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Charles Sorley Quotes

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

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

Charles Sorley
War, Bed, Earth
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of 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 Sorley
Song, Singing, Earth
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of 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 Sorley
Peace, Pain, Rain
Charles Hamilton Sorley (2012). “Marlborough and Other Poems”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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