Anthem for Doomed Youth the first line of the poem: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" The third album by British band The Libertines is named "Anthems For Doomed Youth", and features a song of the same name. American composer Stephen Whitehead included an orchestral setting of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" as a movement in his orchestral piece "Three Laments on the Great War" for soloists and orchestra. The piece is scored as a duet for mezzo-soprano and bass/baritone with orchestra. Anthem for Doomed Youth "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a well-known poem written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen. It incorporates the
Five Bells Bells" (1939), which returned to me, like a remembered song, one midnight on a ferry in the centre of Circular Quay". The text of the poem is reproduced on a banister in Kenneth Slessor Park in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood. Five Bells "Five Bells" (1939) is a meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published as the title poem in the author's collection "Five Bells : XX Poems", and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. The poem is a meditative piece based on a ship's bell ringing five bells - which occurs at either 2:30, 6:30,