"Wild With All Regrets" is a poem by

Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced b ...

. It deals with the atrocities of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. Owen wrote the poem in December 1917, while stationed at

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, and sent it to his friend Siegfried Sassoon. The original manuscript shows a dedication to Sassoon, accompanied by the question "May I?". Owen later expanded the poem into " A Terre". The poem's title paraphrases a line of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1847 poem " The Princess": "Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;"

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