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Title: The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Release Date: January 22, 2005 [EBook #14757]
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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
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