“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 ...
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Siegfried Sassoon Poems (147 Poems)
How to Die (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Dark clouds are smouldering into red While down the craters morning burns. The dying soldier shifts his head To watch ...
What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I've had a good bump round; my little horse Refused the brook first time, Then jumped it prime; And ran ...
To a Childless Woman (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do... I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you. I ...
Sick Leave (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm,- They come, the homeless ones, the noiseless dead. While the dim charging ...
Fight to a Finish (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying, And Yellow-Pressmen thronged the sunlit street To cheer the soldiers ...
Dryads (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
When meadows are grey with the morn In the dusk of the woods it is night: The oak and the ...
Night-Piece (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Ye hooded witches, baleful shapes that moan, Quench your fantastic lanterns and be still; For now the moon through heaven ...
Prelude to an Unwritten Masterpiece (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers; Calm landscapes for emotion; star-lit lawns; And Youth against the sun-rise ... ...
The One-Legged Man (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Propped on a stick he viewed the August weald; Squat orchard trees and oasts with painted cowls; A homely, tangled ...
Blighters (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
The House is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks Of harlots shrill ...
Enemies (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He stood alone in some queer sunless place Where Armageddon ends. Perhaps he longed For days he might have lived; ...
The Heritage (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Cry out on Time that he may take away Your cold philosophies that give no hint Of spirit-quickened flesh; fall ...
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 ...
The Dark House (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Dusk in the rain-soaked garden, And dark the house within. A door creaked: someone was early To watch the dawn ...
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 ...
Wraiths (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
They know not the green leaves; In whose earth-haunting dream Dimly the forest heaves, And voiceless goes the stream. Strangely ...
Reconciliation (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
When you are standing at your hero's grave, Or near some homeless village where he died, Remember, through your heart's ...
Attack (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
AT dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun, Smouldering through spouts of ...
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 ...
Blind (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
His headstrong thoughts that once in eager strife Leapt sure from eye to brain and back to eye, Weaving unconscious ...
Storm and Sunlight (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I In barns we crouch, and under stacks of straw, Harking the storm that rides a hurtling legion Up the ...
The Dream (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I Moonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scent Of summer gardens; these can bring you all Those dreams that in ...
Battalion-Relief (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
'FALL in! Now get a move on.' (Curse the rain.) We splash away along the straggling village, Out to the ...
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 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 ...
Wisdom (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
When Wisdom tells me that the world's a speck Lost on the shoreless blue of God's To-Day... I smile, and ...
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!' ...
Haunted (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the ...
Dream-Forest (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Where sunshine flecks the green, Through towering woods my way Goes winding all the day. Scant are the flowers that ...