Songs of a Campaign is a poetry collection by Australian poet and writer Leon Gellert, published by Angus and Robertson, in 1917.
"[2] A writer in The Sydney Morning Herald was rather effusive in their praise: "The Songs show a correctness and the fondness for classical allusion that one associates with academic verse, but have qualities of their own which make all other prize poems one has read of all other universities schoolboy exercises by comparison.
These verses, written in trench and hospital, are extraordinarily fine; indeed, it is not too much to say that they surpass all the other poetry hitherto inspired by that great adventure, and it is satisfactory to think that the Anzacs have supplied its best interpreter.
"[3] The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "In 1917 he published Songs of a Campaign which won the University of Adelaide's Bundey prize for poetry and established Gellert as the soldier-poet of the day.
In eloquent poems such as 'Through a Porthole', 'Patience', 'The Burial', 'The Diggers' and 'Attack at Dawn', Gellert recorded the dignity and courage of the soldier caught haplessly in the futility of war.