In one pome by this author, "fatuous sunbeams toil to break earth's sleep" on a fallen dead body, and the narrator of another poem by this author notes "Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery," when encountering his killer in Hell. This author of "Futility" wrote a work which opens "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle." This author of "Strange Meeting" wrote a poem about men "Bent double like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge," which ends with the line "pro patria mori." For 10
In one pome by this author, "fatuous sunbeams toil to break earth's sleep" on a fallen dead body, and the narrator of another poem by this author notes "Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery," when encountering his killer in Hell. This author of "Futility" wrote a work which opens "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle." This author of "Strange Meeting" wrote a poem about men "Bent double like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge," which ends with the line "pro patria mori." For 10 points, name this World War I poet of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum Est."
In one pome by this author, "fatuous sunbeams toil to break earth's sleep" on a fallen dead body, and the narrator of another poem by this author notes "Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery," when encountering his killer in Hell.
Wilfrid Owen