Battle-Retrospect, and Other Poems

by Amos Niven Wilder

Battle-Retrospect

And Other Poems

AMOS NIVEN WILDER

 

 

"Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made."

Walt Whitman.

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

MDCCCCXXIII

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

1. CONTENTS.

2. Battle-Retrospect (Champagne. May, 1917) ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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3. Ode in a German Cemetery ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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4. The Vision of the Russian Famine ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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5. Unsung ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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6. Anti-climax ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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7. To the War Realists ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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8. Interlude ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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9. To the American Legion ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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10. To G. B. and Others; Died in Action ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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11. The Enviable Dead ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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12. The Wise Dead ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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13. To the Fallen (November) ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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14. The Dead to Wilson ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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15. Buried Abroad ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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16. "Boanerges" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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17. Belleau. June 1, 1918 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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18. November 11, 1918 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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19. Yale. June, 1920 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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20. Connecticut Hall ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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21. The Invisible Suffrage. November 2, 1920 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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22. To the True France ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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23. America to Belgium ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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24. Forêt de Soignes (Brussels) ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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25. Romanesque ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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26. Bruges. 1921 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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27. Bruges. New Year's ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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28. Bruges. The Dying Past ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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29. Earth's Messiahs ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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30. "In Him We Live" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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31. The Gradual Apocalypse ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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32. Lines by Arno ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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