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1914
Wilfred Owen
War broke: and now the Winter of the world
With perishing great darkness closes in.
The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,
Is over all the width of...
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1914 I: Peace
Rupert Brooke
Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
With hand made sure, clear eye, and...
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1914 II: Safety
Rupert Brooke
Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest
He who has found our hid security,
Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest,
And heard our...
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1914 III: The Dead
Rupert Brooke
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These...
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1914 IV: The Dead
Rupert Brooke
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth.
The years had given them kindness. Dawn was...
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1914 V: The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a...
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August 1914
Isaac Rosenberg
What in our lives is burnt
In the fire of this?
The heart’s dear granary?
The much we shall...
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Champagne, 1914-15
Alan Seeger
In the glad revels, in the happy fetes,
When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled
With the sweet wine of France that concentrates
The...
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Christmas Eve 1914
Eugene Field
Silent, to-night, o'er Judah's hills
Bend low the angel throng,
No heavenly music fills the air
Exultantly with song;
Yet, close above the...
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Ease. 1914
Leon Gellert
The iron is hidden in forgetfulness.
A smoothness comes to men and lies on lands.
Women of peace arise in lustred dress,
and hold aloft their sleek...
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From My Diary, July 1914
Wilfred Owen
Leaves
Murmuring by miriads in the shimmering trees.
Lives
Wakening with wonder in the Pyrenees.
Birds
Cheerily chirping in the early day.
Bards...
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Minds. Ww1(1914-1918)
James Reid
Nibbles

nibbles away

afraid, scared

day after day

nibbles.

single sniper shot

worst of the lot

whispers past.

machine-gun...
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Reality (ww1 1914-1918)
James Reid
REALITY (WW1 1914-1918)


HOW WOULD YOU FEEL
OUT IN THE FIELD

trench foot
mortar bombs

ALWAYS ON THE ALERT
SOAKING, DRIPPING...
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REALITY (WW1 1914-1918) by JAMES REID.
James Reid
How would you feel, out in the field
trench foot, mortar bombs
always on the alert, soaking, dripping wet
sleep an impossible dream
hearing, seeing,...
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Sonnets of the Empire: Australia 1914
Archibald Thomas Strong
The Night is thick with storm and driving cloud,
Lurid at instants through the blackness break
Quick gleams of war across the perilous lake
From...
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Summer in England, 1914
Alice Meynell
On London fell a clearer light;
Caressing pencils of the sun
Defined the distances, the white
Houses transfigured one by one,
The 'long, unlovely...
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Crazy for the Trenches, 1914
Douglas Blair
Do you see it all

With a glow my Son.

This war that’s just begun.

Do you want to go

Do you need it so?

The shovel, boots and gun.

...
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