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1914

The Dawn

The Crime of Wittenberg

 

 

1915

 

The Premier’s Speech. To Labour Delegates, Jan 15, 1915

Commander Edward Unwin R.N. V.C. H.M. River Clyde. – The Dardanelles, April 25. 1915

The Rajput’s Desire

To Flight Sub-Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford. V.C. June 7th, 1915

In Memory of Flight Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford V.C. Legion of Honour

Homeward Bound. In Memory of Nowell Oxland, the writer of the Poem “Outward Bound”, who fell at Suvla Bay, Aug 9, 1915

Our Angel-Host of Help. In Memory of Raymond Lodge, fell in Flanders, Sept. 14th, 1915

How Piper Laidlaw Won the Victoria Cross. Loos, September, 1915

Edith Cavell. Oct. 13th, 1915

 

1916

Gallipoli Farewell!

At a Sailor’s Grave

Before Verdun

William Shakespeare

To a Mother Twice Bereaved on Hearing of the Death of her Son Lieutenant Harvey Hodgson

A Soldier’s Death in May

The Garden Warbler

The Patriot Thrush

In Memory of John Travers Cornwell. First class boy of H.M.S. ‘Chester’

To the Memory of Our Gallant Seamen Who Perished in the Battle of Horn Reef

Lord Kitchener. In Memoriam

Lord Kitchener

Our Lady of Pity

The Hero-Corporal of Ontario

To the Mother of Four Sons Gone to the War

 

1917

Capt. F. C. Selous D.S.O.

In Memory of President Wilson’s Speech in Congress. Feb. 3rd, 1917

Lieutenant Colin MacLehose

In Memoriam. Robert Ernest Vernede – Rifle Brigade

The Cuckoo

In Honour of H.M.S. Swift and Broke

To Viscount Bryce

To the Memory of Lance-Corporal Dalzell for Many Years Winner of the Grasmere Guides’ Race

The Speech of General Smuts

The Battle of Messines Ridge

Near Lens

The Carrier Pigeon

At the Church of St. George, Shellal Mound

At Mizpeh

In Honour of Dr. Elsie Inglis

In Honour of Jemadar Lieutenant Sing V. C.

The Fall of Jerusalem

Alma Mater Medicatrix

 

1918

The Ballad of the Violet May

Pheidippides at the Front

Friday, March 22nd, 1918

The “Vindictive’s” Grave

Major McCudden. V.C. DSO, MC. MM.

General Foch

At Baslieux

The Deliverance of Damascus

The Deliverance of Lille

In Memory of Rev. T. B. Hardy VC. DSO., MC., Chaplain to the King

The Armistice

King Albert’s Return

Peace Upon Earth

 

1919

New Year’s Day 1919

The Home-Coming of Nurse Cavell

Peace

At General Botha’s Grave

 

Undated Poems

Race Meetings & the War

The Munition Workers

The Blind Soldier’s Return

A Song of Peace

A Thought of Home in the Trenches

A Welcome to Jack on Leave

Maytide’s Memorial

Memorial Hymn

Sorrow in May

All For Each and Each For All

The Voyage of Life

German Hate

To the Good Ship “Jason”

General Joffre’s Farewell

‘We have sworn war shall not cease’

The Voice of the Striker