Counter-Attack and Other Poems Quotes

“Mute in that golden silence hung with green,
Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes
Remembrance of all beauty that has been,
And stillness from the pools of Paradise.
”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems

“They march from safety, and the bird-sung joy
Of grass-green thickets, to the land where all
Is ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems

“Alone he staggered on until he found
Dawn's ghost that filtered down a shafted stair
To the dazed, muttering creatures underground
Who hear the boom of shells in muffled sound.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems

“In bitter safety I awake, unfriended;
And while the dawn begins with slashing rain
I think of the Battalion in the mud.
‘When are you going out to them again?
Are they not still your brothers through our blood?”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems

“Let no one ever from henceforth say a word in any way countenancing war. It is dangerous even to speak of how here and there the individual may gain some hardship of soul by it. For war is hell and those who institute it are criminals.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems

“He’s a cheery old card”, grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.

But he did for them both by his plan of attack. (The General)”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems