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# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/After Jutland

AFTER JUTLAND
THE City of God is late become a seaport town For the clean and bronzed sailors walking up and down And the bearded Commanders, the Captains so brave, Bringing there the taste of the sea from the salt sea wave.
There are boys in the City's streets make holiday And all around are playing-fields and the boys at play; They dive in clear waters, climb many a high tree, They look out as they used to do for a ship at sea.
​The sailor keeps a clean soul on the seas untrod; There is room in the great spaces for the Vision of God Walking on the waters, bidding him not fear; He has the very cleanest eyes a man can wear.
There's salt wind in Heaven and the salt sea-spray, And the little midshipmen boys are shouting at their play. There's a soft sound of waters lapping on the shore, The sailor he is home from sea to go back no more.
Katharine Tynan
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Apocalypse

APOCALYPSE
THE visions of the soul, more strange than dreams, Out-mystery sleep. For them, no day redeems, And the thing is, but is not as it seems.
I thought I saw (although I did not sleep) A Raft that clomb the surges black and steep With One who cursed the dumb God-blinded Deep.
​Red as the eye of anger the Sun set; And giant Thunders round him black as jet, Gazed down into those black Deeps they beset;
And under them and mirroring them, a scud Of glassy mountains moved athwart the flood, Laced by that last gleam with a foam of blood. * Then he who lived upon that desperate craft, Crown'd and a King, stood forth and kinglike quaff'd Red wine, and raised his voice aloud, and laugh'd:
"Roll on and rot for all thy corpses, Sea, That with thy moonsuck'd surges wouldest be Lord of the halcyon Earth, thine enemy—
With altercations of great waves and air, And sobs and cries of anger, wouldest tear Piecemeal her patient fields and all things there.
Ungovernable god, thee I defy, Weak man. Canst thou for all thy rage reply?" . . . Then from beneath there came the answer, Aye. * He heard, but deem'd his thought replied to thought And cried again aloud (the red ray caught His crown of gold with flaming rubies wrought):
"Improvident, furious, idle, hot to hate Laborious Earth—her unlaborious mate, Strong but in anger, in destruction great:
Her fields and floods, where flow'rs are grown and glass'd; Thine, where thy mad waves run like things outcast, And scarce the staggering petrel braves the blast,
​And no flowers blow but capering crests of spray: Confess thyself a god who can but slay." . . . But from the deeps the deep Voice answer'd, Nay. * Half startled, still in reverie unaware, He cried again as one who mocks despair; And still the surges roll'd and rock'd him there;
"Then rumble in all thy depths, Leviathan, And learn my scorn—thy master and a man. So answer me if thou art more and can." . . .
There came a thrill, a spasm, as when the blow Of earthquake runs before the crash, and lo The dreadful Voice cried Silence from below. * He heard, he rose, he laugh'd as if in jest, And drank red wine. (The red ray came to rest Within the blood-red ruby on his breast):
"Art thou then there, down there, O damnèd dumb Bold braggard, born to threaten yet succumb— For ever overcoming e'er o'ercome?
What though thou roarest, still I will not bow To thee, all-mighty, my God-gifted brow; A mortal; yet, immortal, more than thou." * So said. Night fell. But from the deep below A giant Hand emerged, enormous, slow: And drew him down. And the Voice answer'd, So.
Ronald Ross
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Australasia

AUSTRALASIA
AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND
BY all the deeds to Thy dear glory done, By all the life blood spilt to serve Thy need, By all the fettered lives Thy touch hath freed By all Thy dream in us anew begun; By all the guerdon English sire to son Hath given of highest vision, kingliest deed, By all Thine agony, of God decreed For trial and strength, our fate with Thine is one.
Still dwells Thy spirit in our hearts and lips, Honour and life we hold from none but Thee, And if we live Thy pensioners no more But seek a nation's might of men and ships, 'Tis but that when the world is black with war Thy sons may stand beside Thee strong and free.
Archibald T. Strong
FAREWELL TO ANZAC
OH, hump your swag and leave, lads, the ships are in the bay; We've got our marching orders now, it's time to come away; And a long good-bye to Anzac beach where blood has flowed in vain, For we're leaving it, leaving it—game to fight again!
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Ammunition Column

