Siegfried Loraine Sassoon Good Poems

• 1. The Investiture
  God with a Roll of Honour in His hand
  Sits welcoming the heroes who have died,
  While sorrowless angels ranked on either side
  Stand easy in Elysium's meadow-land.
  ...
• 2. Lamentations
  I found him in the guard-room at the Base.
  From the blind darkness I had heard his crying
  And blundered in. With puzzled, patient face
  A sergeant watched him; it was no good trying
  ...
• 3. To Any Dead Officer
  Well, how are things in Heaven? I wish you'd say,
  Because I'd like to know that you're all right.
  Tell me, have you found everlasting day,
  Or been sucked in by everlasting night?
  ...
• 4. Together
  Splashing along the boggy woods all day,
  And over brambled hedge and holding clay,
  I shall not think of him:
  But when the watery fields grow brown and dim,
  ...
• 5. The General
  "Good-morning; good-morning!" the General said
  When we met him last week on our way to the line.
  Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
  And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
  ...
• 6. The Kiss
  To these I turn, in these I trust;
  Brother Lead and Sister Steel.
  To his blind power I make appeal;
  I guard her beauty clean from rust.
  ...
• 7. Stand-to: Good Friday Morning
  I'd been on duty from two till four.
  I went and stared at the dug-out door.
  Down in the frowst I heard them snore.
  "Stand-to!" Somebody grunted and swore.
  ...
• 8. Atrocities
  You told me, in your drunken-boasting mood,
  How once you butchered prisoners. That was good!
  I'm sure you felt no pity while they stood
  Patient and cowed and scared, as prisoners should.
  ...
• 9. Died Of Wounds
  His wet, white face and miserable eyes
  Brought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:
  But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fell
  His troubled voice: he did the business well.
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