“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 ...
Not much to me is yonder lane Where I go every day; But when there's been a shower of rain ...
There seemed a smell of autumn in the air At the bleak end of night; he shivered there In a ...
He woke; the clank and racket of the train Kept time with angry throbbings in his brain. Then for a ...
Shepherds go whistling on their way In the spring season of the year; One watches weather-signs of day; One of ...
You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers; Calm landscapes for emotion; star-lit lawns; And Youth against the sun-rise ... ...
Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath Chokes, and through drumming shafts of stifling death I stumble ...
There stood a Poplar, tall and straight; The fair, round Moon, uprisen late, Made the long shadow on the grass ...
Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth; What silly beggars they are to blunder in And scorch their ...
If you could crowd them into forty lines! Yes; you can do it, once you get a start; All that ...
Voices moving about in the quiet house: Thud of feet and a muffled shutting of doors: Everyone yawning. Only the ...
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the ...
Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit, He flounders off the duck-boards; only he knows Each flash and ...
When old Noah stared across the floods, Sky and water melted into one Looking-glass of shifting tides and sun. Mountain-tops ...
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels ...
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
All night the flares go up; the Dragon sings And beats upon the dark with furious wings; And, stung to ...
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