Wilfred Edward Salter Owen Spirit Poems

  • 1.
    (Another version of "A Terre".)

    To Siegfried Sassoon

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  • 2.
    It seemed that out of the battle I escaped
    Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
    Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.
    Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
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  • 3.
    I

    Happy are men who yet before they are killed
    Can let their veins run cold.
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  • 4.
    I, too, saw God through mud--
    The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled.
    War brought more glory to their eyes than blood,
    And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
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  • 5.
    (Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.)



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  • 6.
    This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, dominion or power,

    except War.
    Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry.
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Total 6 Spirit Poems by Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

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