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Siegfried Sassoon's Poetry, by title

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  • 'Blighters'
    The House is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin 
    And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks 
    8 lines
  • 'In The Pink'
    So Davies wrote: ' This leaves me in the pink. '
    Then scrawled his name: ' Your loving sweetheart Willie '
    19 lines
  • 'They'
    The Bishop tells us: 'When the boys come back
    'They will not be the same; for they'll have fought
    12 lines, 3 comments
  • A Child's Prayer
    For Morn, my dome of blue,
    For Meadows, green and gay,
    11 lines
  • A Letter Home
    (To Robert Graves)
        I
    86 lines, 2 comments
  • A Mystic As Soldier
    I lived my days apart,
    Dreaming fair songs for God;
    14 lines
  • A Poplar And The Moon
    There stood a Poplar, tall and straight; 
    The fair, round Moon, uprisen late, 
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • A Subaltern
    He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze
    And fresh face slowly brightening to the grin
    15 lines
  • A Wanderer
    When Watkin shifts the burden of his cares
    And all that irked him in his bound employ,
    15 lines
  • A Whispered Tale
    I’d heard fool-heroes brag of where they’d been,
    With stories of the glories that they’d seen.
    14 lines
  • A Working Party
    Three hours ago he blundered up the trench,
    Sliding and poising, groping with his boots;
    48 lines, 4 comments
  • Absolution
    The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes 
    Till beauty shines in all that we can see. 
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Aftermath
    Have you forgotten yet?...
    For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • Alone
    I’ve listened: and all the sounds I heard
    Were music,—wind, and stream, and bird.
    14 lines, 11 comments
  • An Old French Poet
    When in your sober mood my body have ye laid
    In sight and sound of things beloved, woodland and stream,
    9 lines
  • Ancestors
    Behold these jewelled, merchant Ancestors,
    Foregathered in some chancellery of death;
    19 lines
  • Ancient History
    Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain,
    Shivered below his wind-whipped olive-trees;
    14 lines
  • Arcady Unheeding
    Shepherds go whistling on their way
    In the spring season of the year;
    8 lines
  • Arms And The Man
    Young Croesus went to pay his call 
    On Colonel Sawbones, Caxton Hall: 
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • At Carnoy
    Down in the hollow there’s the whole Brigade
    Camped in four groups: through twilight falling slow
    9 lines
  • At Daybreak
    I listen for him through the rain,
    And in the dusk of starless hours
    13 lines
  • At The Cenotaph
    I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
    Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
    13 lines
  • Atrocities
    You told me, in your drunken-boasting mood,
    How once you butchered prisoners. That was good!
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Attack
    AT dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun
    In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun,
    13 lines
  • Autumn
    October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves
    The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood
    9 lines
  • Banishment
    I am banished from the patient men who fight
    They smote my heart to pity, built my pride.
    15 lines
  • Base Details
    If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath
    I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Battalion-Relief
    ‘FALL in! Now get a move on.’ (Curse the rain.)
    We splash away along the straggling village,
    23 lines
  • Because We Are Going
    Because we are going from our wonted places
    To be task-ridden by one shattering Aim,
    13 lines
  • Before Day
    Come in this hour to set my spirit free
    When earth is no more mine though night goes out,
    15 lines
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