AMMUNITION COLUMN
I AM only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless chain: And the rounds are drawn, and the rounds are fired, and the empties return again; Railroad, lorry, and limber; battery, column, and park; To the shelf where the set fuse waits the breech, from the quay where the shells embark. We have watered and fed, and eaten our beef; the long dull day drags by. As I sit here watching our "Archibalds" strafing an empty sky; Puff and flash on the far-off blue round the speck one guesses the plane— Smoke and spark of the gun-machine that is fed by the endless chain.
I am only a cog in a giant machine, a little link in the chain, Waiting a word from the wagon-lines that the guns are hungry again:— Column-wagon to battery-wagon, and battery-wagon to gun; To the loader kneeling 'twixt trail and wheel from the shops where the steam-lathes run. There's a lone mule braying against the line where the mud cakes fetlock-deep! There's a lone soul humming a hint of a song in the barn where the drivers sleep; And I hear the pash of the orderly's horse as he canters him down the lane— Another cog in the gun-machine, a link in the selfsame chain.
​I am only a cog in a giant machine, but a vital link in the chain; And the Captain has sent from the wagon-line to fill his wagons again;— From wagon-limber to gunpit dump; from loader's forearm at breech, To the working-party that melts away when the shrapnel bullets screech.— So the restless section pulls out once more in column of route from the right, At the tail of a blood-red afternoon; so the flux of another night Bears back the wagons we fill at dawn to the sleeping column again . . . Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chain!
Gilbert Frankau
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/At Parting

AT PARTING
IT was sad weather when you went away, Wind, and the rain was raining every day. And all night long I heard in lonesome sleep The water running under the bows of the ship, All the dark night and till the dawning grey.
At Salonika it is golden weather. Go light of heart, O child, light as a feather, Valiant and full of laughter, free as air. God is at Salonika—here and there God and my heart are keeping watch together.
But O when you come back, though skies should weep, The water running under the bows of the ship Shall in my dreams make music exquisite And my all happy sleep be drenched with it, And you coming home, home through the hours of sleep.
Katharine Tynan
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Mullinger, James Bass

See also James Bass Mullinger on Wikipedia.
​Mullinger, James Bass (1834).—Historian. Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century (1867), The Ancient African Church (1869), The New Reformation (1875), The Schools of Charles the Great (1876), The University of Cambridge from the Earliest Times to the Accession of Charles I., Introduction to English History (with S. R. Gardiner), History of St. John's College, Cambridge (1901), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Munro, Neil

See also Neil Munro (writer) on Wikipedia.
​Munro, Neil (1864).—Novelist, etc. The Lost Pibroch (1896), John Splendid (1898), Gillian the Dreamer (1899), Doom Castle (1901), The Shoes of Fortune (1901), Children of the Tempest (1903), The Daft Days (1907), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Morley, John, 1st Lord Morley of Blackburn, P.C., O.M., F.R.S., etc.

See also John Morley on Wikipedia.
​Morley, John, 1st Lord Morley of Blackburn, P.C., O.M., F.R.S., etc. (1838).—Biographer and essayist. Edmund Burke (1867), Critical Miscellanies (1871-77) (two series), Voltaire (1871), Rousseau (1873), On Compromise (1874), Diderot and the Encyclopedists (1878), Studies in Literature (1891), Oliver Cromwell (1900), Life of Gladstone (1903), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Morrison, Arthur

See also Arthur Morrison on Wikipedia.
​Morrison, Arthur (1863).—Novelist. Tales of Mean Streets (1894), Martin Hewitt (1894), A Child of the Jago (1896), The Hole in the Wall (1902), Green Ginger (1909), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa (Stewart)

See also Mary Louisa Molesworth on Wikipedia.
​Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa (Stewart) (1839).—Novelist and writer for children. Carrots, Cuckoo Clock, Herr Baby, The Boys, etc.; novels: Hathercourt Rectory, The Laurel Walk, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, F.R.S., LL.D., etc.

