Sara Teasdale: There Will Come Soft Rains Page 3 Siegfried Sassoon: Everyone Sang Page 4 Ruth Pitter: The Military Harpist Page 5 Marion Angus: Remembrance Day Page 7 Mahmoud Darwish: Murdered and Unknown Page 9 Wisława Szymborska: The End and the Beginning Page 10 Ivor Gurney: The Bugle Page 13 May Wedderburn Cannan: For a Girl Page 15 Ioan Alexandru: The End of the War Page 17 Amy Lowell: Convalescence Page 19 Sarah Maguire: The Pomegranates of Kandahar Page 20 Carola Oman: Ambulance Train Page 22 Alan Gillis: Progress Page 23 John Hewitt: From Freehold Page 24 William Shakespeare: Under the Greenwood Tree Page 28 Charlotte Mew: May, 1915 Page 29 John Balaban: In Celebration of Spring Page 30 Gerard Manley Hopkins: Peace Page 32 Charles Causley: At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux Page 33 Sean O'Brien: The Sunken Road Page 35 Wilfred Owen: Greater Love Page 37 Edna St Vincent Millay: Dirge Without Music Page 39 Siegfried Sassoon: Reconciliation Page 40 Walt Whitman: Reconciliation Page 41 Robert Graves: Two Fusiliers Page 42 Paul Muldoon: Truce Page 43 Simon Armitage: The Handshake Page 44 Sappho: To An Army Wife in Sardis Page 45 Edna St Vincent Millay: Conscientious Objector Page 46 Saadi Youssef: Night in Al-Hamra Page 47 Charlotte Mew: The Cenotaph Page 48 Dorothy Parker: Penelope Page 50 Leigh Hunt: Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel Page 51 Denise Levertov: Making Peace Page 52 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Stronghold Page 54 Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things Page 57 Carl Sandburg: Grass Page 58 Helen Waddell: April 20th, 1939 Page 59 Sherman Alexie: The Powwow at the End of the World Page 60 Michael Longley: Ceasefire Page 62 Margaret Sackville: Reconciliation Page 63 May Wedderburn Cannan: The Armistice Page 64 Edgell Rickword: War and Peace Page 66 Henry Vaughan: Peace Page 67 Thomas Hardy: Christmas: 1924 Page 68 Linda Pastan: At Gettysburg Page 69 C. K. Stead: Another Horatian Ode Page 71 Michael Longley: All of These People Page 73 Anonymous: Death Is Before Me Today Page 74 Rose Macaulay: Peace Page 75 Hugh McCrae: Song of the Rain Page 77 E. Hilton Young: Return Page 78 Godfrey Elton: The War Memorial Page 79 Margaret Postgate Cole: Afterwards Page 80 John Balaban: After Our War Page 82 Paul Dehn: Armistice Page 84 Michael Hamburger: After a War Page 85 Thomas Hardy: 'And There Was a Great Calm' Page 86 Douglas Dunn: Souvenirs of Versailles Page 89 Ivan V. Lalić: The Spaces of Hope Page 90 Roy McFadden: Post-War Page 91 Cecily Mackworth: En Route Page 93 Freda Laughton: The Evacuees Page 94 Herbert Read: 1945 Page 95 Edwin Muir: The Horses Page 96 Edmund Blunden: Ancre Sunshine Page 98 Imtiaz Dharker: Armistice Page 100 Kathleen Raine: Heroes Page 102 John Jarmain: El Alamein Page 103 Ralph Knevet: The Vote Page 105 Osbert Sitwell: Peace Celebration Page 107 Dorothy Una Ratcliffe: Remembrance Day in the Dales Page 108 Violet Jacob: The Field by the Lirk o' the Hill Page 109 Helen Mort: Armistice Page 110 Koichi Iijima: The End of the War to End All Wars Page 112 Eleanor Farjeon: Peace Page 114 Anonymous: Admonition to a Chief Page 116 George Herbert: Peace Page 117 Carl Sandburg: A. E. F. Page 119 Mary Studd: Paris, 1919 Page 120 Conrad Aiken: The Quarrel Page 121 Mary Jean Chan: Truce Page 123 Robert Herrick: The Coming of Good Luck Page 124 Seamus Heaney: From The Cure at Troy Page 125 Alice Oswald: Prayer Page 127 Jo Shapcott: Phrase Book Page 128 Edward Thomas: Thaw Page 130 Derek Walcott: The Season of Phantasmal Peace Page 131 Paul Muldoon: Armistice Day Page 133 Daljit Nagra: Where's Page 135 Emily Dickinson: 'Hope' Is the Thing with Feathers Page 136 Christina Rossetti: A Churchyard Song of Patient Hope Page 137 Edward Thomas: Adlestrop Page 138 Maura Dooley: Quiver Page 139 W. B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree Page 141 Henry Reed: The Return Page 142 Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne Page 145 Seiichi Niikuni: Anti-War Page 147 Zaffar Kunial: Poppy Page 148 Jackie Kay: Outlook Tower Page 151 Carol Ann Duffy: The Wound in Time Page 152 Acknowledgements Page 155 Index of Authors Page 161 Index of Titles and First Lines Page 163