Poems from the Second World War

POLLICITI MELORA
Frank Thompson
SEPTEMBER, 1939
Vera Brittain
IN SEPTEMBER 1939
Bernard Gutteridge
BOURNEMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 3RD, 1939
Anthony Thwaite
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Elizabeth Jennings
NEWGALE SANDS 1940
Joan Barton
EMPTY YOUR POCKETS
John Pudney
NEWS REEL OF EMBARKATION
Timothy Corsellis
from ON EMBARKATION
Alun Lewis
I NEVER RAISED MY BOY
Traditional North Country
REFUGEE BLUES
W.H. Auden
WAR POET
Sidney Keyes
MARTIAL CADENZA
Wallace Stevens
MAIL CALL
Randall Jarrel
A LULLABY
Randall Jarrel
ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED
Alun Lewis
LESSONS OF THE WAR (TO ALAN MICHELL)
Henry Reed
FIRST NEW REEL: SEPTEMBER 1939 Joan Barton
BOMBED CHURCH Elizabeth Berridge
CUNARD LINER1940
Phyllis Shand Allfrey
7 OCTOBER, 1940 Valentine Ackland
DUNKIRK
Mary Desiree Anderson
PILOT STATION, HARWICH Alan Ross
THE TRAINS Judith Wright
BOMBING AT NOON OF SCHOOL AT LEWISHAM May Hill
 
FROM A LETTER TO AMERICA ON A VISIT TO SUSSEX:
SPRING 1942
Frances Cornjord
THE SUNLIGHT ON THE GARDEN
Louis MacNeice
SONNET, 1940
Gavin Ewart
LEAVE POEM
Anne Bulley
LEAVE
John Buxton
THE BLACK-OUT
Mary Desiree Anderson
I'VE FINISHED MY BLACK-OUT
Anon
BLACK-OUT
Valentine Ackland
'BLITZ'
Mary Desiree Anderson
AUTUMN BLITZ
Frances Cornjord
OCTOBER 1940
Anon
AEROPLANES
Herbert Read
FOR JOHNNY
John Pudney
IMMENSITY
Mabel Esther Allan
HIGH FLIGHT
John Magee
THE HEART TO CARRY ON
Bertram Warr
UNSEEN FIRE
R. N. Currey
THE CLICK OF THE GARDEN GATE
May Hill
'THE CASUALTIES WERE SMALL'
May Hill
AIRCREW
Brian Allwood
PILOT
Brian Allwood
A GUNNER'S DAY
Anon
RAIDERS' DAWN
Alun Lewis
AFTER NIGHT OFFENSIVE
James Farrar
PARACHUTE DESCENT
David Bourne
AIRMAN'S WIFE
James Farrar
MECHANIZATION
E. F. Gosling
'NON-WALKING WOUNDED WILL BE LEFT WITH CIVILIA
WHERE POSSIBLE.'
Douglas Street
25-POUNDER
Francis Scatfe
FIRING WITH HEAVY GUNS
R. N. Currey
THE TARN
John Buxton
How TO KILL
Keith Douglas
CASSINO REVISITED
Douglas Street
LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES
Keith Douglas
LETTER FROM ITALY
Robert Garioch
EMBARKATION, 1942
John Jarmain
.from ELEGY FOR AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER
James K. Baxter
EL ALAMEIN
John Jarmain
WAR GRAVES AT EL ALAMEIN
Vernon Scannell
ENFIDAVILLE
Keith Douglas
from BURMA CASUALTY
Alun Lewis
TROOPSHIP
Roy Fuller
A TROOPSHIP IN THE TROPICS
Alun Lewis
WALKING WOUNDED
Vernon Scannell
from To GIVE COMFORT
Marc Kaminsky
CASUALTY - MENTAL WARD
Vernon Scannell
LADY IN BLACK
Alun Lewis
KILLED IN ACTION
Juliette de Bairacli-Levy
SONG OF THE DYING GUNNER
Charles Causley
WAR LETTERS
Roy Fuller
SIMPLIFY ME WHEN I'M DEAD
Keith Douglas
POSTSCRIPT: FOR GWENO
Aluti Lewis
THE SENTRY
AIUII Lewis
THE FALLEN
John Gawsworth
EARLY SPRING
Sidney Keyes
SONNET: PARTHENOGENESIS
James Farrar
ATTIC
Lotte Kramer
PEOPLE WEEPING Lily Brett
I KEEP FORGETTING
Lily Brett
EVERY MONTH Marc Kaminsky
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF POETS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS