(1886 - 1967 / Kent / England)

poet Siegfried Sassoon
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Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

1. “The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still” 3/31/2010
2. A Child's Prayer 3/31/2010
3. A Child's Prayer 1/3/2003
4. A Letter Home 1/3/2003
5. A Mystic As Soldier 1/3/2003
6. A Poplar and the Moon 1/3/2003
7. A Subaltern 1/3/2003
8. A Wanderer 1/3/2003
9. A Whispered Tale 1/3/2003
10. A Working Party 1/1/2004
11. Absolution 1/3/2003
12. Aftermath 1/3/2003
13. Alone 1/3/2003
14. An Old French Poet 1/3/2003
15. Ancestors 1/3/2003
16. Ancient History 1/3/2003
17. Arcady Unheeding 1/3/2003
18. Arms and the Man 1/3/2003
19. At Carnoy 1/3/2003
20. At Daybreak 1/3/2003

The Hawthorn Tree

Not much to me is yonder lane
Where I go every day;
But when there’s been a shower of rain
And hedge-birds whistle gay,
I know my lad that’s out in France
With fearsome things to see
Would give his eyes for just one glance
At our white hawthorn tree.

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