Behind Their Lines

Frederick Wm Darvell, missing, presumed killed One of the tragedies of The Great War are the men who were literally "lost," ...

Youth Mourning, George Clausen From its opening image of “the aching womb of night,” exhaustion and pain struggle for breath throughout...

Imagining the future has an added poignancy in a time of war.   Rupert Brooke, one of the most famous of the soldier poets of the Great W...

J. Howard Stables In 1916, a reviewer wrote about J. Howard Stables' volume of poetry,  " The Sorrow that Whistled  is an unusual ...

There are war poems that ring with exultation: “ Stand in the trench, Achilles,/ Flame-capped, and shout for me .” Others sou...