Category: Poetry

The Great War in Verse and Prose

PAGE "For All We Have and Are" Kipling, Rudyard 1 Instructions to the British Soldier Kitchener, Lord 3 Pro Patria Seaman, Sir Owen 4 Statement in House of Lords Kitchener, Lord 5 Between Midnight and Morning Seaman, Sir Owen 7 Vigil, The Newbolt, Sir Henry 7 Hour, The Fagan,...

Chapters

8. Part 8

Courage came to you with your boyhood's grace Of ardent life and limb. Each day new dangers steeled you to the test, To ride, to climb, to swim. Your hot blood taught you carele...

3. Part 3

The Prussian Junker is the road-hog of Europe. Small nationalities in his way are flung to the roadside, bleeding and broken; women and children crushed under the wheel of his c...

7. Part 7

These are proud thoughts; they will some day be proud memories. We are associated together in a struggle never equalled yet in the history of the world, and I rejoice to think t...

2. Part 2

This be our part, for so we serve you best, So best confirm their prowess and their pride, Your warrior sons, to whom in this high test Our fortunes we confide.

4. Part 4

Comes there now a mighty rally From the weald and from the coast, Down from cliff and up from valley, Spirits of an ancient host; Castle gray and village mellow, Coastguard's tr...

6. Part 6

The memory of the victorious resistance of Verdun will be immortal because Verdun saved not only France, but the whole of the great cause which is common to ourselves and humani...

5. Part 5

Against the Dark Destroyer Their loyal legions moved, To stand by our defenders With succour tried and proved. To stay the hosts of horror With neither sword nor shield, To hold...

1. Part 1

PAGE "For All We Have and Are" Kipling, Rudyard 1 Instructions to the British Soldier Kitchener, Lord 3 Pro Patria Seaman, Sir Owen 4 Statement in House of Lords Kitchener, Lord...

9. Part 9

For oh! when the war will be over, We'll go and we'll look for our dead; We'll go when the bee's on the clover, And the plume of the poppy is red; We'll go when the year's at it...