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To a Conscript of 1940
275
To Germany
16
To his Love
97
To these I turn, in these I trust;
31
To what God
17
To you who'd read my songs of War
150
Trench Poets
98
Trenches in the moonlight, allayed with lulling moonlight
59
True he'd have fought to death if the Germans came –
206
Trumpet, The
20
Two children in my garden playing found
243
Two Fusiliers
230
Two Sonnets
106

Under the level winter sky

43

Veteran, The

213

Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July, 1917
72
Volunteer, The
154

War

77

War and Peace
249
War Books
265
War Film, A
190
War Films, The
192
War Generation: Ave, The
274
War Girls
169
‘
We are Fred Karno's army
'
34
We are Fred Karno's army, we are the ragtime infantry.
34
We ate our breakfast lying on our backs,
50
We came upon him sitting in the sun,
213
We digged our trenches on the down
35
We lay and ate sweet hurt-berries
197
We marched, and saw a company of Canadians
78
We planned to shake the world together, you and I
261
We'd gained our first objective hours before
135
We're here
57
‘
We're here because we're here
'
57
What did they expect of our toil and extreme
265
What of the faith and fire within us
41
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
131
When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm, –
172
‘
When this bloody war is over
'
222
When this bloody war is over,
222
When you have lost your all in a world's upheaval,
209
‘
When you see millions of the mouthless dead
'
158
When you see millions of the dead
158
Where war has left its wake of whitened bone,
77
Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?
218
Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two –
60
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
247
Who's for the trench –
21
Wife and Country
173
Winter Warfare
53
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
235
Woodbine Willie
80

You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,

16

You became
83
Youth in Arms I
25
Youth in Arms II: Soldier
40
Youth in Arms III: Retreat
137
Youth in Arms IV: Carrion
149

Zeppelins

186

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