The Poet as Hero (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented, Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me why Of my old, silly sweetness ...
You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented, Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me why Of my old, silly sweetness ...
If you could crowd them into forty lines! Yes; you can do it, once you get a start; All that ...
When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried, Groping for friendly hands, and clutched, and died, Like racing smoke, swift ...
You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do... I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you. I ...
I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad ...
Cry out on Time that he may take away Your cold philosophies that give no hint Of spirit-quickened flesh; fall ...
I heard a clash, and a cry, And a horseman fleeing the wood. The moon hid in a cloud. Deep ...
I love all things that pass: their briefness is Music that fades on transient silences. Winds, birds, and glittering leaves ...
Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim, Whose voices make the emptiness of light A windy palace. Quavering ...
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