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| 2051. | 'In the Pink' by Siegfried Sassoon | | So Davies wrote: ' This leaves me in the pink. '
Then scrawled his name: ' Your loving sweetheart Willie '
With crosses for a hug. He'd had a drin... |
| 2052. | Falling Asleep by Siegfried Sassoon | | Voices moving about in the quiet house:
Thud of feet and a muffled shutting of doors:
Everyone yawning. Only the clocks are alert.
Out in the ... |
| 2053. | An Old French Poet by Siegfried Sassoon | | When in your sober mood my body have ye laid
In sight and sound of things beloved, woodland and stream,
And the green turf has hidden the poor bon... |
| 2054. | A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon | | Three hours ago he blundered up the trench,
Sliding and poising, groping with his boots;
Sometimes he tripped and lurched against the walls
With... |
| 2055. | Picture-Show by Siegfried Sassoon | | And still they come and go: and this is all I know—
That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show,
Where wild or listless faces flicker on... |
| 2056. | The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon | | Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom
Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals
Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots
And turn ... |
| 2057. | The Imperfect Lover by Siegfried Sassoon | | I never asked you to be perfect—did I?—
Though often I’ve called you sweet, in the invasion
Of mastering love. I never prayed that you
Mig... |
| 2058. | Morning Express by Siegfried Sassoon | | Along the wind-swept platform, pinched and white,
The travellers stand in pools of wintry light,
Offering themselves to morn’s long, slanting ar... |
| 2059. | Companions by Siegfried Sassoon | | Leave not your bough, my slender song-bird sweet,
But pipe me now your roundelay complete.
Come, gentle breeze, and tarrying on your way,
Whis... |
| 2060. | Parted by Siegfried Sassoon | | Sleepless I listen to the surge and drone
And drifting roar of the town’s undertone;
Till through quiet falling rain I hear the bells
Tolling ... |
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