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
Leisure (poem) celebrated opening of his wise little poem "Leisure" has its origins here." Stonesifer traces the central idea to a number of Davies' other poems - "The housebuilder" (from the 1914 "The Bird of Paradise"), "A Happy Life" and "Traffic", as well as "Bells" and "This World". Davies is generally best known for the opening two lines of this poem. It has appeared in most of the anthologies of his work and in many general poem anthologies, including: The poem features, in spoken form, on the album "Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry (Part I)", originally issued in 1960 on the