Poems of the Great War

At a time when the need for courage and tenacity of the British people was at its peak, these poems published at the outset of the First World War emerged as an attempt to bolster the war effort and reinforce the determination of a people and a country under siege.

Despite the fact that the war was to continue for another four dreary, deadly years, these poems - poems of hope, victory and a wished for peace - assisted a nation in peril to cope with the daily threat to its existence and helped remind the British people of the leaders they were in the fight for freedom and justice.

Much praise is due this diverse band of inspirational poets who assumed the rallying cry of a nation whose liberty was under threat and took it upon themselves to unite and arouse a people's resistance against the developing perils that were befalling them.

These are poets who knew there was a solution to the war's conundrum of escalating violence and that it lay through the issuance of a rallying cry for a great nation to uphold the rule of law and fight this new and fierce enemy - this enemy of peace-loving nations, an evil that would consume all in its path if permitted.

This rallying cry, this plea, this decree, this appeal to the resistance that defined a nation and which would ultimately spell victory is eloquently articulated by Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges, as he commands, "Up, careless, awake! Ye peacemakers, fight! England stands for Honour: God defend the Right!"

01 - Duty



02 - "Wake up, England"



03 - The Vigil



04 - To the Troubler of the World



05 - To England: To Strike Quickly



06 - The Fourth of August



07 - The United Front



08 - England to the Sea



09 - The Hour



10 - The Wife of Flanders



11 - The Stars in their Courses



12 - Commandeered



13 - The Man who Keeps his Head



14 - France



15 - We Willed it Not



16 - Pro Patria



17 - Hymn before Action



18 - Hymn in War Time

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