The Soldier (poem) quoted verbatim at the funeral of a soldier killed in battle (at 1:09:30). The Soldier (poem) "The Soldier" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth of a series of poems entitled "1914". It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem "Dulce et Decorum est". The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge. This poem was written at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, as part of a series of sonnets written by Rupert Brooke. Brooke himself, predominantly a prewar poet, died the year after "The Soldier" was published. "The Soldier",
The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) away? </poem> In his LP "Branduardi canta Yeats" (1986), Angelo Branduardi sings an Italian version of this poem. The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) "The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the "Little Review", and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections "The Wild Swans at Coole". It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, and