First linesWilfred Owen

  1. After the blast of lightning from the east, The End
  2. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Dulce Et Decorum Est
  3. Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way The Send-Off
  4. Earth’s wheels run oiled with blood. Forget we that. Strange Meeting
  5. Halted against the shade of a last hill, Spring Offensive
  6. Happy are men who yet before they are killed Insensibility
  7. He dropped⁠—more sullenly than wearily, The Dead-Beat
  8. He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, Disabled
  9. Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Smile, Smile, Smile
  10. His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed. Conscious
  11. I mind as ’ow the night afore that show The Chances
  12. I, too, saw God through mud⁠— Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
  13. It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Strange Meeting
  14. Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade Arms and the Boy
  15. Move him into the sun⁠— Futility
  16. My arms have mutinied against me⁠—brutes! Wild with All Regrets
  17. My soul looked down from a vague height with Death, The Show
  18. Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us⁠ ⁠… Exposure
  19. Patting goodbye, doubtless they told the lad S.I.W.
  20. Red lips are not so red Greater Love
  21. Sit on the bed; I’m blind, and three parts shell, A Terre
  22. So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, Parable of the Old Men and the Young
  23. We’d found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, The Sentry
  24. What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Anthem for Doomed Youth
  25. Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Mental Cases

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