“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 ...
The rank stench of those bodies haunts me stillAnd I remember things I'd best forget.For now we've marched to a ...
(To Robert Graves) I Here I'm sitting in the gloom Of my quiet attic room. France goes rolling all around, ...
When Wisdom tells me that the world's a speck Lost on the shoreless blue of God's To-Day... I smile, and ...
Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep; It was past twelve on a mid-winter night, When peaceful folk ...
I lived my days apart, Dreaming fair songs for God; By the glory in my heart Covered and crowned and ...
Well, how are things in Heaven? I wish you'd say, Because I'd like to know that you're all right. Tell ...
I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad ...
I In barns we crouch, and under stacks of straw, Harking the storm that rides a hurtling legion Up the ...
He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze And fresh face slowly brightening to the grin That sets my ...
(EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP) They are gathering round.... Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand, Shoals of low-jargoning men drift ...
GOD with a Roll of Honour in His hand Sits welcoming the heroes who have died, While sorrowless angels ranked ...
He staggered in from night and frost and fog And lampless streets: he'd guzzled like a hog And drunk till ...
Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim, Whose voices make the emptiness of light A windy palace. Quavering ...
The Bishop tells us: 'When the boys come back 'They will not be the same; for they'll have fought 'In ...
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