At a Calvary near the Ancre

Poem by Wilfred Owen

"At a Calvary near the Ancre" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. The title references the Ancre, a tributary of the Somme. It was the scene of two notable battles in 1916. The poem is composed of three quatrains with rhyme scheme ABAB.

> One ever hangs where shelled roads part.
>  In this war He too lost a limb,
>  But His disciples hide apart;
>  And now the Soldiers bear with Him.

>  Near Golgotha strolls many a priest,
>  And in their faces there is pride
>  That they were flesh-marked by the Beast
>  By whom the gentle Christ's denied.

>  The scribes on all the people shove
>  And bawl allegiance to the state,
>  But they who love the greater love
>  Lay down their life; they do not hate.[1]

## References

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1. ^ Owen, Wilfred (1983). Stallworthy, Jon (ed.). The Complete Poems and Fragments. Vol. I: The poems. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 134\. ISBN 0701127155.

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Poems by Wilfred Owen

Poems (1920)|

* "A Terre"
* "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
* "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo"
* "Arms and the Boy"
* "The Dead-Beat"
* "Disabled"
* "Dulce et Decorum est"
* "Futility"
* "Insensibility"
* "Mental Cases"
* "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
* "Spring Offensive"
* "Strange Meeting"
* "Wild with All Regrets"

Other poems|

* "1914"
* "Asleep"
* "At a Calvary near the Ancre"
* "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole"
* "Elegy in April and September"
* "The End"
* "Has Your Soul Sipped?"
* "I Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson"
* "The Last Laugh"
* "The Letter"
* "Miners"
* "A New Heaven"
* "The Next War"
* "Soldier's Dream"
* "Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action"
* "To Eros"
* "Training"
* "With an Identity Disc"

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