and fire, slowlyreceding, slowly dying. But the great storm is gone; the long night thatseemed the night of doom is over.
Its epic has not been written. The time is too near us, the motive toodeep, the theme too vast. But out of the dark came many voices, voicesof lamentation, of home and love and hope and heroism and loftiestideality, of romance, of strange comedy. These had their inspirationfrom a gigantic spectacle of elemental passions in cross-play, from thethoughts and emotions not of a single people, but of all that werefighting for the life and light of civilization. Poets great and poetsminor followed{6} the war or fought in it, and expressed its spirit with apersonal, passionate fidelity impossible to historians.
It would not be well were all these voices lost. Many are worth fixationwhere they may be heard again at will, and that is the reason for andpurpos                        
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