Wilfred Edward Salter Owen Thought Poems
- 1. Wild With All Regrets
(Another version of "A Terre".)
To Siegfried Sassoon
... - 2. Disabled
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,
... - 3. Strange Meeting
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,
... - 4. Insensibility
I
Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold.
... - 5. A Terre
(Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.)
... - 6. Strange Meeting *another Version*
Earth's wheels run oiled with blood. Forget we that.
Let us lie down and dig ourselves in thought.
Beauty is yours and you have mastery,
Wisdom is mine, and I have mystery.
... - 7. Preface
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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