Some of the most beautiful poetry ever written has come from the horror of the trenches. Represented in this text are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight.

In Flanders fields / John McCrae -- The call / Jessie Pope -- In training / Edward Shanks -- Breakfast / Wilfrid Gibson -- Now that you too must shortly go the way / Eleanor Farjeon -- The send-off / Wilfred Owen -- Youth in arms I / Harold Monro -- A kiss / Bernard Freeman Trotter -- Warbride / Nina Murdoch -- Telling the bees / G.E.R. -- To my brother / Vera Brittain -- Socks / Jessie Pope -- My sweet old etcetera / e.e. cummings -- Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg -- Attack / Siegfried Sassoon -- 'They' / Siegfried Sassoon -- Billet / Ivor Gurney -- 'When this bloody war is over' / Soldiers' song -- Rendezvous / Alan Seeger -- An Irish airman foresees his death / W.B. Yeats -- The death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens -- The leveller / Robert Graves -- Rain! rain! rain! from Rhymes of a lost battalion doughboy -- Of Grandcourt / Ivor Gurney -- Easter Monday / Eleanor Farjeon -- Sing a song of war-time / Nina Macdonald -- Christmas 1916 : thoughts in a V.A.D. hospital kitchen / M. Winifred Wedgwood -- Women at munition making / Mary Gabrielle Collins -- War girls / Jessie Pope -- The V.A.D. scullery-maid's song / M. Winifred Wedgwood -- The admonition : to Betsy / Helen Parry Eden -- Trench idyll / Richard Aldington -- Winter warfare / Edgell Rickword -- Remorse / Siegfried Sassoon -- A son / Rudyard Kipling -- The general / Siegfried Sassoon -- The ridge : 1919 / Wilfrid Gibson -- Strange hells / Ivor Gurney -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- Poem / Ezra Pound -- A dead boche / Robert Graves -- The dug-out / Siegfried Sassoon -- To Germany / Charles Hamilton Sorley -- Grotesque / Frederic Manning -- A private / Edward Thomas -- First time in / Ivor Gurney -- Truce / Paul Muldoon -- A Shropshire lad : XXVII / A.E. Housman -- The dead fox hunter / Robert Graves -- Soldiers / F.S. Flint -- My brother / Mikhail Naimy -- Many sisters to many brothers / Rose Macauley -- Ultima ratio regum / Stephen Spender -- In the ambulance / Wilfrid Gibson -- A thrush in the trenches / Humbert Wolfe -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke -- The mother / May Herschel-Clark -- A war film / Theresa Hooley -- 'Those who wait' from Rhymes of a lost battalion doughboy -- Mothers / Kay Boyle -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- The silent one / Ivor Gurney -- The Kitchener chap / Horace Bray -- Strange meeting / Wilfred Owen -- I tracked a dead man down a trench / W.S.S. Lyon -- A story of today / Constance Powell -- The cherry trees / Edward Thomas -- The hero / Siegfried Sassoon -- The deserter / Gilbert Frankau -- 'Bully beef' from Rhymes of a lost battalion doughboy -- Returning, we hear the larks / Isaac Rosenberg -- Lights out / Edward Thomas -- A Shropshire lad : XI / A.E. Housman -- Light after darkness / E. Wyndham Tennant -- 'Bombed last night' / Soldiers' song -- Clearing-station / Wilhelm Klemm -- Field ambulance in retreat / May Sinclair -- Champs d'honneur / Ernest Hemingway -- 'I want to go home' / Soldiers' Song -- In a soldiers' hospital I : pluck / Eva Dobell -- The veteran / Margaret Postgate Cole -- To the warmongers / Siegfried Sassoon -- The falling leaves / Margaret Postgate Cole -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- The wars and the unknown soldier / Conrad Aiken -- 'The medal' from Rhymes of a lost battalion doughboy -- Disabled / Wilfred Owen -- From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound -- Not to keep / Robert Frost -- Lamplight / May Wedderburn Cannan -- On active service / Edith Wharton -- Mental cases / Wilfred Owen -- In a soldiers' hospital II : gramophone tunes / Eva Dobell -- A memory / Margaret Sackville -- May, 1915 / Charlotte Mew -- For the fallen / Laurence Binyon.