See also Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet on Wikipedia.
​Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, F.R.S., LL.D., etc. (1845).—Novelist, essayist, etc. Novels: Sir Lucian Elphin (1889), The Letter of the Law (1890), A Duke of Britain (1895), Chevalier of the Splendid Crest (1905), etc.; other writings: Meridiana, Noontide Essays (1892), Scottish Land Names (1894), Afternoon Essays (1895), Rainy Days in a Library (1896), Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence, Memories of the Months (4 series), Story of the Tweed (1905), Lives of W. H. Smith, Wellington, Romney, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Meynell, Mrs. Alice (Thompson)

See also Alice Meynell on Wikipedia.
​Meynell, Mrs. Alice (Thompson).—Poet and essayist. Preludes, The Rhythm of Life (1893), The Colour of Life (1896), The Flower of the Mind, Anthology of English Poetry (ed.), The Spirit of Place (1898), Later Poems (1901), a book on Ruskin, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Mitford, Bertram

See also Bertram Mitford (novelist) on Wikipedia.
​Mitford, Bertram.—Novelist. Romance of the Cape Frontier, Wind of Deadly Hollow, A Veldt Official, Ruby Sword, A Veldt Vendetta, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Moore, Frank Frankfort

See also Frank Frankfort Moore on Wikipedia.
​Moore, Frank Frankfort (1855).—Novelist and dramatist. Dawn (verse), Told by the Sea, I forbid the Banns (1893), The Jessamy Bride (1897), A Damsel or Two (1902), The King's Messenger (1907), etc.; plays: A March Hare, The Queen's Room, Kitty Clive, The Food of Love (1909), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Moore, George

See also George Moore (novelist) on Wikipedia.
​Moore, George (1857).—Novelist, playwright, and art critic. Flowers of Passion (verse) (1877), A Mummer's Wife (1884), Literature at Nurse (1885), Vain Fortune (1890), Ideals in Ireland (1891), Modern Painting (1893), Evelyn Innes, Esther Waters (1894), The Bending of the Bough (play), etc.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Castro, John de

From volume 1 of the work.
​Castro, John de, friar from Bologna; B.D. 10 Dec., 1514.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Cobb, Sir Thomas

From volume 1 of the work.
​Cobb, Sir Thomas, of Adderbury, Oxon, bart.; created M.A. 28 Sept., 1663 (son of Sir William, of Adderbury, knight), created a baronet 9 Dec., 1662, baptized at Adderbury 28 Aug., 1627, died in Feb., 1699, brother of Arthur and Francis and William 1638, and father of Edward 1693, and John 1697.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Cobb, (Sir) William

From volume 1 of the work.
​Cobb, (Sir) William, of London. Balliol Coll., matric. 3 June, 1608, aged 17 (as arm.) ; of Adderbury, Oxon, created M.A. 12 April, 1648, one of the parliamentary visitors of the University, admitted to the Middle Temple 1610 (as son and heir of William, of Lincoln's Inn, deceased), knighted 15 June, 1624, buried at Adderbury 16 March. 1658, father of Francis 1651, Thomas 1663, Arthur 1665, and William next named. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Cobbe, Richard (5)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Cobbe, Richard, s. John, of Bristol (city), gent. Oriel Coll., matric. 4 Dec., 1705. aged 17; B.A. 1709, M.A. 1712, chaplain to the English factory in the East Indies, and built there a church at his own expense. See Rawlinson, i. fo., p. 23.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Castorllus, John

From volume 1 of the work.
​Castorllus, John, of Geneva, pleb. Magdalen Hall, matric.-entry under date 22 Dec., 1576, aged 22.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Cobbes, William

From volume 1 of the work.
​Cobbes, William, of Kent, gent. Oriel Coll., matric. 2 June, 1592, aged 16; of Gray's Inn 1594, as son of Thomas, of Chilham, Kent, gent. See Foster's Grays Inn Reg.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Cobbett, Lieut.-colonel Ralph

From volume 1 of the work.
​Cobbett, Lieut.-colonel Ralph ; ordered 19 May, 1649, that he be created M.A. when he pleased to come to Oxford, took King Charles prisoner from Newport to Hurst Castle. See Fasti, ii. 141.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Caswell, John

