PagineJohn McCrae was a Canadian doctor who served as a surgeon in the First World War. He wrote “In Flanders Fields” in May 1915 after a friend was killed near Ypres; the poem made the poppy a symbol of remembrance. He died of pneumonia in France in 1918.
Public-domain poems, free to read and print.
Source editions for the poems on this page (public domain):
Yes. John McCrae’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 8 of them here or as a flip book.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919).