"All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true poet must be truthful."

"The people of England needn’t hope. They must agitate." Letter 19 January, 1917, shortly after arriving at the front line in France.

"I am more and more a Christian. . . Suffer dishonour and disgrace, but never resort to arms. Be bullied, be outraged, be killed: but do not kill." Letter to his mother, May 1917.

Exposure
Spring Offensive
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Dulce et Decorum Est
The Letter
Strange Meeting
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Disabled
Greater Love
The Send-Off

Complete poems and manuscripts