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
Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action
Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm,
Great Gun towering towards Heaven, about to curse;
Sway steep against them, and for years rehearse
Huge imprecations like a blasting charm!
Reach at that Arrogance which needs thy harm, (5)
And beat it down before its sins grow worse.
Spend our resentment, cannon,---yea, disburse
Our gold in shapes of flame, our breaths in storm.
Yet, for men's sakes whom thy vast malison
Must wither innocent of enmity, (10)
Be not withdrawn, dark arm, thy spoilure done,
Safe to the bosom of our prosperity.
But when thy spell be cast complete and whole,
May God curse thee, and cut thee from our soul!
In many religions, the place where God dwells, and to which believers aspire after their death. Sometimes known as Paradise.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
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