FIRST WORLD WAR POEMS
1 Anna Akhmatova - In memoriam,
July 19, 1914
2 Guillaume Apollinaire - Gala
3 Laurence Binyon - For the fallen
4 Edmund Blunden - In Festubert
5 Edmund Blunden - Concert party: Busseboom
6 Mary Borden - Song of the mud
7 Rupert Brooke - The soldier
8 May Wedderburn Cannan - Rouen
9 Charles Causley - On seeing a poet of the First
World War at Abbeville
10 Tommy Crawford - The stretcher bearer
11 Elizabeth Daryush - For a survivor of the
Mesopotamian campaign
12 Eleanor Farjeon - Easter Monday
(In memoriam E.T)
13 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson - The messages
14 Robert Graves - The legion
15 Julian Grenfell - Into battle
16 Ivor Gurney - Strange hells
17 Ivor Gurney - To his love
18 Ivor Gurney - The silent one
19 Thomas Hardy - Channel firing
20 Thomas Hardy - In time of ‘the breaking
of nations’
21 F.W. Harvey - Ducks
22 Seamus Heaney - In memoriam Francis
Ledwidge
23 A.P. Herbert - The cookers
24 Mick Imlah - London Scottish
25 David Jones - In Parenthesis, part 2, pp23-24
26 David Jones - In Parenthesis, part 7,
pp165-166
27 David Jones - In Parenthesis, part 7,
pp183-186
28 Rudyard Kipling - My boy Jack
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Francis Ledwidge - The dead kings
Michael Longley - In memoriam
Amy Lowell - Convalescence
Rose Macaulay - Picnic
Helen Mackay - Train
Glyn Maxwell - My grandfather at the pool
Charlotte Mew - The cenotaph
Andrew Motion - Death of Harry Patch
Paul Muldoon - Truce
Wilfred Owen - Arms and the boy
Wilfred Owen - The send-off
Wilfred Owen - The show
Ezra Pound - Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Part 1)
Edgell Rickword - Trench poets
Edgell Rickword - The soldier addresses his body
Isaac Rosenberg - Autumn 1914
Isaac Rosenberg - Break of day in the trenches
Isaac Rosenberg - Returning we hear the larks
Siegfried Sassoon - The counter-attack
Siegfried Sassoon - The death bed
Vernon Scannell - The Great War
Alan Seeger - I have a rendezvous with Death
Owen Sheers - Mametz Wood
May Sinclair - Field ambulance in retreat
Edith Sitwell - The dancers
Edward Słonski - She who has not died
Charles Sorley - All the hills and vales along
Charles Sorley - When you see millions of the
mouthless dead
Ernst Stadler - Setting out
Mary Symon - The soldier’s cairn
Sara Teasdale - There will come soft rains
Edward Thomas - Lights out
Edward Thomas - Rain
Edward Thomas - Roads
Georg Trakl - Grodek
Arthur Graeme West - The night patrol
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