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Great Poems of the World War

Various

Read by Alan Mapstone · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Before Action by Lieut. William Noel Hodgson (1893-1916) (2:16)
No Man's Land by Capt. James H. Knight-Adkin (1878-1948) (2:30)
French in the Trenches by William J. Robinson (1867-1936) (2:50)
Ragnarok by Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943) (3:42)
Poppies by Capt. John Mills Hanson (2:15)
The Graves of Gallipolli by L.L. (A.N.Z.A.C) (3:21)
Battle of Belleau Wood by Edgar A. Guest (2:43)
Bullington by C. Fox Smith (1882-1954) (4:05)
Christ in Flanders by L. W. (3:42)
Not Too Old to Fight by T. C. Harbaugh (1849-1924) (3:21)
In Flanders Fields by Lieut. Col. John McCrae (d.1918) (1:22)
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) (1:32)
The Gentlemen of Oxford by Norah M. Holland (1876-1925) (2:29)
Morituri te Salutant by P.H.B.L (2:48)
Magpies in Picardy by "Tipcuca" (2:30)
The Song of the Guns by Herbert Kaufman (1878-1947) (2:43)
Telling the Bees by G.E.R. (2:14)
The War Horse by Lieut. L. Fleming (3:52)
The Homecoming by Leroy Folge (3:29)
The Unknown Soldier Armistice Day at Arlington by Grantland Rice (d.1954) (5:08)