Charles Hamilton Sorley Away Poems

  • 1.
    I have not brought my Odyssey
    With me here across the sea;
    But you'll remember, when I say
    How, when they went down Sparta way,
    ...
  • 2.
    All the hills and vales along
    Earth is bursting into song,
    And the singers are the chaps
    Who are going to die perhaps.
    ...
  • 3.
    Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat:
    Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean,
    A merciful putting away of what has been.

    ...
  • 4.
    I

    Saints have adored the lofty soul of you.
    Poets have whitened at your high renown.
    ...
  • 5.
    There where the rusty iron lies,
    The rooks are cawing all the day.
    Perhaps no man, until he dies,
    Will understand them, what they say.
    ...
  • 6.
    All the hills and vales along
    Earth is bursting into song,
    And the singers are the chaps
    Who are going to die perhaps.
    ...
Total 6 Away Poems by Charles Hamilton Sorley

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