Parted (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Sleepless I listen to the surge and drone And drifting roar of the town's undertone; Till through quiet falling rain ...
Sleepless I listen to the surge and drone And drifting roar of the town's undertone; Till through quiet falling rain ...
He seemed so certain 'all was going well', As he discussed the glorious time he'd had While visiting the trenches. ...
In the grey summer garden I shall find you With day-break and the morning hills behind you. There will be ...
I lived my days apart, Dreaming fair songs for God; By the glory in my heart Covered and crowned and ...
October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood In whose lament I hear a voice ...
Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall ...
Along the wind-swept platform, pinched and white, The travellers stand in pools of wintry light, Offering themselves to morn's long, ...
Some Brave, awake in you to-night, Knocked at your heart: an eagle's flight Stirred in the feather on your head. ...
The road is thronged with women; soldiers pass And halt, but never see them; yet they're here- A patient crowd ...
His wet white face and miserable eyes Brought nurses to him more than groans and sighs: But hoarse and low ...
When I was young my heart and head were light, And I was gay and feckless as a colt Out ...
'This job's the best I've done.' He bent his head Over the golden vessel that he'd wrought. A bird was ...
Behold these jewelled, merchant Ancestors, Foregathered in some chancellery of death; Calm, provident, discreet, they stroke their beards And move ...
Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain, Shivered below his wind-whipped olive-trees; Huddling sharp chin on scarred and scraggy ...
'Fall in, that awkward squad, and strike no more Attractive attitudes! Dress by the right! The luminous rich colours that ...
Come in this hour to set my spirit free When earth is no more mine though night goes out, And ...
He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls; Aqueous like floating rays of ...
I cannot think that Death will press his claim To snuff you out or put you off your game: You'll ...
And still they come and go: and this is all I know- That from the gloom I watch an endless ...
I listen for him through the rain, And in the dusk of starless hours I know that he will come ...
'The effect of our bombardment was terrific. One man told me he had never seen so many dead before.' -War ...
(EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP) They are gathering round.... Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand, Shoals of low-jargoning men drift ...
O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour, Leaping along the verge of death and night, You show me dauntless ...
Have you forgotten yet?... For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at ...
When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried, Groping for friendly hands, and clutched, and died, Like racing smoke, swift ...
I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad ...
Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells To the green-vista'd gladness of the past That changed us into ...
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels ...
GOD with a Roll of Honour in His hand Sits welcoming the heroes who have died, While sorrowless angels ranked ...
In gold and grey, with fleering looks of sin, I watch them come; by two, by three, by four, Advancing ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories