Picture-Show

By Siegfried Sassoon

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547122388

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Despatched as ‘shell-shocked’ to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades.

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Siegfried Sassoon

Picture-Show

EAN 8596547122388

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

PICTURE-SHOW

RECONCILIATION

CONCERT PARTY

NIGHT ON THE CONVOY

THE DUG-OUT

BATTALION-RELIEF

IN AN UNDERGROUND DRESSING-STATION

I STOOD WITH THE DEAD

MEMORIAL TABLET

ATROCITIES

TO LEONIDE MASSINE

MEMORY

TO A VERY WISE MAN

EARLY CHRONOLOGY

ELEGY

MIRACLES

THE GOLDSMITH

DEVOTION TO DUTY

ANCIENT HISTORY

SPORTING ACQUAINTANCES

WHAT THE CAPTAIN SAID AT THE POINT-TO-POINT

CINEMA HERO

FANCY DRESS

MIDDLE-AGES

THE PORTRAIT

BUTTERFLIES

WRAITHS

PHANTOM

THE DARK HOUSE

IDYLL

PARTED

LOVERS

SLUMBER-SONG

THE IMPERFECT LOVER

VISION

TO A CHILDLESS WOMAN

AFTERMATH

FALLING ASLEEP

PRELUDE TO AN UNWRITTEN MASTERPIECE

LIMITATIONS

EVERYONE SANG

PICTURE-SHOW

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And still they come and go: and this is all I know—

That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show,

Where wild or listless faces flicker on their way,

With glad or grievous hearts I'll never understand

Because Time spins so fast, and they've no time to stay

Beyond the moment's gesture of a lifted hand.

And still, between the shadow and the blinding flame,

The brave despair of men flings onward, ever the same

As in those doom-lit years that wait them, and have been …

And life is just the picture dancing on a screen.

RECONCILIATION

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When you are standing at your hero's grave,

Or near some homeless village where he died,

Remember, through your heart's rekindling pride,

The German soldiers who were loyal and brave.

Men fought like brutes; and hideous things were done;

And you have nourished hatred, harsh and blind.

But in that Golgotha perhaps you'll find

The mothers of the men