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 ...
I've listened: and all the sounds I heard Were music,-wind, and stream, and bird. With youth who sang from hill ...
Voices moving about in the quiet house: Thud of feet and a muffled shutting of doors: Everyone yawning. Only the ...
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 dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence steaming Down a canal; it drew the dizzy landscape after; ...
In fifty years, when peace outshines Remembrance of the battle lines, Adventurous lads will sigh and cast Proud looks upon ...
Along the wind-swept platform, pinched and white, The travellers stand in pools of wintry light, Offering themselves to morn's long, ...
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
I love all things that pass: their briefness is Music that fades on transient silences. Winds, birds, and glittering leaves ...
I Fires in the dark you build; tall quivering flames In the huge midnight forest of the unknown. Your soul ...
The glorying forest shakes and swings with glancing Of boughs that dip and strain; young, slanting sprays Beckon and shift ...
Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth; What silly beggars they are to blunder in And scorch their ...
I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And ...
In the grey summer garden I shall find you With day-break and the morning hills behind you. There will be ...
Have you forgotten yet?... For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at ...
When Wisdom tells me that the world's a speck Lost on the shoreless blue of God's To-Day... I smile, and ...
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