Books By George Orwell - Poems

Poems

While Orwell was not known for his poetry, he did compose several verses which have survived, including many written during his school days:

• "Awake! Young Men of England" (1914)
• "Ballade" (1929)
• "A Dressed Man and a Naked Man" (1933)
• "A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been" (1935)
• "Ironic Poem About Prostitution" (written prior to 1936)
• "Kitchener" (1916)
• "The Lesser Evil" (1924)
• "A Little Poem" (1935)
• "On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory" (1934)
• "Our Minds Are Married, but We Are Too Young" (1918)
• "The Pagan" (1918)
• "Poem from Burma" (1922–1927)
• "Romance" (1925)
• "Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days" (1933)
• "Suggested by a Toothpaste Advertisement" (1918–1919)
• "Summer-like for an Instant" (1933)
• "As One Non-Combatant to Another" (1943)