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The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

by Sassoon Siegfried

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Siegfried Sassoon was a wonderful poet and writer, he created many masterpieces… but it was Great War with it horrors and pains that arose in him his great and unique talent, made him write his best things and gave him world fame… If you hold this book, you will soon read his best poems and enjoy many beautiful moments.

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...tricked his sight), Along the pallid edge of the quiet skyHe watched a nosing lorry grinding on, And straggling files of men; when these were gone, A double limber and six mules went by, Hauling the rations up through ruts and mudTo trench-lines digged two hundred years ago. Then darkness hid them with a rainy scud, And soon he saw the village lights below. But when he'd told his tale, an old man saidThat _he'd_ seen soldiers pass along that hill;"Poor, silent things, they were the English deadWho came to fight in France and got their fill. "THE DREAMIMoonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scentOf summer gardens; these can bring you allThose dreams that in the starlit silence fall:Sweet songs are full of odours. While I wentLast night in drizzling dusk along a lane, I passed a squalid farm; from byre and middenCame the rank smell that brought me once againA dream of war that in the past was hidden. IIUp a disconsolate straggling village streetI saw the tired troops trudge: I heard...