Siegfried Sassoon Quotes - Page 2

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• How innocent were these Trees, that in
  Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze,
  Stood garlanded and gay;
  Who now in sundown glow
  Of serious colour clad confront me with their show
  As though resigned and sad,
  Trees, who unwhispering stand umber, bronze, gold;
  Pavilioning the land for one grown tired and old;
  Elm, chestnut, aspen and pine, I am merged in you,
  Who tell once more in tones of time,
  Your foliaged farewell.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Fall, Farewell, Tired

  Siegfried Sassoon (1956). “Sequences”

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• And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad
  Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts
  That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  War, Mad, Tree

  Siegfried Sassoon (2004). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Angel, Winter, Night

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Voice, White, Nurse

  Siegfried Sassoon, “Died Of Wounds”

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• O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Mother, Dream, Son

  Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Hero, Lines, Fierce

  'Base Details' (1918)

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• I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Reading, Want, Return

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”

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• In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Average, Years, Records

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• Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Men

  Siegfried Sassoon (1937). “The Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Sherston's Progress”

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• EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of sight. Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Song, Heart, Dark

  War Poems (1919) "Everyone Sang"

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