The Redeemer (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep; It was past twelve on a mid-winter night, When peaceful folk ...
Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep; It was past twelve on a mid-winter night, When peaceful folk ...
Voices moving about in the quiet house: Thud of feet and a muffled shutting of doors: Everyone yawning. Only the ...
Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells To the green-vista'd gladness of the past That changed us into ...
The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying, And Yellow-Pressmen thronged the sunlit street To cheer the soldiers ...
(EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP) They are gathering round.... Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand, Shoals of low-jargoning men drift ...
The barrack-square, washed clean with rain, Shines wet and wintry-grey and cold. Young Fusiliers, strong-legged and bold, March and wheel ...
He seemed so certain 'all was going well', As he discussed the glorious time he'd had While visiting the trenches. ...
The road is thronged with women; soldiers pass And halt, but never see them; yet they're here- A patient crowd ...
Dark clouds are smouldering into red While down the craters morning burns. The dying soldier shifts his head To watch ...
Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they ...
Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they ...
Give me your hand, my brother, search my face; Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame; For ...
'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the Mother said, And folded up the letter that she'd read. 'The Colonel writes ...
'Good-morning; good-morning!' the General said When we met him last week on our way to the line. Now the soldiers ...
I Stood with the Dead, so forsaken and still: When dawn was grey I stood with the Dead. And my ...
I'd heard fool-heroes brag of where they'd been, With stories of the glories that they'd seen. But you, good simple ...
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