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Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Siegfried Sassoon
• Woman and peace. Who goes there? / Josephine Preston Peabody ; We mothers know / John Drinkwater ; O mothers with little sons / Angela Morgan
• Heroes of peace. Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight (in Springfield, Illinois) / Vachel Lindsay ; Youth / Katherine Lee Bates ; The peaceful warriors / Edgar A Guest ; Lindbergh / Donald Gillies ; Tolstoi is plowing yet / Vachel Lindsay ; Goethals / Percy Mackaye
• "Work for a poet". Beyond the war / Olive Tilford Dargan
• The war to end war. The boy in armor / Hermann Hagedorn ; In Flanders / James Norman Hall ; He went for a soldier / Ruth Comfort Mitchell ; Remember again / R.W. Stewart ; God's challengers / Marion Perham Gale ; The valley of the shadow / John Galsworthy ; A carol from Flanders / Frederick Niven ; Five souls / W.N. Ewer.
• "Seek peace and pursue it". Let us have peace / Nancy Byrd Turner ; Peace shall live / Max Ehrmann ; To one who denies the possibility of a permanent peace / Margaret Sackville ; Restoration / Amelia Josephine Burr ; When there is peace / Austin Dobson ; The new loyalty / Thomas Curtis Clark ; To the flag / Bertha Stephenson ; The world is one / Hinton White ; The word of the wind / Louise Driscoll ; At Carcassonne / Winfred Ernest Garrison ; The unconquered hope / Gilbert Thomas ; War / Dana C. Burnet ; The flag of peace / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; Where is the real non-resistant? / Vachel Lindsay ; A song of peace / Edwin Markham ; The ideal city / Washington Gladden ; To my countrymen / Robert Underwood Johnson ; The dawn of peace / Alfred Noyes ; 1914
• and after / James Oppenheim ; A hymn for the pact of peace / Robert Underwood Johnson ; The Raleigh tavern / Alfred Noyes.
• Prayers for peace. A prayer for the spiritual union of mankind / Harry Emerson Fosdick ; A prayer for all peoples / Anonymous from a book of prayers for use in an Indian College
• The prince of peace. Our share / John Oxenham ; Peace enthroned / Arthur Smith Hollis ; If war is right / Alice Corbin ; The Christ of the Andes / Edwin Markham ; Above the battle's front / Vachel Lindsay ; "Not to destroy but to fulfil" / Molly Anderson Haley ; O young and fearless prophet / S. Ralph Harlow ; On Syrian hills / Richard Burton ; The King's highway / Laura Scherer Copenhaver.

Contributors:

Roussel, Anna Whittaker , compiler

Thomas, Donald, 1943- , former owner

John C. Winston Company , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Donald Thomas War Poetry Collection

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Peace — Poetry

Peace

Genres:

Printed books — United States — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — 20th century

Poetry

General Notes:

Copyright dated 1930 on t.p. verso.
Gift: Donald Thomas, 2015
ex. coll. Donald Thomas.
Bound in green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped titles.
Minimal scuffing to corners.
Donald Thomas's signature on front free endleaf.

Physical Description:

xviii, pages, 1 leaf, 88 pages : frontispiece ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

PR1195.P5 R6 1930

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

30032640

OCLC Numbers:

1495909