Secret Music (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And ...
I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And ...
His wet white face and miserable eyes Brought nurses to him more than groans and sighs: But hoarse and low ...
Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight, (Under Lord Derby's Scheme). I died in hell- (They called it ...
Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep; It was past twelve on a mid-winter night, When peaceful folk ...
I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad ...
I am banished from the patient men who fight They smote my heart to pity, built my pride. Shoulder to ...
Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots ...
Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit, He flounders off the duck-boards; only he knows Each flash and ...
I never asked you to be perfect-did I?- Though often I've called you sweet, in the invasion Of mastering love. ...
He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze And fresh face slowly brightening to the grin That sets my ...
There seemed a smell of autumn in the air At the bleak end of night; he shivered there In a ...
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And ...
We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, ...
I'd heard fool-heroes brag of where they'd been, With stories of the glories that they'd seen. But you, good simple ...
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