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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