In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fieldsAnd I have known the eyes already, known them all—
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
April 6 – Publication in London of the American Ezra Pound's poetry collection Cathay, "translations... for the most part of the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga", by Elkin Mathews.April 24 – Deportation of Armenian notables from Istanbul begins. Among deported poets killed as part of the Armenian Genocide are Ardashes Harutiunian, Jacques Sayabalian, Ruben Sevak and Siamanto.c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat.July – Others: A Magazine of the New Verse is founded by Alfred Kreymborg; it will run until 1917, publishing poetry, other writing and visual art.August–December – Ezra Pound is completing the first sections of his poem The Cantos.Poets and World War I
see also "Deaths in World War I" in the "Deaths" section, below
May 13 – While Julian Grenfell stands talking with other officers, a shell lands a few yards away and a splinter hits him in the head. He is taken to a hospital in Boulogne, where he dies 13 days later. His poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times the day after his death. His younger brother Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell is killed in action 2 months laterSeptember 11 – Publication of Lucy Whitmell's poem "Christ in Flanders" in The Spectator.Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser, a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916, loses his right arm during his service in World War IC. J. Dennis, long poem The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, after serialization in The Bulletin since 1909, AustraliaHenry Lawson, My Army, o my Army! and other Songs, AustraliaShaw Neilson, Old Granny Sullivan, Sydney, Bookfellow, AustraliaArthur Stanley Bourinot, Laurentian Lyrics and Other PoemsJohn McCrae, "In Flanders Fields", a war memorial poem, is written on May 3 after McCrae's friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in battle (McCrae himself would not survive the war); later in the year the poem is published in Punch (Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom; see text of poem, above)Robert W. Norwood, His Lady of the SonnetsDuncan Campbell Scott, Lines in Memory of Edmund MorrisFrederick George Scott, The Gates of Time, and Other Poems (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons.Richard Aldington, Images 1910-15Rupert Brooke, 1914 & Other PoemsG. K. Chesterton, PoemsFrances Cornford, Spring MorningJohn Drinkwater, Swords and PloughsharesT. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock published in Poetry magazine in Chicago (June), then, later this year, in a book in the United KingdomF. S. Flint, CadencesWilfrid Gibson, BattleThomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain, lines on the loss of the Titanic"Ford Madox Hueffer, AntwerpViolet Jacob, Songs of Angus, Scottish poetRudyard KiplingThe Fringes of the Fleet, essays and poems"My Boy Jack", written after his beloved son, John (called Jack) goes missing in the Battle of Loos during World War I; years later, Jack's death is confirmed to Kipling and his family; a play and film with the same title are later created, based on the Kipling family's lossRonald Knox, Absolute and Abitofhell, first published in Oxford Magazine (November 28, 1912); satirical verse on Foundations, 1912Richard Le Gallienne, The Silk-Hat Soldier, and Other PoemsFrancis Ledwidge, Songs of the Fields, Irish author published in the United KingdomJohn McCrae, "In Flanders Fields", a war memorial poem, is written on May 3 after McCrae's friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in battle (McCrae himself would not survive the war); later in the year the poem is published in Punch (Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom)James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, Pro Patria, Scottish poetAlice Meynell, Poems of the WarJessie Pope, Jessie Pope's War Poems and More War PoemsEzra Pound, Cathay, American poet published in the United KingdomHardwicke Rawnsley, The European War 1914-1915: PoemsHerbert Read, Songs of ChaosGeorge William Russell, ("Æ"):Gods of War, with Other PoemsImaginations and ReveriesEdith Sitwell, The Mother and Other PoemsJames Stephens, Irish author published in the United Kingdom:The Adventures of Seumas Beg: The Rocky Road to DublinSongs from the ClayJ. R. R. Tolkien, "Goblin Feet", published in Oxford PoetryKatharine Tynan, Flower of Youth: poems in war timeAnna Wickham, The Contemplative QuarryH. B. Elliott, ed., Lest We Forget: A War AnthologyPoems of TodayEzra Pound, ed., Catholic Anthology, LondonWar Poems from The Times, August 1914-1915Contents to Some Imagist Poets anthology, the first of three books with the same title published in the next two years (includes English and American poets):
Richard Aldington: "Childhood", "The Poplar", "Round-Pond", "Daisy", "Epigrams", "The Faun sees Snow for the First Time", "Lemures"H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): "The Pool", "The Garden", "Sea Lily", "Sea Iris", "Sea Rose", "Oread", "Orion Dead"John Gould Fletcher: "The Blue Symphony", "London Excursion"F. S. Flint: "Trees", "Lunch", "Malady", "Accident", "Fragment", "Houses", "Eau-Forte"D. H. Lawrence: "Ballad of Another Ophelia", "Illicit", "Fireflies in the Corn", "A Woman and Her Dead Husband", "The Mowers", "Scent of Irises", "Green"Amy Lowell: "Venus Transiens", "The Travelling Bear", "The Letter", "Grotesque", "Bullion", "Solitaire", "The Bombardment"See also "Some Imagist Poets" subsection, above
Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women, her first book of poems, which she described as a collection of "rhythms and drawings"Stephen Vincent Benet, Five Men and PompeyAdelaide Crapsey, Verse, featuring her invention of the quintain, a five-line formT. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock first published in Poetry magazineJohn Gould Fletcher, Irradiations: Sand and SprayRing Lardner, Bib BalladsArchibald MacLeish, Songs for a Summer's DayEdgar Lee Masters, Spoon River AnthologyJohn G. Neihardt, The Song of Hugh GlassEzra Pound:Cathay, American poet published in the United KingdomEditor, Catholic Anthology, LondonSara Teasdale, Rivers to the SeaRoby Datta, Indian poet writing in English:Poems: Pictures and Songs to which is prefixed "The Philosophy of Art" Calcutta: Das Gupta and Co.Stories in blank verse to which is added an epic fragment, Calcutta: Das Gupta & Co.Francis Ledwidge, Songs of the Fields, Irish author published in the United KingdomJames Stephens, Irish author published in the United Kingdom:The Adventures of Seumas Beg; The Rocky Road to DublinSogns from the ClayGuillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Case d'armonsPaul Claudel, Corona benignitatis anni deiOscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, PoèmesPierre Reverdy, Poèmes en proseWalter Flex, Sonne und Schilde, GermanYvan Goll, Élegies internationales: Pamphlets contre la guerre, German poet in Switzerland writing in FrenchSir Muhammad Iqbal, Asrar-i-Khudi (Urdu: اسرار خودی) or The Secrets of the Self his first philosophical book of poetry, published in PersianVasily Kamensky, Stenka Razin (Стенька Разин), RussianWilhelm Klemm, Gloria: Kriegsgedichte aus dem Felde, GermanVladimir Mayakovsky, A Cloud in Trousers (Oblako v shtanakh), RussianNarasinghrao, Smaranasamhita, an elegy to his son, Indian, writing in GujaratiBarbu Nemțeanu, Stropi de soare, RomanianGeorg Trakl, Sebastian im Traum ("Sebastian in the Dream"); Austrian poet published in GermanyAwards and honors
Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 12 – Margaret Danner (died 1984), African-AmericanJanuary 15 – Chaganti Somayajulu (died 1994), Indian, Tegulu-language short-story writer and poetJanuary 31 – Thomas Merton (died 1968), American poet, author and monkMarch 12 – José Luis Rodríguez Vélez (died 1984), Panamanian composer, orchestra director, saxophonist, clarinetist and guitaristApril 21 – John Manifold (died 1985), AustralianApril 22 – Hem Barua (died 1977), Indian, Assamese-language poet and politicianMay 28 – Dorothy Auchterlonie (died 1991), AustralianMay 30 – Michael Thwaites (died 2005), Australian poet, academic, intelligence officer and activistMay 31 – Judith Wright (died 2000), AustralianJune 8Kayyar Kinhanna Rai (died 2015), IndianRuth Stone (died 2011), American poet, recipient of 2002 National Book Award and 2002 Wallace Stevens AwardJuly 1 – Alun Lewis (killed 1944 on active service), Welsh war poetJuly 7 – Margaret Walker (died 1998), African-American poet and novelistJuly 16 – David Campbell (died 1979), AustralianAugust – Bawa Balwant (died 1973), Indian, Punjabi poetAugust 4 – Patrick Anderson (died 1979), English-born CanadianAugust 28 – Claude Roy, pen name of Claude Orland (died 1997), French poet, novelist, essayist, art critic and journalist; an activist in the Communist Party until his expulsion in 1956November 3 – Eric Roach (suicide 1974), Caribbean poet from TobagoNovember 8 – George Sutherland Fraser (died 1980), Scottish-born poet and criticDecember 8 – Nikos Gatsos (died 1992), GreekDecember 22 – David Martin (died 1997), AustralianDecember 27 – John Cornford (killed 1936 in Spanish Civil War), EnglishDecember 31 – Sam Ragan (died 1996), American poet and journalist, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1982–1996Also:Nanina Alba (died 1968), African-AmericanAkhtarul Imam, Indian, Urdu-language poet in the "Halqa-i-Arba-i Zauq" movementK. S. Narasimha Swami, better known as "K.S. NA", Indian, Kannada-language poetManmohan, pen name of Gopal Narhar Natu, Indian, Marathi-language poetNand Lal Ambardar (died 1973), Indian, Kashmiri-language poetPalagummi Padmaraju (died 1983), short-story writer, poet, film-industry writerPrabhu Chugani, "Wafa", Indian, Sindhi-language poetRameshvar Shukla, pen name: Anchal, wrote in Khadi Boli and Braj Bhasa dialects of Hindi, poet, short-story writer and novelistSumitra Kumari Sinha, Indian, Hindi-language poet and short-story writerBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – James Elroy Flecker (born 1884), English poet, novelist and dramatist, from tuberculosis in SwitzerlandFebruary 8 – Takashi Nagatsuka 長塚 節 (born 1879), Japanese poet and novelistDecember 1 – Stuart Merrill (born 1863), American Symbolist poet writing in French, from heart diseaseAlsoHortensia Antommarchi (born 1850), Colombian poetEdmond Laforest (born 1876), Haitian French language poet, suicideV. C. Balakrishna Panikker (born 1889), Indian, Malayalam-language poetsee also "Poets and World War I" in the "Events" section and Rudyard Kipling poem "My Boy Jack", above
April 23Rupert Brooke, English poet and writer, 27, died of septic pneumonia from an infected mosquito bite while sailing with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force off the island of Lemnos in the Aegean on its way to GallipoliRobert W. Sterling, Scottish poet, 21, killed in actionMay 8 – Walter Lyon, Scottish war poet, 28, missing in actionMay 26 – Julian Grenfell, English war poet, 27, killed at YpresJuly 30 – Gerald William Grenfell, English war poet, 25, killed in actionSeptember 1 – August Stramm, German poet and playwright, 41, killed in action on the Eastern FrontOctober 13 – Charles Sorley, British poet, 20, shot in the head by a sniper, at the Battle of Loos in FranceDecember 23 – Roland Leighton, English war poet, 20, died of wounds in Casualty Clearing Station at Louvencourt, having been shot through the stomach by a sniper at Hébuterne 
