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THE WAR POEMS OF SIEGFRIED SASSOON

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THE WAR POEMS OF SIEGFRIED SASSOON

1919


LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Dans la trêve désolée de cette matinée, ces hommes qui avaient été
tenaillés par la fatigue, fouettés par la pluie, bouleversés par toute
une nuit de tonnerre, ces rescapés des volcans et de l'inondation
entrevoyaient à quel point la guerre, aussi hideuse au moral qu'au
physique, non seulement viole le bon sens, avilit les grandes idées,
commande tous les crimes—mais ils se rappelaient combien elle avait
développé en eux et autour d'eux tous les mauvais instincts sans en
excepter un seul; la méchanceté jusqu'au sadisme, l'égoïsme jusqu'à la
férocité, le besoin de jouir jusqu'à 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
DREAMERS
THE REDEEMER
TRENCH DUTY
WIRERS
BREAK OF DAY
A WORKING PARTY
STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING
IN THE PINK
THE HERO
BEFORE THE BATTLE
THE ROAD
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER
THE DREAM
AT CARNOY
BATTALION RELIEF
THE DUG-OUT
THE REAR-GUARD
I STOOD WITH THE DEAD
SUICIDE IN TRENCHES
ATTACK
COUNTER-ATTACK
THE EFFECT
REMORSE
IN AN UNDERGROUND DRESSING-STATION
DIED OF WOUNDS
BASE DETAILS
LAMENTATIONS
THE GENERAL
EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS
FIGHT TO A FINISH
ATROCITIES
THE FATHERS
BLIGHTERS
GLORY OF WOMEN
HEIR FRAILTY
DOES IT MATTER?
SURVIVORS
JOY-BELLS
WHEN I'M AMONG A BLAZE OF LIGHTS
THE KISS
THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER
THE ONE-LEGGED MAN
RETURN OF THE HEROES
TWELVE MONTHS AFTER
TO ANY DEAD OFFICER
SICK LEAVE
BANISHMENT
AUTUMN
REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE
TOGETHER
THE HAWTHORN TREE
A LETTER HOME
THE DEATH-BED
AFTERMATH
SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR
EVERYONE SANG

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