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3726453Battle-Retrospect, and Other Poems1923Amos 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

CONTENTS.

Battle-Retrospect (Champagne. May, 1917)

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7

Ode in a German Cemetery

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11

The Vision of the Russian Famine

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16

Unsung

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27

Anti-climax

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28

To the War Realists

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30

Interlude

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31

To the American Legion

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32

To G. B. and Others; Died in Action

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33

The Enviable Dead

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36

The Wise Dead

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To the Fallen (November)

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The Dead to Wilson

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Buried Abroad

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40

"Boanerges"

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Belleau. June 1, 1918

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November 11, 1918

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Yale. June, 1920

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Connecticut Hall

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The Invisible Suffrage. November 2, 1920

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To the True France

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America to Belgium

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48

Forêt de Soignes (Brussels)

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49

Romanesque

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50

Bruges. 1921

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51

Bruges. New Year's

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Bruges. The Dying Past

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Earth's Messiahs

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"In Him We Live"

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The Gradual Apocalypse

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Lines by Arno

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