Poems by Siegfried Sassoon

October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves
The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood
In who...

In fifty years, when peace outshines
Remembrance of the battle lines,
Adventurous lads will s...

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the loneso...

No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain
Have caused their stammering, disconnected...

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun
In the wild purple of the glowering sun,
Smouldering ...