Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

ALONE by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

Poet Analysis

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.




Home: PoetryExplorer.net