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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967


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Read More About Siegfried Loraine Sassoon below poetry list
Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Letter Home. (To Robert Graves) Here I'm sitting in the gloom 74337
2: A Working Party Three hours ago he blundered up the trench, 50266
3: Aftermath Have you forgotten yet?... 23305
4: Arms And The Man Young Croesus went to pay his call 16325
5: At Carnoy Down in the hollow there's the whole Brigade 1916 8298
6: Atrocities You told me, in your drunken-boasting mood, 12289
7: Attack At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun 13339
8: Autumn October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves 9322
9: Banishment I am banished from the patient men who fight. 14309
10: Base Details If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, 10258
11: Battalion Relief Fall in! Now, get a move on!" (Curse the rain.) 23263
12: Before The Battle Music of whispering trees 1916 13319
13: Blighters The house is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin 8290
14: Break Of Day There seemed a smell of autumn in the air 56336
15: Concert Party They are gathering round ... 1918 21308
16: Conscripts Fall in, that awkward squad, and strike no more 30264
17: Counter-Attack We'd gained our first objective hours before 39278
18: Dead Musicians From you, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, 27368
19: Died Of Wounds His wet, white face and miserable eyes 12298
20: Does It Matter? Does it matter? - losing your leg? ... 15319
21: Dreamers Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, 14359
22: Editorial Impressions He seemed so certain "all was going well," 19282
23: Everyone Sang Everyone suddenly burst out singing; 10249
24: Fight To A Finish The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying, 12305
25: Glory Of Women You love us when we're heroes, home on leave, 14305
26: Haunted Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. 4317
27: How To Die Dark clouds are smouldering into red 16320
28: I Stood With The Dead I stood with the Dead, so forsaken and still: 12318
29: In An Underground Dressing-Station Quietly they set their burden down: he tried 8312
30: In Barracks The barrack-square, washed clean with rain, 16284
31: In The Pink So Davies wrote: "This leaves me in the pink." 18295
32: Invocation Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath 16251
33: Joy-Bells Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells 12301
34: Lamentations I found him in the guard-room at the Base. 10318
35: Memorial Tablet Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight 14295
36: Night On The Convoy Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck 1918 22252
37: Prelude: The Troops Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom 26256
38: Reconciliation When you are standing at your hero's grave, 1918 8253
39: Remorse Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit, 14280
40: Repression Of War Experience Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth; 39273
41: Return Of The Heroes A lady watches from the crowd, 10330
42: Sick Leave When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm, 13283
43: Song-Books Of The War In fifty years, when peace outshines 24300
44: Stand-To: Good Friday Morning I'd been on duty from two till four. 13316
45: Suicide In The Trenches I knew a simple soldier boy 13297
46: Survivors No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain 1917 10257
47: The Death-Bed He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped 42294
48: The Dragon And The Undying All night the flares go up; the Dragon sings 1415
49: The Dream Moonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scent 38276
50: The Dug-Out Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, 8283
51: The Effect He'd never seen so many dead before. 18321
52: The Fathers Snug at the club two fathers sat, 14275
53: The General Good-morning; good-morning!" the General said 7246
54: The Hawthorn Tree Not much to me is yonder lane 13286
55: The Hero Jack fell as he'd have wished," the Mother said, 18282
56: The Investiture God with a Roll of Honour in His hand 14272
57: The Kiss To these I turn, in these I trust; 12310
58: The One-Legged Man Propped on a stick he viewed the August weald; 12321
59: The Portrait I watch you, gazing at me from the wall, 2412
60: The Rear-Guard Groping along the tunnel, step by step, 25274
61: The Road The road is thronged with women; soldiers pass 18252
62: The Tombstone-Maker He primmed his loose red mouth, and leaned his head 14296
63: The Triumph When life was a cobweb of stars for Beauty who came 8260
64: Their Frailty He's got a Blighty wound. He's safe; and then 12256
65: They The Bishop tells us: "When the boys come back 12273
66: Thrushes Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim, 10240
67: To Any Dead Officer Well, how are things in Heaven? I wish you'd say, 40272
68: To Victory Return to greet me, colours that were my joy, 1612
69: Together Splashing along the boggy woods all day, 14265
70: Trench Duty Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake, 14248
71: Trench Duty Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake, 14277
72: Twelve Months After Hullo! here's my platoon, the lot I had last year. 14276
73: Two Hundred Years After Trudging by Corbie Ridge one winter's night, 14256
74: When I'm Among A Blaze Of Lights ... When I'm among a blaze of lights, 14261
75: Wirers Pass it along, the wiring party's going out 13300




About:
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work.


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