Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REMORSE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit Last Line: Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
LOST in the swamp and welter of the pit, He flounders off the duck-boards; only he knows Each flash and spouting crash, -- each instant lit When gloom reveals the streaming rain. He goes Heavily, blindly on. And, while he blunders, 'Could anything be worse than this?' -- he wonders, Remembering how he saw those Germans run, Screaming for mercy among the stumps of trees: Green-faced, they dodged and darted: there was one Livid with terror, clutching at his knees... Our chaps were sticking 'em like pigs ... 'O hell!' He thought -- 'there's things in war one dare not tell Poor father sitting safe at home, who reads Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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