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War and its Cost
War and its Cost
Jul 24, 2026
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Disillusionment · First World War · Italy
Grief and Loss · Elegy · Clothing and Costume
Heroism · Hero · Last Stand
Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Nationalism and Patriotism · Democracy · Liberty / Political Freedom
Order vs Chaos · Historical Novel · Fanaticism
Poet as Prophet · Prophet · Romantic Movement (Sensibility)
Self-Sacrifice · Life as a Battle
Swords and Weapons · Power and Corruption · Tyrant
War and its Cost · American Civil War · Battlefield
Wars of the Roses
179 8 FIRE, FAMINE, AND SLAUGHTER
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase
A Glimpse of the Army
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
A Note on War Poetry
A Tale of Two Cities
A Twilight Song
A Visit to Three Fronts, June 1916
A WISH
ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE
Adieu to a Soldier
Alarms and Discursions
All I Survey
Alliterativism (1914)
An Army Corps on the March
Anti-Religious Thought In The Eighteenth Century
APOLOGETIC PREFACE TO ‘FIRE, FAMINE, AND SLAUGHTER’
ARGUMENT
As I Ponder’d in Silence
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
Ashes of Soldiers
Ballad of St Barbara
BalladStBarbara
Barnaby Rudge
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
By Blue Ontario’s Shore
Camps of Green
Christianity and Rationalism
City of Ships
Come Up from the Fields Father
Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
Coriolan
CORIOLANUS
Danger! and Other Stories
Danton: A Study
Death of General Grant
Defence of the Islands
Delicate Cluster
Dirge for Two Veterans
Drum-Taps
DURA NAVIS
EDWARD III
Eighteen Sixty-One
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
FAMINE.
FANCIES AT NAVESINK
FEARS IN SOLITUDE
First O Songs for a Prelude
For a War Memorial
France (the 18th Year of these States
FROM AN OLD GERMAN POET
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Autobiography
Great Britain and the Next War
HENRY V
HENRY VI PART ONE
HEXAMETERS: PARAPHRASE OF PSALM XLVI
Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day (May 4, 1865
I Saw Old General at Bay
Illustrated London News, April 19, 1930
Interpolation Sounds
Introduction to John Bunyan's 'THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS',
Irish Impressions
King Stephen
KOSKIUSKO
The Last Hero
Lepanto
LITERAL TRANSLATION.
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Long, Too Long America
Look Down Fair Moon
Lord Kitchener
The Meaning of the Crusade
The Methuselahite
Negative and Positive Morality
MOTTO FOR A TRANSPARENCY
My Legacy
NAPOLEON
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The New Jerusalem
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
O Star of France (1870-71)
OCCASIONAL VERSES
ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR
ODE TO TRANQUILLITY
Old War-Dreams
On America
ORIGINAL POETRY.
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
Poems
Race of Veterans
Reconciliation
RELIGIOUS MUSINGS
RICHARD DUKE OF YORK - (3 HENRY VI)
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
SAMUEL DANIEL
The Secret People
George Bernard Shaw
Shut Not Your Doors
Six British Battles
Small the Theme of My Chant
Song of Myself
Song of the Banner at Daybreak
Song of the Broad-Axe
Song of the Exposition
Songs of Action
Spirit Whose Work Is Done (Washington City, 1865)
STOLBERG
Thanks in Old Age
The Adventures of Gerard
The Artilleryman’s Vision
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Battle of Life
The British Campaign in France and Flanders (Volumes I-VI)
THE BRITISH STRIPLING’S WAR-SONG IMITATED FROM STOLBERG
The Centenarian’s Story
THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN
THE DESTINY OF NATIONS: A VISION
The Dying Veteran
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE
THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION - (2 HENRY VI)
The French Revolution
The Girondin
The Glass Walking Stick
The Great Boer War
The Great Shadow
The Guards Came Through and Other Poems
The Last Galley
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
The Man That Was Used Up
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Mystic Trumpeter
THE OLD MAN OF THE ALPS
THE PICCOLOMINI
The Return of the Heroes
The Two Maps of Europe
The Uses of Diversity
The Wallabout Martyrs
The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct
The White Company
The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion
The Wound-Dresser
The Appetite of Tyranny
The Crimes of England
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
Thoughts
THOUSAND HUMAN BEINGS, MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD,
TITUS ANDRONICUS
To a Certain Civilian
TO A YOUNG LADY WITH A POEM ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
To the Indians who Died in Africa
To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
To Thee Old Cause
To Hilaire Belloc
Leo Tolstoy
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
True Conquerors
Turn O Libertad
United States
TO the UNKNOWN WARRIOR
VIII O Father we welcome your words
Virginia--The West
Weave in, My Hardy Life
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
While Not the Past Forgetting
WhoGoesHome
Wild Ducks
Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me