Siegfried Sassoon

Here you will find thePoemAloneof poet Siegfried Sassoon

Alone

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.