Jessie Pope's War Poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 13, 2025

In Category - Lyric

Authors: Jessie Pope In Year : 1915

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Jessie Pope's War Poems

The K.A. Boys
"No!"
Play the Game
A Royal Cracksman
Lights Out!
The Outpost
To a Taube
Ware Wire!
The Nut
De Wet
An Over-lord
Socks
The Zeppelin Armada
Comrades in Arm-lets
A Cossack Charge
The War Budget
Captive Conquerors
Captain von Muller
The Two Goliaths
The Blackest Lie
A Sing-Song
The Longest Odds
A Dumb Appeal
The Call
Little and Good
Marching to Germany
The Silent Camp
Loot
"Bobs"

Jessie Pope published these poems during the early months of the First World War. They were very popular at the time and the author received many letters of support and gratitude including some from men serving at the Front. The poems illustrate the patriotic and optimistic (and perhaps rather naive) view of the war which many people had at the time. Later soldier poets like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who had personal experience of the conflict, painted a grimmer picture. Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” was initially dedicated to Pope ("to a certain lady poetess") as a direct rebuttal of her view of the war. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)