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Remembrance Poems and Readings

chosen and introduced by David Roberts

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The key traditional poems of remembrance: For the Fallen (They shall grow not old, We will remember them), I vow to Thee My Country, My Country, 'tis of Thee. Here in this God-given Land of Ours, In Flanders Fields, and dozens more including several by living servicemen.

​This is a collection of words for remembrance events, and thoughts about remembrance, war and peace, spanning over two thousand years. Amongst these traditional, ancient and new poems, prayers and readings there may be found many pieces suitable for twenty-first century Remembrance and Memorial events.

Contributors include Laurence Binyon, John McCrae, Samuel Francis Smith, Julia Ward Howe, John Milton, Christina Rosetti, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and many more.

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Paperback  

120 pages  7.75"x 5" approx.

ISBN 978-0-9528969-1-3 
Saxon Books
£11.95