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Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon
- If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.‘Base Details’ (1918) - Does it matter?—losing your sight?…
There's such splendid work for the blind;
And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the light.‘Does it Matter?’ (1918) - Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom.‘Everyone Sang’ (1919) - The song was wordless; the singing will never be done.‘Everyone Sang’ (1919)
- ‘He's a cheery old card,’ grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.But he did for them both by his plan of attack.‘The General’ (1918) - Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,—
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?‘On Passing the New Menin Gate’ (1928) - Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride
‘Their name liveth for ever’ the Gateway claims.‘On Passing the New Menin Gate’ (1928); see Anonymous
