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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