“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 ...
You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented, Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me why Of my old, silly sweetness ...
(To Robert Graves) I Here I'm sitting in the gloom Of my quiet attic room. France goes rolling all around, ...
When I was young my heart and head were light, And I was gay and feckless as a colt Out ...
Well, how are things in Heaven? I wish you'd say, Because I'd like to know that you're all right. Tell ...
O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour, Leaping along the verge of death and night, You show me dauntless ...
You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers; Calm landscapes for emotion; star-lit lawns; And Youth against the sun-rise ... ...
Your dextrous wit will haunt us long Wounding our grief with yesterday. Your laughter is a broken song; And death ...
In me, past, present, future meet To hold long chiding conference. My lusts usurp the present tense And strangle Reason ...
No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk. Of course they're 'longing ...
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