Siegfried Sassoon Poems on God (14 Poems)
“The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still” (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
The rank stench of those bodies haunts me stillAnd I remember things I’d best forget.For now we’ve marched to a green, trenchless landTwelve miles from battering guns: along the grassBrown lines of tents are hives for snoring men;Wide, radiant water … Continue reading
A Letter Home (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
(To Robert Graves) I Here I’m sitting in the gloom Of my quiet attic room. France goes rolling all around, Fledged with forest May has crowned. And I puff my pipe, calm-hearted, Thinking how the fighting started, Wondering when we’ll … Continue reading
Wisdom (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
When Wisdom tells me that the world’s a speck Lost on the shoreless blue of God’s To-Day… I smile, and think, ‘For every man his way: The world’s my ship, and I’m alone on deck!’ And when he tells me … Continue reading
The Redeemer (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep; It was past twelve on a mid-winter night, When peaceful folk in beds lay snug asleep; There, with much work to do before the light, We lugged our clay-sucked boots as … Continue reading
A Mystic As Soldier (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I lived my days apart, Dreaming fair songs for God; By the glory in my heart Covered and crowned and shod. Now God is in the strife, And I must seek Him there, Where death outnumbers life, And fury smites … Continue reading
To Any Dead Officer (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Well, how are things in Heaven? I wish you’d say, Because I’d like to know that you’re all right. Tell me, have you found everlasting day, Or been sucked in by everlasting night? For when I shut my eyes your … Continue reading
The Old Huntsman (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I’ve never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years’ bargain for the Golden Fleece. ‘Twas a bad deal all round; and dear enough It cost me, what with my daft management, And the mean folk as owed … Continue reading
Storm and Sunlight (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I In barns we crouch, and under stacks of straw, Harking the storm that rides a hurtling legion Up the arched sky, and speeds quick heels of panic With growling thunder loosed in fork and clap That echoes crashing thro’ … Continue reading
A Subaltern (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze And fresh face slowly brightening to the grin That sets my memory back to summer days, With twenty runs to make, and last man in. He told me he’d been having … Continue reading
Concert Party (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
(EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP) They are gathering round…. Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand, Shoals of low-jargoning men drift inward to the sound- The jangle and throb of a piano … tum-ti-tum… Drawn by a lamp, they come Out … Continue reading
More Siegfried Sassoon Poetry (Based on Topics)
Night - War & Peace - Faces - Man - Light - Sadness - Mind - Death & Dying - Youth - Birds - Dreams - Sleep - Nature - Soldiers - World - Home - Life - God - Sense & Perception - Hell - View All Siegfried Sassoon Poems