Charles Hamilton Sorley Death Poems

  • 1.
    All the hills and vales along
    Earth is bursting into song,
    And the singers are the chaps
    Who are going to die perhaps.
    ...
  • 2.
    Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat:
    Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean,
    A merciful putting away of what has been.

    ...
  • 3.
    When you see millions of the mouthless dead
    Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
    Say not soft things as other men have said,
    That you'll remember. For you need not so.
    ...
  • 4.
    I

    Saints have adored the lofty soul of you.
    Poets have whitened at your high renown.
    ...
  • 5.
    All the hills and vales along
    Earth is bursting into song,
    And the singers are the chaps
    Who are going to die perhaps.
    ...
Total 5 Death Poems by Charles Hamilton Sorley

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