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
Willem die Madoc maecte Willem die Madoc maecte Willem die Madoc maecte (c.1200 – c.1250; "William-who-made-the-Madoc") is the traditional designation of the author of "Van den vos Reynaerde", a Middle Dutch version of the story of "Reynard the Fox". The name of the author derives from the first line of the poem, where he introduces himself as the same Willem who had previously written a work called "Madoc": <poem>Willem, die Madoc maecte, Daer hi dicken omme waecte, Hem vernoyde so haerde Dat die avonture van Reynaerde In dietsche onghemaket bleven. (Willem, who wrote Madoc, As he often took such care It troubled him so