Base Details If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death. You'd see me with my puffy petulant face, Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, Reading the Roll of Honour.... Blind Alley - 329 psl.autoriai: W. L. George - 1919 - 336 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Siegfried Sassoon - 1918 - 88 psl.
...Rhine." I watched them toddle through the door These impotent old friends of mine. BASE DETAILS IF I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd...stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die in bed. THE GENERAL "GOOD-MORNING; good-morning!" the General said When we met him last week on our way to... | |
| Siegfried Sassoon - 1918 - 80 psl.
...Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap," I'd say"I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily...done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and diein bed. THE GENERAL "GOOD-MORNING; good-morning!" the General said When we met him last week... | |
| 1924 - 132 psl.
...hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fiSts, Flounders in mud. O Jesu, make it sTtop ! BASE DETAILS IF I were fierce and bald and short of breath, I'd...stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die in bed. DOES IT MATTER? DOES it matter ? losing your legs ? . . . For people will always be kind, And you... | |
| Vera Meynell - 1925 - 378 psl.
...jokes in Music-Halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. Siegfried Sassoon. BASE DETAILS IF! were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live...stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die in bed. Siegfried Sassoon. ON A POET* LAUREATE HE had written praises of a regicide ; He had written praises... | |
| H. G. Widdowson - 1992 - 248 psl.
...the base. This finds expression in poems of bitter irony. The following is an example: Base Details If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd...stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die in bed. Again, this authorized poem can be set alongside the derived poem A Costly Exercise for the purpose... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 psl.
...Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death, (1. 1 -3) 385 POETRY QUOTATIONS 386 4 trove with Gods. (1. 49-50) CELIA THAXTER ("LAIGHTON") (1835-1894) The Sandpiper \ Acro (1. 9-10) FF; HelP; MMA; MoBrPo; OxBSP; SoSe Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime Rise and... | |
| David Gutmann - 1994 - 340 psl.
...me with my puffy petulant face, Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, Reading the Roll of Honor. "Poor young chap," I'd say "I used to know his...stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die in bed. SIEGFRIED SASSOON, 1886-1967* . hus far, our findings are based on two kinds of fantasy: fantasy... | |
| 1995 - 164 psl.
...served that hasn't found some change.' And the Bishop said: 'The ways of God are strange!' Base Details If I were fierce and bald and short of breath, I'd...stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed. The General 'Good-morning; good-morning!' the General said When we met him last week on our way to... | |
| Dave Brown - 1998 - 172 psl.
...Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, Reading the Roll of Honour, "Poor young chap, " I'd say "/ used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily...stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die in bed. The memory is fading, Doctor. Your war cost 65,000 Canadian lives, but was followed a generation later... | |
| Joan Murray - 2001 - 148 psl.
...me with my puffy petulant face, Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, . Reading the Roll of Honor. "Poor young chap," I'd say "I used to know his...stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die in bed. The Inner Part Louis SIMPSON W hen they had won the war And for the first time in history Americans... | |
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