1914 (poem)

"1914" is a sonnet by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I.

War broke: and now the Winter of the world

With perishing great darkness closes in.

The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,

Is over all the width of Europe whirled,

Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furled

Are all Art's ensigns. Verse wails. Now begin

Famines of thought and feeling. Love's wine's thin.

The grain of human Autumn rots, down-hurled.

For after Spring had bloomed in early Greece,

And Summer blazed her glory out with Rome,

An Autumn softly fell, a harvest home,

A slow grand age, and rich with all increase.

But now, for us, wild Winter, and the need

Of sowings for new Spring, and blood for seed.

Poems by Wilfred Owen

"1914"
"A New Heaven"
"A Terre"
"Anthem for Doomed Youth"
"Apologia Pro Poemate Meo"
"Arms and the Boy"
"As Bronze may be much Beautified"
"Asleep"
"At a Calvary near the Ancre"
"Beauty"
"But I was Looking at the Permanent Stars"
"Conscious"
"Cramped in that Funnelled Hole"
"Disabled"
"Dulce et Decorum est"
"Elegy in April and September"
"Exposure"
"Futility"
"Greater Love"
"Happiness"
"Has Your Soul Sipped?"
"Hospital Barge"
"I Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson"
"Insensibility"
"Inspection"
"Le Christianisme"
"Mental Cases"
"Miners"
"Music"
"S. I. W."
"Schoolmistress"
"Six O'Clock in Princes Street"
"Smile, Smile, Smile"
"Soldier's Dream"
"Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action"
"Spells and Incantations"
"Spring Offensive"
"Strange Meeting"
"The Calls"
"The Chances"
"The Dead-Beat"
"The End"
"The Kind Ghosts"
"The Last Laugh"
"The Letter"
"The Next War"
"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
"The Roads Also"
"The Send-off"
"The Sentry"
"The Show"
"The Wrestlers"
"Training"
"Uriconium An Ode"
"Wild with All Regrets"
"With an Identity Disc"

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