Valour & vision

22 April – 25 May 1915

Second Battle of Ypres

ELIZABETH BRIDGES

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Battle of the Dogger Bank

Neuve Chapelle
Second Battle of Ypres

Festubert

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTES

. Collected Poems, by Tuomas Harpy. (Macmillan.)
. Days of Destiny, by Col. Lorp Goreti. (Longmans.)
. To the Vanguard, by Bearrix Brice. (Bickers and Sons.)

This poem appeared anonymously in the “‘ In Memoriam”
column of The Times on All Souls’ Day, 1916 (the second
anniversary of the crisis of the first Battle of Ypres). It
has been set as a choral work by Arthur Sullivan, and was
the origin of the First Seven Divisions Commemoration

held in the Albert Hall in December 1917.
St. George’s Day, by Henry Newszotr. (John Murray.)
Poems, by G. K. Cuxsrerron. (Burns and Oates.)
MSS.

MSS.

Whin, by Witrrip Witson Gizson. (Macmillan.)
See No. 91.

Last Poems, by A. E. Housman. (Grant Richards.) Written
for the third anniversary of the Battle of Ypres.

Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton, by Humperr Wotre.
(Blackwell.)

25 September – 16 October 1915

Battle of Loos

FOREWORD

rule me now in deed.’

The years 1915 and 1916 are marked by the advent
of the Soldier Poets. Those were the days of battles that
were almost victories, of plans that nearly succeeded.
Neuve Chapelle, Gallipoli, Loos, the Somme, were all
hailed as the beginning of the end. The end was not yet,
but still hope ran high, and we looked forward to the
great offensive which was to end the war.

But in 1g17 a yet sterner note is struck; by this time
many of the Soldier Poets have sung their last song.
Failure after failure has made itself felt, the romance of
war is gone, and there only remains the daily roll of
missing and killed and the crowded hospitals; the thought

CONTENTS

Back to Rest .

After Loos

A Sonnet’? 2);

VALOUR AND VISION

46
Macleod’s Lament

LLAN Ian Og Macleod of Raasay,
Treasure of mine, lies yonder dead in Loos,
His body unadorned by Highland raiment,
Trammelled for glorious hours, in Saxon trews.
Never man before of all his kindred
Went so apparelled to the burial knowe,
But with the pleated tartan for his shrouding,
The bonnet on his brow.

My grief! that Allan should depart so sadly,
When no wild mountain pipe his bosom wrung,
With no one of his race beside his shoulder,
Who knew his history or spake his tongue.

FOES

48
Back to Rest

(Composed while marching to Rest Camp after severe
fighting at Loos)

LEAPING wind from England,
‘The skies without a stain,

16 April – 9 May 1917

Second Battle of the Aisne

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Length of Days

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This Generation . .
Anthem for Doomed youth,
In the Trenches .
Aeroplanes
Mesopotamia ,
Sir Stanley Maude . .
The Forest of the Dead
In France .
An Irish Aieman foresees ae Death
The Ragged Stone .
ereaanere s- ok
Toa Bulldog .
The Trumpet.
Lights Out
To E, T.: 1917 . :
Meditation in June, 1917 .
Chemin des Dames .
Pierrot at the War ,
Casualty
Attack ; :
From Albert to Bapaume ;
Palestine
The Crusader’: s Tomb.

XV

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gth August

The Retreat—
Mons
Le Cateau
Cambrat
St. Quentin
The Marne
The Aisne

Battle of the Bight

31 July – 10 November 1917

Battle of Passchendaele

VALOUR AND VISION

Péronne
Arras

Vimy Ridge
Messines
Passchendaele
Cambrai

The Italian Campaign

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTES

. Collected Poems, by Tuomas Harpy. (Macmillan.)
. Days of Destiny, by Col. Lorp Goreti. (Longmans.)
. To the Vanguard, by Bearrix Brice. (Bickers and Sons.)

This poem appeared anonymously in the “‘ In Memoriam”
column of The Times on All Souls’ Day, 1916 (the second
anniversary of the crisis of the first Battle of Ypres). It
has been set as a choral work by Arthur Sullivan, and was
the origin of the First Seven Divisions Commemoration

held in the Albert Hall in December 1917.
St. George’s Day, by Henry Newszotr. (John Murray.)
Poems, by G. K. Cuxsrerron. (Burns and Oates.)
MSS.

MSS.

Whin, by Witrrip Witson Gizson. (Macmillan.)
See No. 91.

Last Poems, by A. E. Housman. (Grant Richards.) Written
for the third anniversary of the Battle of Ypres.

Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton, by Humperr Wotre.
(Blackwell.)

27 May – 6 June 1918

Third Battle of the Aisne

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IQI4
gth August

The Retreat—
Mons
Le Cateau
Cambrat
St. Quentin
The Marne
The Aisne

Battle of the Bight

28–31 May 1918

Battle of Cantigny

IQI4

IQI4
gth August

The Retreat—
Mons
Le Cateau
Cambrat
St. Quentin
The Marne
The Aisne

Battle of the Bight