From volume 1 of the work.
​Caswell, John, s. Clement, of Crewkherne, Somerset, p.p. Wadham Coll., matric. 31 March, 1671, aged 16; servitor 1670-8, B.A. 1674, M.A. 1677, vice-principal of Hart Hall and esquire bedell of divinity, Savilian professor of astronomy 1709, until his death 28 April, 1712, buried in Holywell Church, See O.H.S., iii. 114; Ath., iv. 737; Hearne, i. 206. 302; Gardiner, 290; & Rawlinson, ii. 118.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Cobb, Samuel

From volume 1 of the work.
​Cobb, Samuel, M.A. Cambridge; incorp. 14 July, 1618.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Cobb, William

From volume 1 of the work.
​Cobb, William, 1s. William, of Adderbury, Oxon, equitis. Gloucester Hall, matric. 23 Nov., 1638, aged 15; baptized at Adderbury 17 Nov., 1622, buried 10 April, 1639, brother of Arthur, Francis, and Thomas.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Howe, John

​Howe, John (1630-1705).—Puritan divine, b. at Loughborough, of which his f. was curate, studied at Camb., and became, in 1652, minister of Great Torrington, Devonshire, where he was famous for the unusual length of his sermons and prayers. In 1657 Oliver Cromwell made him his resident chaplain at Whitehall, a position which he retained under Richard C., so long as the latter held the office of Protector. On the Restoration H. returned to Great Torrington, from which, however, he was ejected in 1662. Thereafter he wandered from place to place, preaching in secret until 1671, when he went to Ireland as chaplain to Lord Massareene, and in 1675 he became minister of a dissenting congregation in London. In 1685 he travelled with Lord Wharton on the Continent, but returned in 1687 to London, where he d. in 1705. H. was the author of many excellent works of practical divinity, among which are The Living Temple, Inquiry into the Doctrine of the Trinity, and The Divine Presence. The substance of his writings is better than their style, which is involved and extremely diffuse, and evinces much vigour of mind. H. is described as of a fine presence and dignified manners.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Howitt, William

​Howitt, William (1792-1879), Howitt, Mary (Botham) (1799-1888).—Miscellaneous writers. William H. was b. at Heanor, Derbyshire, and was apprenticed to a builder; Mary was b. at Coleford, Gloucestershire; they m. in 1821, and settled at Hanley, where they carried on business as chemists. Two years later they re​moved to Nottingham, where they remained for 12 years, and where much of their literary work was accomplished. Thereafter they lived successively at Esher, London, Heidelberg, and Rome, at the last of which they both d. Their literary work, which was very voluminous, was done partly in conjunction, partly independently, and covered a considerable variety of subjects—poetry, fiction, history, translations, and social and economical subjects. Useful and pleasing in its day, little of it is likely to survive. William's works include A History of Priestcraft (1833), Rural Life in England (1837), Visits to Remarkable Places, Homes and Haunts of the Poets, Land, Labour, and Gold (1855), Rural Life in Germany, History of the Supernatural, and History of Discovery in Australia. Mary translated the Swedish novels of Frederica Bremer, H.C. Andersen's Improvisatore, and wrote novels, including Wood Leighton and The Cost of Caergwyn, many successful tales and poems for children, and a History of the United States. Their joint productions include The Forest Minstrel, Book of the Seasons, and Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain. Both brought up as Quakers, they left that communion in 1847, and became believers in spiritualism; and in 1882 Mary joined the Church of Rome.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Huchown, or Sir Hugh of Eglinton

​Huchown, or Sir Hugh of Eglinton (fl. 14th cent.).—Unless identified with Sir Hugh, Huchown is shrouded in mystery. He was a writer of alliterative verse, referred to by Andrew of Wyntoun. If he be identified with Sir Hugh, he was an Ayrshire nobleman related to Robert II., b.c. 1300-20, Chamberlain of Cunningham, Justiciar of Lothian, and Commissioner for the Borders. He also held office under David II. In that case also he is believed by some scholars to have translated the poems bearing the titles The Destruction of Troy and The Wars of Alexander.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hughes, Thomas

