Poems
02.09.2010 / 18.54 pm
 
Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English poet and author.
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Villon

They threw me from the gates: my matted hair
Was dank with dungeon wetness; my spent frame
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The Investiture

GOD with a Roll of Honour in His hand
Sits welcoming the heroes who have died,
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Golgotha

Through darkness curves a spume of falling flares
That flood the field with shallow, blanching light.
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Morning-land

Old English songs, you bring to me
A simple sweetness somewhat kin
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The Redeemer

Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep;
It was past twelve on a mid-winter night,
Rating: 5.00
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Dreamers

Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
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Dryads

When meadows are grey with the morn
In the dusk of the woods it is night:
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To My Brother

Give me your hand, my brother, search my face;
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame;
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To His Dead Body

When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried,
Groping for friendly hands, and clutched, and died,
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Vision

I love all things that pass: their briefness is
Music that fades on transient silences.
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Everyone Sang

Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
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Elegy

Your dextrous wit will haunt us long
Wounding our grief with yesterday.
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The Hawthorn Tree

Not much to me is yonder lane
Where I go every day;
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Haunted

Evening was in the wood, louring with storm.
A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool
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