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Title: The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Author: Siegfried Sassoon

Release Date: January 22, 2005 [EBook #14757]

Language: English

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THE WAR POEMS OF SIEGFRIED SASSOON

1919

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Dans la treve desolee de cette matinee, ces hommes qui avaient ete
tenailles par la fatigue, fouettes par la pluie, bouleverses par toute
une nuit de tonnerre, ces rescapes des volcans et de l'inondation
entrevoyaient a quel point la guerre, aussi hideuse au moral qu'au
physique, non seulement viole le bon sens, avilit les grandes idees,
commande tous les crimes--mais ils se rappelaient combien elle avait
developpe en eux et autour d'eux tous les mauvais instincts sans en
excepter un seul; la mechancete jusqu'au sadisme, l'egoisme jusqu'a la
ferocite, le besoin de jouir jusqu'a la folie.

HENRI BARBUSSE.

(_Le Feu._)

NOTE

Of these 64 poems, 12 are now published for the first time. The
remainder are selected from two previous volumes.

CONTENTS

I

PRELUDE: THE TROOPS 11

DREAMERS 13

THE REDEEMER 14

TRENCH DUTY 16

WIRERS 17

BREAK OF DAY 18

A WORKING PARTY 21

STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING 24

"IN THE PINK" 25

THE HERO 26

BEFORE THE BATTLE 27

THE ROAD 28

TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER 29

THE DREAM 30

AT CARNOY 32

BATTALION RELIEF 33

THE DUG-OUT 35

THE REAR-GUARD 36

I STOOD WITH THE DEAD 38

SUICIDE IN TRENCHES