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An Old French Poet by Siegfried Sassoon
When in your sober mood my body have ye laid
In sight and sound of things beloved, woodland and st..
Arms and the Man by Siegfried Sassoon
Young Croesus went to pay his call
On Colonel Sawbones, Caxton Hall:
And, though his wound was h..
A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
Three hours ago he blundered up the trench,
Sliding and poising, groping with his boots;
Sometim..
Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon
October’s bellowing anger breaks and cleaves
The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood
In whos..
Ancestors by Siegfried Sassoon
Behold these jewelled, merchant Ancestors,
Foregathered in some chancellery of death;
Calm, prov..
At Daybreak by Siegfried Sassoon
I listen for him through the rain,
And in the dusk of starless hours
I know that he will come ag..
A Wanderer by Siegfried Sassoon
When Watkin shifts the burden of his cares
And all that irked him in his bound employ,
Once more..
Ancient History by Siegfried Sassoon
Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain,
Shivered below his wind-whipped olive-trees;
Huddling sharp..
A Subaltern by Siegfried Sassoon
He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze
And fresh face slowly brightening to the grin
That se..
At Carnoy by Siegfried Sassoon
Down in the hollow there’s the whole Brigade
Camped in four groups: through twilight falling slow..
Arcady Unheeding by Siegfried Sassoon
Shepherds go whistling on their way
In the spring season of the year;
One watches weather-signs..
A Silly Poem by Spike Milligan
Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I’ll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B..
Alone In The Woods by Stevie Smith
Alone in the woods I felt
The bitter hostility of the sky and the trees
Nature has taught her crea..
Away, Melancholy by Stevie Smith
Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.
Are not the trees green,
The earth as green?
Does n..
Autumn by Stevie Smith
He told his life story to Mrs. Courtly
Who was a widow. ’Let us get married shortly’,
He said. ’I..
A Birthday Poem by Ted Kooser
Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head
in a black stanchion of trees,
waiting for..
After Years by Ted Kooser
Today, from a distance, I saw you
walking away, and without a sound
the glittering face of a glaci..
Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? by Thomas Hardy
"Ah, are you digging on my grave,
My loved one? -- planting rue?"
-- "No: yesterday he went to w..
A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.
Yet less for loss of your dear pres..
A Thunderstorm In Town by Thomas Hardy
(A Reminiscence, 1893)
She wore a ’terra-cotta’ dress,
And we stayed, because of the pelting sto..
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