International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices

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Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this new anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to World War I. Bringing together poems by soldiers and non-combatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict across the world, International Poetry of the First World War reveals the crucial public role that poetry played in shaping responses to and the legacies of the conflict. Life on the Front Psychological trauma Noncombatants and the Home Front Rationalising the War Remembering the dead Peace and the aftermath of the War With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems from: America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Russia. Cover Half title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Soldiers' Lives Fragment The Transport The Night Patrol In No Man's Land On Patrol in No Man's Land War Song (Chanson de Guerre) Dance of Death 1916 (Totentanz 1916) Trench Poets Vigil (Veglia) The Moles The Song of the Mud Still Raining... (Il pleut encore...) The Boys Who Live in the Ground A Digger's Disillusion During the Bombardment Cricket: The Catch The Rainbow The Star-Shell Back to Rest After the "Offensive" Beaucourt Revisited Relieved Picnic: Harbonnières to Bayonvillers The Bathe Going In A Song of the Air To a Taube The Hill Ammunition Column Unloading Ambulance Train Gramophone Tunes Quinze Vingt Little Song of the Maimed (Petite Chanson des Mutilés) 2 Minds at War Standing To (In Bereitschaft) Night Watch Nothing Much (Peu de chose) The Face III.—Fear Fever (La Fièvre) Prayer before Battle (Gebet vor der Schlacht) Retreat There is a healing magic in the night Bivouacs Going Over Home On the Plains of Picardy Picardy Parodies No. 2 (W.B. Y--ts) A Lament Selections from "Rhymes from a New Nursery" and "Alphabet of Limericks" Pershing at the Front Left Behind A Kiss Albade To C.H.V. The Raindrops on Your Old Tin Hat Camouflage Picnic September. 1918 Home Is Where the Pie Is The Soldier Mood 3 Noncombatants The Leaf Burners Burning Beehives (Les ruches brûlées) Going to the Front Hymn of Hate (Hassgesang gegen England) New Year's Wishes to the German Army Regiments (Régiments) Penelope Visé Homes After the Retreat A Memory May, 1915 Any Englishwoman ‘I know the truth! Renounce all others!' In Hospital Somme Film, 1916 The Ballad of Bethlehem Steel The Farmer, 1917 Spreading Manure I Sit and Sew To the Patriotic Lady across the Way Portrait of a Mother The Mourners When Will the War Be By? War Time Gone to the War Sic Transit— France 4 Making Sense of War I Saw a Man This Morning A Meditation upon the Return of the Greeks A Litany in the Desert He Went for a Soldier War War (Rhyfel) The Falling Leaves Eastern Front (Im Osten) The Camp Follower The Other Side A Letter from the Front Singing "Tipperary" O Little David, Play on Your Harp To the Memory of Some I Knew Who Are Dead and Who Loved Ireland America at War Violets—April 1915 High Barbary Epiphany Vision At Bethlehem—1915 Veni, Sancte Spiritus! (Deit, Spered Santel!) Solomon in All His Glory To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God ‘Since they have Died' The Gift of India In the Ypres Sector 5 Remembering the Dead Let Us Tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes Féri Bekassy Telling the Bees In Memoriam At the Front (An der Front) To L.H.B. (1894–1915) To John Soldier-Poet Victory The Son Out in a Gale of Fallen Leaves XX. Jo's Requiem Anzac Cove To One Dead 1914 Red Cross Only a Boche Glad That I Killed Yer Hallow-e'en, 1915 His Latch-Key To the Dead Perhaps— New Year, 1916 Reported Missing.... An Epilogue Elegy on the Death of Bingo, Our Trench Dog 6 Aftermath November Eleventh Paris, November 11, 1918 Remembrance Day Victory, whose calm gaze... (Victoire aux calmes yeux...) To the Survivors The Extra Recall-Up (Rappel) Saturdays The Mascot Speaks The Heart of the World The Dead (Les Morts...) Reconciliation Everything's looted, betrayed and traded The Other Possibility (Die andere Möglichkeit) High Wood Envoie Primary Sources Further Reading Index of Poets, Translators, and Poems Index of Poem Titles and First Lines