Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALONE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON


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First Line: I've listened: and all the sounds I heard
Last Line: I've thought!' -- and darkness hides my day.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings


I'VE listened: and all the sounds I heard
Were music, -- wind, and stream, and bird.
With youth who sang from hill to hill
I've listened: my heart is hungry still.

I've looked: the morning world was green;
Bright roofs and towers of town I've seen;
And stars, wheeling through wingless night.
I've looked: and my soul yet longs for light.

I've thought: but in my sense survives
Only the impulse of those lives
That were my making. Hear me say
'I've thought!' -- and darkness hides my day.






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