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Charles Hamilton Sorley

1895–1915

Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915) was a Scottish-born English poet, educated at Marlborough College. He was commissioned in the Suffolk Regiment in 1914 and was killed near Hulluch, in France, on 13 October 1915, aged twenty.

His only book, Marlborough and Other Poems, appeared posthumously in 1916. The poems here come from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920) and from the 1916 book itself (Cambridge, third edition).

Poems (38)

  1. Saints have adored the lofty soul of you
  2. Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat
  3. To Germany
  4. Marlborough
  5. Barbury Camp
  6. What You Will
  7. Rooks
  8. Rooks (II)
  9. Stones
  10. East Kennet Church at Evening
  11. Autumn Dawn
  12. Return
  13. Richard Jefferies (Liddington Castle)
  14. J. B.
  15. The Song of the Ungirt Runners
  16. German Rain
  17. Whom Therefore We Ignorantly Worship
  18. To Poets
  19. A hundred thousand million mites we go
  20. Deus Loquitur
  21. Two Songs from Ibsen’s Dramatic Poems: Brand
  22. Two Songs from Ibsen’s Dramatic Poems: Peer Gynt
  23. If I have suffered pain
  24. All the hills and vales along
  25. Le Revenant
  26. Lost
  27. Expectans Expectavi
  28. When you see millions of the mouthless dead
  29. There is such change in all those fields
  30. I have not brought my Odyssey
  31. In Memoriam S.C.W., V.C.
  32. A Call to Action
  33. Rain
  34. A Tale of Two Careers
  35. Peace
  36. The River
  37. The Seekers
  38. The Other Wise Man

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