Charles Sorley Quotes

• Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
  So be merry, so be dead.

  Charles Sorley

  War, Bed, Earth

  Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”

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• All the hills and vales along
  Earth is bursting into song,
  And the singers are the chaps
  Who are going to die perhaps.

  Charles Sorley

  Song, Singing, Earth

  Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”

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• When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.

  Charles Sorley

  Peace, Pain, Rain

  Charles Hamilton Sorley (2012). “Marlborough and Other Poems”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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