Contents
Introduction
John Masefield: 1878–1967
August, 1914
Rudyard Kipling: 1865–1936
For All We Have and Are
Rupert Brooke: 1887–1915
The Soldier
Fragment
Edward Thomas: 1878–1917
Fifty Faggots
This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong
Lights Out
The Owl
When First
John McCrae: 1872–1918
In Flanders Fields
Charles Hamilton Sorley: 1895–1915
To Germany
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead
Isaac Rosenberg: 1890–1918
The Dead Heroes
Marching: as seen from the left file
From France
Returning, We Hear the Larks
Richard Aldington: 1882–1962
Bombardment
Wilfred Owen: 1893–1918
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Greater Love
Mental Cases
Spring Offensive
Wilfred Gibson: 1878–1962
Air-Raid
Ivor Gurney: 1890–1937
To the Poet Before Battle
Pain
The Dearness of Common Things
The Target
First Time In
Robert Graves: 1895–1985
When I’m Killed
The Assault Heroic
Corporal Stare
Recalling War
Harold Monro: 1878–1932
Officers’ Mess
Siegfried Sassoon: 1886–1967
Counter-Attack
Dreamers
Prelude: The Troops
The Rear-Guard
Edgell Rickword: 1898–1982
Moonrise over Battlefield
The Soldier Addresses His Body
War and Peace
Herbert Read: 1893–1968
The Retreat
Thomas Hardy: 1840–1928
Men Who March Away: Song of the Soldiers
And There Was a Great Calm: On The Signing of the Armistice November 11, 1918
Credits