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Born in September 8, 1886 / Died in September 1, 1967 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Siegfried Sassoon

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Repression of War Experience

... and yet You sit and gnaw your nails, and let your pipe out, ...

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Secret Music

... To the world’s end I went, and found ...

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A Letter Home

... (To Robert Graves) I Here I'm sitting in the gloom ...

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Limitations

... and the sun Will strike the old flaming wonder from the waters ...

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Idyll

... Not from the past you’ll come, but from that deep ...

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Died of Wounds

... ‘We’ll never take it, and it’s always raining ...

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The Death-Bed

... then the pain Leapt like a prowling beast, and gripped and tore ...

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Aftermath

... ... Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget ...

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Slumber-Song

... Through drowned and glimmering colour, Time shall be ...

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What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point

... But we finished full of running, and quite sound: ...

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Blighters

... ‘We’re sure the Kaiser loves our dear old Tanks!’ I’d like to see a Tank come down the stalls, ...

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Attack

... Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud ...

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Wisdom

... And dream, ‘The world’s my field, and I’m the lark, ...

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Memorial Tablet

... Two bleeding years I fought in France, for Squire: ...

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Wirers

... Stride hither and thither, whispering, tripped by clutching snare ...