​Hughes, Thomas (1823?-1896).—Novelist and biographer, s. of a Berkshire squire, was ed. at Rugby and Oxf., and called to the Bar in 1848. Much the most successful of his books was Tom Brown's School-days (1856), which had an immense popularity, and perhaps remains the best picture of English public-school life in the language. Its sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861), was a comparative failure, but his Scouring of the White Horse deals in a charming way with his own countryside. He also wrote Lives of Alfred the Great, Bishop Fraser, and D. Macmillan, the publisher. H. devoted much attention to philanthropic work in conjunction with Kingsley and Maurice. In 1882 he was appointed a County Court Judge.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Howard, Edward

​Howard, Edward (d. 1841).—Novelist, a sea-comrade of Captain Marryat, and as sub ed. assisted him in conducting the Metropolitan Magazine. He wrote several sea novels, of which Rattlin the Reefer, sometimes attributed to Marryat, is the best known. Others were Outward Bound and Jack Ashore.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Howell, James

​Howell, James (1594?-1666).—Miscellaneous writer, s. of a clergyman at Abernant, Caermarthenshire, was at Oxf. and spent the greater part of his earlier life travelling in various Continental countries, including the Low Countries, France, Spain, and Italy, on various matters of business, during which he became versed in many languages, and amassed stores of information and observations on men and manners. He was a keen Royalist, and was on this account imprisoned in the Fleet, 1643-51. He wrote a large number of books, including Dodona's Grove, a political allegory, Instructions for Foreign Travel (1642), England's Tears for the Present Wars, A Trance, or News from Hell, and above all, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, Familiar Letters, chiefly written in the Fleet to imaginary correspondents, but no doubt based upon notes of his own travels. It is one of the most interesting and entertaining books in the language.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hume, Alexander

​Hume, Alexander (1560-1609).—Poet, s. of Patrick, 5th Lord Polwarth, ed. at St. Andrews, and on the Continent, was originally destined for the law, but devoted himself to the service of the Church, and was minister of Logie in Stirlingshire. He pub. in 1599 Hymns and Sacred Songs, including the beautiful "Day Estival," descriptive of a summer day.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Howie, John

​Howie, John (1735-1793).—Biographer, a Renfrewshire farmer, who claimed descent from an Albigensian refugee, wrote Lives of the martyrs of Scotland from Patrick Hamilton, the first, to James Renwick, the last, under the title of Scots Worthies. The work of an unlettered man, it has considerable merit as regards both matter and style, and was long a classic among the Scottish peasantry as well as higher orders of the people.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hughes, John

​Hughes, John (1677-1720).—Essayist and dramatist, was a clerk in the Ordnance Office, then sec. for the Commission of the Peace. He contributed to the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian, ed. Spenser, and wrote several dramas, of which the best is The Siege of Damascus. It was his last, he having d. on the first night of its performance. Addison thought so well of his dramatic talent that he requested him to write the conclusion of Cato. He, however, finished it himself. H. was a highly respectable person, and is affectionately commemorated by Sir Richard Steele.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Howard, Sir Robert

​Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698).—Dramatist, s. of the Earl of Berkshire, and brother-in-law of Dryden. On the outbreak of the Civil War he was of the King's party, and was imprisoned during the Commonwealth. After the Restoration, however, he was in favour with the Court, and held many important ​posts. He wrote some plays, of which the best was The Committee, and collaborated with Dryden in The Indian Queen. He was at odds with him, however, on the question of rhyme, the use of which he wrote against in very indifferent blank verse.
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# A Woman to Her Lover

Do you come to me to bend me to your will as conqueror to the vanquished to make of me a bondslave to bear you children, wearing out my life in drudgery and silence no servant will I be if that be what you ask. O lover I refuse you!
Or if you think in me to find whose every deed and word and wish is golden a wingless angel who can do no wrong go! - I am no doll to dress and sit for feeble worship if that be what you ask, fool, I refuse you!
Or if you think to wed with one from heaven sent a creature who will have no greater joy than gratify your clamorous desire, my skin soft only for your fond caresses my body supple only for your sense delight. Oh shame, and pity and abasement. Not for you the hand of any wakened woman of our time.
But lover, if you ask of me that I shall be your comrade, friend, and mate, to live and work, to love and die with you, that so together we may know the purity and height of passion, and of joy and sorrow, then o husband, I am yours forever and our co-equal love will make the stars to laugh with joy and to its circling fugue pass, hand holding hand until we reach the very heart of God.
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