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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives. I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats, And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain, Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats, And mocked by hopeless longing to regain Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats, And going to the office in the train.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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English writer Beverley Nichols, best known for his popular gardening trilogy “Down the Garden Path” and his friendships with celebrity homosexuals #NoelCoward and #SiegfriedSassoon, was BOTD in 1899. #beverleynichols #bornonthisday #supergays
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English writer Beverley Nichols was BOTD in 1899. Born in Bristol, he was educated at Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union and editor of college magazine Isis. He served in…
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September 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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English solider, poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his searing poetic condemnations of World War One, was BOTD in 1886. After unhappy affairs with #StephenTennant and #IvorNovello, he married a woman, which didn’t end well. #siegfriedsassoon #sadgays #bornonthisday #warpoetry
Siegfried Sassoon
English solider, poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon was BOTD in 1886. Born in Matfield, Kent, to a wealthy middle class family, he studied history at Cambridge University, where he began writing …
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September 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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"In me the tiger sniffs the rose."

Poems: allpoetry.com/Siegfried-Sa...

✒️ #SiegfriedSassoon, English soldier, poet, and author, was #BOTD 8 September 1886. #Poetrt #Literature
September 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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"Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/siegfr...

✒ #SiegfriedSassoon, English soldier, poet, and author, #DOTD 1 September 1967. #Poetry #Literature
September 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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✒️ #OTD in the #History of #Poetry 18 Aug 1917, #WilfredOwen introduced himself to renowned war poet #SiegfriedSassoon at Edinburgh’s Craiglockhart War Hospital for shell-shocked soldiers. Developing a bond of mutual admiration, they helped one another improve their poetic craft.
August 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🔴 2024 The Voyage Home by Pat Barker published

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #August15 #WilfredOwen #SiegfriedSassoon #PatBarker
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Good morning #booksky! 🌞

🔴 1917 Poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon first met at Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh, go on to have an profound influence on each other's work (actual date 15-19 Aug)

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August 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight. Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
August 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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#ConflictPoetry #SiegfriedSassoon #WilfredOwen #antifascism
June 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Arbor Vitae (1959) by Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967)

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April 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Stream the episode now 🎧👉 Out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you like to listen.

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March 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A powerful #WW1poetry lesson plan for top juniors or #KS3 students. Creates a performance that would make a great assembly... #VEDay #WW1 #EduSky #education #history #SiegfriedSassoon

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WW1 Poetry Into Performance
Explores the narrative poem ‘The Hero’ by Siegfried Sassoon that uses the fear of one young soldier to illustrate the futility of war
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February 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Goes into my top 50 #8.5/10
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January 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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In the summer I spent a day by Siegfried Sassoon sketching and painting Mells churchyard. #pagesfrommysketchbook #SiegfriedSassoon #painting #sketching #WW1 #warpoet #poet #art #Mells #Somerset
November 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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I said to downcast eyes—
Look up; accept surprise
Which waits, all welcomings.
I said to shuttered ears—
Heed how earth music nears
On wonder's wind-swept strings.

#SiegfriedSassoon (1968) #poem #poetry
October 9, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Siegfried Sassoon in Keatsian mood here! #Spring #poetry #SiegfriedSassoon
March 21, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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Then this, by #SiegfriedSassoon, and think of #soldiers and #civilians who died like that for this: #MemorialDay2016
November 3, 2024 at 12:49 PM