Siegfried Sassoon Poems (147 Poems)
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“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 green, trenchless landTwelve miles from battering guns: along the grassBrown lines of tents are hives for snoring men;Wide, radiant water … Continue reading
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 amber light, Soaring and quivering in the wings of sleep. Silence and safety; and his mortal shore Lipped by the … Continue reading
David Cleek (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I cannot think that Death will press his claim To snuff you out or put you off your game: You’ll still contrive to play your steady round, Though hurricanes may sweep the dismal ground, And darkness blur the sandy-skirted green … Continue reading
Picture-Show (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
And still they come and go: and this is all I know- That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show, Where wild or listless faces flicker on their way, With glad or grievous hearts I’ll never understand Because Time … Continue reading
At Daybreak (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I listen for him through the rain, And in the dusk of starless hours I know that he will come again; Loth was he ever to forsake me: He comes with glimmering of flowers And stir of music to awake … Continue reading
The Effect (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
‘The effect of our bombardment was terrific. One man told me he had never seen so many dead before.’ -War Correspondent. ‘He’d never seen so many dead before.’ They sprawled in yellow daylight while he swore And gasped and lugged … Continue reading
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 inward to the sound- The jangle and throb of a piano … tum-ti-tum… Drawn by a lamp, they come Out … Continue reading
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 Youth that went to fight Four long years past, discovering pride and power. You die but in our dreams, who … Continue reading
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 crossing of city-ways: And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow Like clouds in … Continue reading
To His Dead Body (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried, Groping for friendly hands, and clutched, and died, Like racing smoke, swift from your lolling head phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled. Yet, though my dreams that throng the darkened … Continue reading
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