Charles Hamilton Sorley Quotes

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If Goethe really died saying 'more light', it was very silly of him: what he wanted was more warmth.

Charles Hamilton Sorley

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.

Charles Hamilton Sorley

I do wish people would not deceive themselves by talk of a just war. There is no such thing as a just war. What we are doing is casting out Satan by Satan.

Charles Hamilton Sorley

We swing ungirded hips,
And lightened are our eyes,
The rain is on our lips,
We do not run for prize.

Charles Hamilton Sorley

All the hills and vales along
Earth is bursting into song,
And the singers are the chaps
Who are going to die perhaps.

Charles Hamilton Sorley

When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
So be merry, so be dead.

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Charles Hamilton Sorley

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Born: May 10, 1895

Died: October 13, 1915 (aged 20)

Bio: Charles Hamilton Sorley was a Scottish poet of World War I.

Known for:

Marlborough and Other Poems
MARLBOROUGH & OTHER POEMS

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