Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Suicide In The Trenches
... You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye ...
Glory Of Women
... you believe That chivalry redeems the war's disgrace ...
Does It Matter?
... For they know that you've fought for your country, ...
Dreamers
... they must win Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives ...
The Dug-Out
... . . . You are too young to fall asleep for ever ...
Elegy
... And death has found you, kind and gay ...
To My Brother
... Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame ...
Hero
... He thought how 'Jack', cold-footed, useless swine, ...
A Child's Prayer
... And Birds who love the twilight of the leaves, ...
The Kiss
... He spins and burns and loves the air, ...
Counter-Attack
... And then the rain began,the jolly old rain! A yawning soldier knelt against the bank, ...
Lamentations
... Moaned, shouted, sobbed, and choked, while he was kneeling ...
'They'
... 'They have challenged Death and dared him face to face ...
The Dragon & The Undying
... Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze, Vocal are they, like storm-bewilder'd seas ...
Base Details
... " And when the war is done and youth stone dead, ...