Wilfred Owen, selected poems Contents
- Author(s)
- 1914
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- At a Calvary near the Ancre
- Disabled
- Dulce et Decorum Est
- Exposure
- Futility
- Greater Love
- Hospital Barge
- Insensibility
- Inspection
- Le Christianisme
- Mental Cases
- Miners
- S.I.W.
- Soldier's Dream
- Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action
- Spring Offensive
- Strange Meeting
- The Dead-Beat
- The Last Laugh
- The Letter
- The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
- The Send-Off
- The Sentry
- Wild with All Regrets
Le Christianisme
So the church Christ was hit and buried
Under its rubbish and its rubble.
In cellars, packed-up saints lie serried,
Well out of hearing of our trouble.
One Virgin still immaculate (5)
Smiles on for war to flatter her.
She's halo'd with an old tin hat,
But a piece of hell will batter her.
1. Term for a worshipping community of Christians.
2. The building in which Christians traditionally meet for worship.
3. The worldwide community of Christian believers.
Title (eventually used as name) given to Jesus, refering to an anointed person set apart for a special task such as a king.
Mary, the mother of Jesus and wife of Joseph. It is traditionally understood that Mary was, and remained, a virgin during both the conception and birth of Jesus.
A ring of light, often depicted round the head of a saint or deity.
Jesus describes hell as the place where Satan and his demons reside and the realm where unrepentant souls will go after the Last Judgement.
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