Charles Hamilton Sorley Long Poems

• 1. A Letter From The Trenches To A School Friend
  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,
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• 2. Such, Such Is Death
  Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat:
  Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean,
  A merciful putting away of what has been.
  
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• 3. Two Sonnets
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  Saints have adored the lofty soul of you.
  Poets have whitened at your high renown.
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• 4. Expectans Expectavi
  From morn to midnight, all day through,
  I laugh and play as others do,
  I sin and chatter, just the same
  As others with a different name.
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• 5. Barbury Camp
  We burrowed night and day with tools of lead,
  Heaped the bank up and cast it in a ring
  And hurled the earth above. And Caesar said,
  “Why, it is excellent. I like the thing.”
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