Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Last Line: O sir, that christian souls should come to that!' Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement; First World War | ||||||||
HE primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Against a sorrowing angel's breast, and said: 'You'd think so much bereavement would have made 'Unusual big demands upon my trade. 'The War comes cruel hard on some poor folk; 'Unless the fighting stops I'll soon be broke.' He eyed the Cemetery across the road. 'There's scores of bodies out abroad, this while, 'That should be here by rights. They little know'd 'How they'd get buried in such wretched style.' I told him with a sympathetic grin, That Germans boil dead soldiers down for fat; And he was horrified. 'What shameful sin! 'O sir, that Christian souls should come to that!' | 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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