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Title: The Silk-Hat Soldier
And Other Poems in War Time
Author: Richard le Gallienne
Release Date: September 19, 2006 [EBook #19313]
Language: English
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THE WORKS OF RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy, and Other Poems, Mainly Personal.
English Poems. Revised.
Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism.
George Meredith: Some Characteristics.
With a bibliography (much enlarged) by John Lane.
The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance.
The Romance of Zion Chapel.
The Worshipper of the Image: A Tragic Fairy Tale.
Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
A Paraphrase from Several Literary Translations.
New edition with fifty additional quatrains.
With cover design by Will Bradley.
Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log.
(New edition.) 2 vols.
Prose Fancies. First series.
With portrait of the author by Wilson Steer.
Prose Fancies. Second series.
Travels in England. New edition.
New Poems.
Attitudes and Avowals. With Some Retrospective Reviews.
The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems.
THE SILK-HAT SOLDIER
AND OTHER POEMS IN WAR TIME
BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
NEW YORK--JOHN LANE COMPANY
LONDON--JOHN LANE--THE BODLEY HEAD
MCMXV
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
JOHN LANE COMPANY
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Co.
New York
To His Majesty
ALBERT I.
King of the Belgians
THE HEROIC CAPTAIN OF AN HEROIC PEOPLE
CONTENTS
PAGE
To Belgium 9
The Silk-Hat Soldier 11
The Cry of the Little Peoples 15
The Illusion of War 20
Christmas in War-time 22
"Soldier Going to the War" 29
The Rainbow
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