"December stillness, teach me through your trees That……" — Siegfried Sassoon
"December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads."
—
Siegfried Sassoon
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
23 Quotes by Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon has 23 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.
-
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost…
-
The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
-
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
-
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels…
-
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
-
His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid…
-
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the…
-
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War…
-
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
-
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong…
-
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
See all 23 quotes by Siegfried Sassoon »
More Along Quotes
This quote is filed under Along Quotes,
one of 5,353 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
-
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,…
— Darren Aronofsky
-
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
-
You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of…
— Michelle Bachelet
-
I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.
— Michele Bachmann
-
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
-
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
— Alec Baldwin
-
It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast,…
— Christian Bale
-
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
-
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
— Charles Baudelaire
-
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw…
— Kim Basinger
-
After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be…
— Bob Beauprez
See all 5,353 Along Quotes »