Siegfried Sassoon: Quotes about the dead

Siegfried Sassoon was English poet, diarist and memoirist. Explore interesting quotes on dead.

Siegfried Sassoon: 46 quotes 1 like

“Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.”

Siegfried Sassoon

"On Passing the New Menin Gate" (1927-1928)
Collected Poems (1949)
Context: Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride
'Their name liveth for evermore' the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.

Dead

“Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?”

Siegfried Sassoon

"On Passing the New Menin Gate" (1927-1928)
Collected Poems (1949)
Context: Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate, —
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp;
Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
The armies who endured that sullen swamp.

Dead

“I'd say — "I used to know his father well;
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
And when the war is done and youth stone dead
I'd toddle safely home and die — in bed.”

Siegfried Sassoon

"Base Details"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

War , Youth , Home , Dead