The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
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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
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
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Table of Contents
Cover
Titlepage
THE WAR POEMS
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
THE WAR POEMS
Table of Contents
OF
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
Table of Contents
BY THE AUTHOR OF
THE OLD HUNTSMAN
AND COUNTER ATTACK
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1920
Dans la trêve désolée de cette matinée, ces hommes qui avaient été tenaillés par la fatigue, fouettés par la pluie, bouleversés par toute une nuit de tonnerre, ces rescapés des volcans et de l'inondation entrevoyaient à quel point la guerre, aussi hideuse au moral qu'au physique, non seulement viole le bon sens, avilit les grandes idées, commande tous les crimes—mais ils se rappelaient combien elle avait développé en eux et autour d'eux tous les mauvais instincts sans en excepter un seul; la méchanceté jusqu'au sadisme, l'égoïsme jusqu'à la férocité, le besoin de jouir jusqu'à la folie.
HENRI BARBUSSE.
(Le Feu.)
NOTE
Of these 64 poems, 12 are now published for the first time. The remainder are selected from two previous volumes.
CONTENTS
I
PRELUDE: THE TROOPS
DREAMERS
THE REDEEMER
TRENCH DUTY
WIRERS
BREAK OF DAY
A WORKING PARTY
STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING
IN THE PINK
THE HERO
BEFORE THE BATTLE
THE ROAD
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER
THE DREAM
AT CARNOY
BATTALION RELIEF
THE DUG-OUT
THE REAR-GUARD
I STOOD WITH THE DEAD
SUICIDE IN TRENCHES
ATTACK
COUNTER-ATTACK
THE EFFECT
REMORSE
IN AN UNDERGROUND DRESSING-STATION
DIED OF WOUNDS
II
THEY
BASE DETAILS
LAMENTATIONS
THE GENERAL
HOW TO DIE
EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS
FIGHT TO A FINISH
ATROCITIES
THE FATHERS
BLIGHTERS
GLORY OF WOMEN
THEIR FRAILTY
DOES IT MATTER?
SURVIVORS
JOY-BELLS
ARMS AND THE MAN
WHEN I'M AMONG A BLAZE OF LIGHTS
THE KISS
THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER
THE ONE-LEGGED MAN
RETURN OF THE HEROES
III
TWELVE MONTHS AFTER
TO ANY DEAD OFFICER
SICK LEAVE
BANISHMENT
AUTUMN
REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE
TOGETHER
THE HAWTHORN TREE
CONCERT PARTY
NIGHT ON THE CONVOY
A LETTER HOME
RECONCILIATION
MEMORIAL TABLET (GREAT WAR)
THE DEATH-BED
AFTERMATH
SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR
EVERYONE SANG
PRELUDE: THE TROOPS
Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom
Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals
Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots
And turn dulled, sunken faces to the sky
Haggard and hopeless. They, who have beaten down
The stale despair of night, must now renew
Their desolation in the truce of dawn,
Murdering the livid hours that grope for peace.
Yet these, who cling to life with stubborn hands,
Can grin through storms of death and find a gap
In the clawed, cruel tangles of his defence.
They march from safety, and the bird-sung joy
Of grass-green thickets, to the land where all
Is ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky
That hastens over them where they endure
Sad, smoking, flat horizons, reeking woods,
And foundered trench-lines volleying doom for