Poetry of the First World War by Kendall, Tim -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction Note on the Anthology Select Bibliography A Chronology of the War Years Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

Men Who March Away England to Germany in 1914 On the Belgian Expatriation The Pity of It In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ Before Marching and After A New Year’s Eve in War Time I Looked Up from My Writing ‘According to the Mighty Working’ ‘And There Was a Great Calm’

A. E. Housman (1859–1936)

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

May Sinclair (1863–1946)

Field Ambulance in Retreat After the Retreat Dedication

W. B. Yeats (1865–1939)

On Being Asked for a War Poem An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

‘For All We Have and Are’ ‘Tin Fish’ The Children ‘The Trade’ My Boy Jack The Verdicts Mesopotamia Gethsemane Epitaphs A Death-Bed Justice The Changelings The Vineyard

Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)

For the Fallen

Charlotte Mew (1869–1928)

May, 1915 June, 1915 The Cenotaph

Robert Service (1874–1958)

Tipperary Days Only a Boche Tri-colour

Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

A Private The Owl In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) This is no case of petty right or wrong Rain Roads The Cherry Trees No one cares less than I As the team’s head-brass The Trumpet

Wilfrid Gibson (1878–1962)

The Messages Breakfast Hit Between the Lines Strawberries Otterburn Air-Raid

Mary Borden (1886–1968)

At the Somme

Where is Jehovah? The Song of the Mud The Hill

Unidentified

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)

The Redeemer A Working Party The Kiss A Night Attack Christ and the Soldier ‘They’ The Poet as Hero ‘Blighters’ Base Details The Rear-Guard The General Repression of War Experience Counter-Attack How to Die Glory of Women Everyone Sang On Passing the New Menin Gate

Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

1914

I Peace II Safety III The Dead IV The Dead V The Soldier

[Fragment]

Julian Grenfell (1888–1915)

Prayer for Those on the Staff Into Battle

T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888–1918)

Magpies in Picardy Song of Amiens

Patrick Shaw Stewart (1888–1917)

[I saw a man this morning]

Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)

Pain To the Prussians of England To His Love The Bugle Billet First Time In Strange Hells Farewell La Rime Serenade Joyeuse et Durandal The Stokes Gunners The Bohemians The Retreat Signallers It is Near Toussaints The Silent One

Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)

[A worm fed on the heart of Corinth] Break of Day in the Trenches August 1914 Louse Hunting From France Returning, we hear the larks Dead Man’s Dump Daughters of War [Through these pale cold days]

Arthur Graeme West (1891–1917)

The Night Patrol God! How I Hate You, You Young Cheerful Men!

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

Anthem for Doomed Youth The Sentry Dulce et Decorum Est Insensibility Greater Love Disabled Apologia pro Poemate Meo The Show [I saw his round mouth’s crimson] A Terre Exposure Miners The Last Laugh Strange Meeting Futility The Send-Off Mental Cases The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Spring Offensive Smile, Smile, Smile

Margaret Postgate Cole (1893–1980)

Præmaturi The Falling Leaves Afterwards

May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973)

August 1914 Rouen Lamplight ‘After the War’ The Armistice For a Girl Perfect Epilogue

Charles Sorley (1895–1915)

[All the hills and vales along] To Germany [A hundred thousand million mites we go] Two Sonnets [When you see millions of the mouthless dead]

Robert Graves (1895–1985)

It’s a Queer Time A Dead Boche Corporal Stare A Child’s Nightmare Two Fusiliers Sergeant-Major Money Recalling War

David Jones (1895–1974)

from In Parenthesis

Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)

Festubert: The Old German Line Thiepval Wood 1916 seen from 1921 Illusions Concert Party: Busseboom Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July 1917 La Quinque Rue ‘Trench Nomenclature’ ‘Can you Remember?’ Ancre Sunshine

Edgell Rickword (1898–1982)

Winter Warfare The Soldier Addresses his Body Advice to a Girl from the War Trench Poets War and Peace Moonrise over Battlefield

Music-Hall and Trench Songs

Never Mind Mademoiselle from Armenteers Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag Fred Karno’s Army I Want to Go Home The Bells of Hell If It’s a German—Guns Up! Après la Guerre Fini The Old Barbed Wire Hush! Here Comes a Whizz-Bang That Shit Shute Bombed Last Night I Wore a Tunic Good-bye-ee! Oh! It’s a Lovely War

Explanatory Notes Acknowledgements Index of Titles and First Lines Footnotes

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