October, and Other Poems; with Occasional Verses on the War
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. OCTOBER.4. THE FLOWERING TREE.5. NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913. Pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis.6. IN DER FREMDE.7. THE PHILOSOPHER AND HIS MISTRESS.8. NARCISSUS.9. OUR LADY.10. THE CURFEW TOWER.11. FLYCATCHERS.12. GHOSTS.13. Έτώσιον ἄχθος ἀρούρης14. HELL AND HATE.15. “WAKE UP, ENGLAND!”[A]16. LORD KITCHENER.17. ODE ON THE TERCENTENARY COMMEMORATION OF SHAKESPEARE, 1916.18. THE CHIVALRY OF THE SEA. DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES FISHER, LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, LOST IN THE “INVINCIBLE.”19. FOR “PAGES INÉDITES,” Etc. April, 1916.20. GHELUVELT. EPITAPH ON THE WORCESTERS. OCTOBER 31, 1914.21. THE WEST FRONT. AN ENGLISH MOTHER, ON LOOKING INTO MASEFIELD’S “OLD FRONT LINE.”22. TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA April, 1917.23. TRAFALGAR SQUARE September, 1917.24. CHRISTMAS EVE, 191725. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA August, 1918.26. OUR PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY October, 1918.27. HARVEST-HOME VERSES TO THE AMERICANS ON THEIR THANKSGIVING DAY, CELEBRATED IN ENGLAND NOVEMBER 28, 1918.28. TO AUSTRALIA WITH THE WOUNDED AND THE SURVIVORS OF 1914 RETURNING HOME IN AUTUMN, 1918.29. THE EXCELLENT WAY30. ENGLAND TO INDIA Christmas, 1918.31. BRITANNIA VICTRIX32. DER TAG: NELSON AND BEATTY A BROADSHEET.33. “TO BURNS” TOAST FOR THE GREENOCK CLUB DINNER, JANUARY, 1914.34. POOR CHILD35. TO PERCY BUCK36. TO HARRY ELLIS WOOLDRIDGE37. FORTUNATUS NIMIUM38. DEMOCRITUS39. NOTES