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"I. Peace"
"III. The Dead"

By Rupert Brooke
Originally published in 1918. Excerpted from Rupert Brooke: The Collected Poems, fourth revised edition, 1987

"I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

"Sonnet X"
"Sonnet XI"

By Alan Seeger
Excerpted from Poems, 1916

"Strange Meeting"
"Anthem for Doomed Youth"
"Dulce Et Decorum Est"

By Wilfred Owen
Originally published in 1920. Excerpted from Wilfred Owen: War Poems and Others, 1973