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Quotes from Collected Poems — Siegfried Sassoon

1886–1967 England

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Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?

Collected Poems (1949)

Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
The armies who endured that sullen swamp.

Collected Poems (1949)

Selfless and ardent, resolute and gay,
So in this hour, in strange survival stands
Your ghost, whom I am powerless to repay.

Collected Poems (1949)

Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride
'Their name liveth for evermore' the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.

Collected Poems (1949)

Deep in my morning time he made his mark
And still he comes uncalled to be my guide
In devastated regions
When the brain has lost its bearings in the dark
And broken in it’s body’s pride
In the long campaign to which it had sworn allegiance.

Collected Poems (1949)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Siegfried Sassoon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.