Today (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
This is To-day, a child in white and blue Running to meet me out of Night who stilled The ghost ...
This is To-day, a child in white and blue Running to meet me out of Night who stilled The ghost ...
I In barns we crouch, and under stacks of straw, Harking the storm that rides a hurtling legion Up the ...
Where sunshine flecks the green, Through towering woods my way Goes winding all the day. Scant are the flowers that ...
When old Noah stared across the floods, Sky and water melted into one Looking-glass of shifting tides and sun. Mountain-tops ...
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
Dusk in the rain-soaked garden, And dark the house within. A door creaked: someone was early To watch the dawn ...
I love all things that pass: their briefness is Music that fades on transient silences. Winds, birds, and glittering leaves ...
I Fires in the dark you build; tall quivering flames In the huge midnight forest of the unknown. Your soul ...
He seemed so certain 'all was going well', As he discussed the glorious time he'd had While visiting the trenches. ...
Come in this hour to set my spirit free When earth is no more mine though night goes out, And ...
He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls; Aqueous like floating rays of ...
Shepherds go whistling on their way In the spring season of the year; One watches weather-signs of day; One of ...
I've listened: and all the sounds I heard Were music,-wind, and stream, and bird. With youth who sang from hill ...
When in your sober mood my body have ye laid In sight and sound of things beloved, woodland and stream, ...
'This job's the best I've done.' He bent his head Over the golden vessel that he'd wrought. A bird was ...
Cry out on Time that he may take away Your cold philosophies that give no hint Of spirit-quickened flesh; fall ...
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the ...
Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging ...
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