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Stand-To: Good Friday Morning by Siegfried Sassoon
I’d been on duty from two till four.
I went and stared at the dug-out door.
Down in the frowst I..
Sick Leave by Siegfried Sassoon
When I’m asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm,—
They come, the homeless ones, the noiseless dead...
Song-Books of the War by Siegfried Sassoon
In fifty years, when peace outshines
Remembrance of the battle lines,
Adventurous lads will sigh a..
Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
I
In barns we crouch, and under stacks of straw,
Harking the storm that rides a hurtling legion..
South Wind by Siegfried Sassoon
Where have you been, South Wind, this May-day morning,—
With larks aloft, or skimming with the swa..
Stretcher Case by Siegfried Sassoon
He woke; the clank and racket of the train
Kept time with angry throbbings in his brain.
Then fo..
So Fair is She by Spike Milligan
So fair is she!
So fair her face
So fair her pulsing figure
Not so fair
The maniacal stare
Of..
Summer Dawn by Spike Milligan
My sleeping children are still flying dreams
in their goose-down heads.
The lush of the river si..
Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith
The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena
By indulging native appetites played was..
Selecting A Reader by Ted Kooser
First, I would have her be beautiful,
and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest momen..
Snake by Theodore Roethke
I saw a young snake glide
Out of the mottled shade
And hang, limp on a stone:
A thin mouth, and a..
She At His Funeral by Thomas Hardy
THEY bear him to his resting-place--
In slow procession sweeping by;
I follow at a stranger’s spac..
She, To Him by Thomas Hardy
WHEN you shall see me lined by tool of Time,
My lauded beauties carried off from me,
My eyes no lo..
She, To Him IV by Thomas Hardy
THIS love puts all humanity from me;
I can but maledict her, pray her dead,
For giving love and ge..
Shelley's Skylark (The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March) by Thomas Hardy
Somewhere afield here something lies
In Earth’s oblivious eyeless trust
That moved a poet to pro..
Song of Hope by Thomas Hardy
O sweet To-morrow! -
After to-day
There will away
This sense of sorrow.
Then let us borrow
..
She Hears The Storm by Thomas Hardy
There was a time in former years--
While my roof-tree was his--
When I should have been distress..
Sapphic Fragment by Thomas Hardy
"Thou shalt be--Nothing."--Omar Khayyam.
"Tombless, with no remembrance."--W. Shakespeare.
Dea..
Song of the Soldier's Wifes. by Thomas Hardy
I
At last! In sight of home again,
Of home again;
No more to range and roam again
As at th..
San Sebastian by Thomas Hardy
And your sunny years with a gracious wife
Have brought you a daughter dear.
"I watched her to-da..
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