CONTENTS
Geoffrey Dearmer
From “W” Beach
3
A Prayer
5
Fallen
6
The Turkish Trench Dog
7
The Sentinel
9
Mudros after the Evacuation
12
The Dead Turk
18
Missing
17
Two Trench Poems
22
Gommecourt
24
A Vision
31
Revelation
33
Tell me, Stranger
34
Spring in the Trenches
36
On the Road
38
Keats, before Action
41
The Somme
42
Somme Flower Talk
46
To the Uttermost Farthing
48
In the Mess
53
A Trench Incident
54
Reality
55
“We Poets of the Proud Old Lineage”
56
Song
59
The Shadow
60
Everychild
62
Child of the Flowing Tide
64
Eight Sonnets
My thanks are due to the editors of the
Nineteenth Century
,
Cornhill Magazine
,
Observer
,
New Statesman
, and
Westminster Gazette
, for permission to reprint certain of these poems.
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