“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 (147 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joy-Bells (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells To the green-vista'd gladness of the past That changed us into ...
Tree and Sky (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels ...
The Investiture (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
GOD with a Roll of Honour in His hand Sits welcoming the heroes who have died, While sorrowless angels ranked ...
Goblin Revel (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
In gold and grey, with fleering looks of sin, I watch them come; by two, by three, by four, Advancing ...
Slumber-Song (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Sleep; and my song shall build about your bed A paradise of dimness. You shall feel The folding of tired ...
Falling Asleep (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Voices moving about in the quiet house: Thud of feet and a muffled shutting of doors: Everyone yawning. Only the ...
The Tombstone-Maker (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Against a sorrowing angel's breast, and said: 'You'd think so ...
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 ...
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 ...
South Wind (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Where have you been, South Wind, this May-day morning,- With larks aloft, or skimming with the swallow, Or with blackbirds ...
Arcady Unheeding (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Shepherds go whistling on their way In the spring season of the year; One watches weather-signs of day; One of ...
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 ... ...