Some Famous War Poets and Poems

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Below lists some famous war poets with associated poems ... selected for a U3A discussion group on war poetry ... a wide selection and well worthy of a Post ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92)

The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Leon Gellert (1892-1977)
These Men.

The Last to Leave.

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

To the Fallen.

The second stanza are the famous lines ...

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

            Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,

            We will remember them.

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Sonnet 111: The Dead.

Sonnet V: The Soldier

Herbert Read (1893-1968)

Bombing Casualties.

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Anthem for Doomed Youth.

Sentry.

Dulce et Decorum Est

Futility.

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Glory of Women.

W. W. Gibson (1878-1962)

Breakfast

The Send-Off.

Eva Dobell (1867-1963)

Advent, 1916.

Bruce Dawe (1930 -)

Homecoming.

Vietnam Postscript, 1975

May Herschel-Clarke (1850-1950)

The Mother

The Rear-Guard.