“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 ...
Siegfried Sassoon Poems on Night (40 Poems)
Stand-To: Good Friday Morning (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I'd been on duty from two till four. I went and stared at the dug-out door. Down in the frowst ...
Conscripts (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
'Fall in, that awkward squad, and strike no more Attractive attitudes! Dress by the right! The luminous rich colours that ...
Twelve Months After (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Hullo! here's my platoon, the lot I had last year. 'The war'll be over soon.' 'What 'opes?' 'No bloody fear!' ...
Concert Party (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
(EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP) They are gathering round.... Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand, Shoals of low-jargoning men drift ...
To Any Dead Officer (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Well, how are things in Heaven? I wish you'd say, Because I'd like to know that you're all right. Tell ...
Night on the Convoy (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
(ALEXANDRIA-MARSEILLES) Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck A gleam of stars looks down. Long blurs of black, The ...
A Working Party (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Three hours ago he blundered up the trench, Sliding and poising, groping with his boots; Sometimes he tripped and lurched ...
In Barracks (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
The barrack-square, washed clean with rain, Shines wet and wintry-grey and cold. Young Fusiliers, strong-legged and bold, March and wheel ...
The Old Huntsman (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad ...
The Working Party (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Three hours ago he blundered up the trench, Sliding and poising, groping with his boots; Sometimes he tripped and lurched ...
Banishment (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I am banished from the patient men who fight They smote my heart to pity, built my pride. Shoulder to ...
To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour, Leaping along the verge of death and night, You show me dauntless ...
A Poplar and the Moon (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
There stood a Poplar, tall and straight; The fair, round Moon, uprisen late, Made the long shadow on the grass ...
Before the Battle (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Music of whispering trees Hushed by a broad-winged breeze Where shaken water gleams; And evening radiance falling With reedy bird-notes ...
The Choral Union (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He staggered in from night and frost and fog And lampless streets: he'd guzzled like a hog And drunk till ...
A Letter Home (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
(To Robert Graves) I Here I'm sitting in the gloom Of my quiet attic room. France goes rolling all around, ...
Today (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
This is To-day, a child in white and blue Running to meet me out of Night who stilled The ghost ...
Two Hundred Years After (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Trudging by Corbie Ridge one winter's night, (Unless old hearsay memories tricked his sight) Along the pallid edge of the ...
The Death-Bed (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls; Aqueous like floating rays of ...
Ancestors (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Behold these jewelled, merchant Ancestors, Foregathered in some chancellery of death; Calm, provident, discreet, they stroke their beards And move ...
Invocation (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath Chokes, and through drumming shafts of stifling death I stumble ...
Aftermath (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Have you forgotten yet?... For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at ...
The Troops (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots ...
Thrushes (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim, Whose voices make the emptiness of light A windy palace. Quavering ...
Wirers (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
'Pass it along, the wiring party's going out'- And yawning sentries mumble, 'Wirers going out.' Unravelling; twisting; hammering stakes with ...
Song-Books of the War (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
In fifty years, when peace outshines Remembrance of the battle lines, Adventurous lads will sigh and cast Proud looks upon ...
Daybreak In A Garden (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I heard the farm cocks crowing, loud, and faint, and thin, When hooded night was going and one clear planet ...
The Last Meeting (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
Alone (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I've listened: and all the sounds I heard Were music,-wind, and stream, and bird. With youth who sang from hill ...