For November / May · 3poems & readings
Remembrance & Memorial Poems
In Flanders fields and after: the poems read at remembrance services, honoring those who served.
LengthForm
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae · 1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the sky
15 lines · rondeau
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1854
Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of Death
55 lines · narrative
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
W. B. Yeats · 1919
I know that I shall meet my fateSomewhere among the clouds above;Those that I fight I do not hate
16 lines · lyric