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Book: The Red Flower

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  • Mare Liberum
    You dare to say with perjured lips,
    "We fight to make the ocean free"?
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • The Name of France
    Give us a name to fill the mind
    With the shining thoughts that lead mankind,
    30 lines
  • Lights Out
    "Lights out" along the land,
    "Lights out" upon the sea.
    24 lines
  • 'Liberty Enlightening the World'
    Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,
    The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:
    23 lines
  • The Price of Peace
    Peace without Justice is a low estate,--
    A coward cringing to an iron Fate!
    4 lines
  • Homeward Bound
    Home, for my heart still calls me;
    Home, through the danger zone;
    36 lines
  • The Bells of Malines
    AUGUST 17, 1914
    The gabled roofs of old Malines
    61 lines
  • The Oxford Thrushes
    FEBRUARY, 1917
    I never thought again to hear
    33 lines
  • War-Music
    Break off! Dance no more!
    Danger is at the door.
    67 lines
  • The Glory of Ships
    The glory of ships is an old, old song,
    since the days when the sea-rovers ran
    54 lines
  • A Scrap of Paper
    "Will you go to war just for a scrap of paper?" -- Question
    of the German Chancellor to the British Ambassador,
    17 lines
  • America's Prosperity
    They tell me thou art rich, my country: gold
    In glittering flood has poured into thy chest;
    14 lines
  • Storm-Music
    O Music hast thou only heard
    The laughing river, the singing bird,
    66 lines
  • Flood-Tide of Flowers
    IN HOLLAND
    The laggard winter ebbed so slow
    31 lines, 1 comment
  • Might and Right
    If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage;
    If Right made Might, this were the golden age;
    4 lines
  • The Proud Lady
    When Stiivoren town was in its prime
    And queened the Zuyder Zee,
    76 lines
  • Remarks About Kings
    "God said I am tired of kings." -- EMERSON
    God said, "I am tired of kings,"--
    17 lines
  • The Heavenly Hills of Holland
    The heavenly hills of Holland,--
    How wondrously they rise
    32 lines
  • Stand Fast!
    Stand fast, Great Britain!
    Together England, Scotland, Ireland stand
    27 lines
  • Jeanne d'Arc Returns
    1914-1916
    What hast thou done, O womanhood of France,
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • The Red Flower
    In the pleasant time of Pentecost,
    By the little river Kyll,
    36 lines
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