“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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
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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