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So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.

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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
Poet
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Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
Went
Like
Hushed
Wrongs
Secretly

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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
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For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.
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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
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Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.
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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law
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Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
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I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
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