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,
... - 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.
... - 3. Two Sonnets
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Saints have adored the lofty soul of you.
Poets have whitened at your high renown.
... - 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.
... - 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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