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Charles Hamilton Sorley
(1895 - 1915)

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Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen in 1895. The son of the professor of moral philosophy at Aberdeen University, Sorley was extremely intelligent and won a scholarship to Marlborough College. In 1913 Sorley decided to spend a year in Germany before taking up the offer of a place at Uni .. .. more >>

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"Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
So be merry, so be dead."
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915), Scottish poet. All the Hills and Vales Along (l. 43-44). . . Oxford Book of War Poetry, The. Jon Stallworthy, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.

"Earth that bore with joyful ease
Hemlock for Socrates,
Earth that blossomed and was glad
'Neath the cross that Christ had,
Shall rejoice and blossom too
When the bullet reaches you."
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915), Scottish poet. All the Hills and Vales Along (l. 21-26). . . Oxford Book of War Poetry, The. Jon Stallworthy, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.

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Charles Sorley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean Moorcroft Wilson (Ed.), The Collected Poems of Charles Hamilton Sorley, Cecil Woolf, London 1985, ISBN 0-900821-53-1 ...
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Charles Sorley
Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen in 1895. ... Charles Hamilton Sorley was killed by a sniper at the Battle of Loos on 13th October, 1915. ...
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First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Charles Hamilton Sorley
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RPO -- Selected Poetry of Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
See also The Poems and Selected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, ed. Hilda D. Spear (Dundee: Blackness Press, 1978; PR 6037 O7A6 1978). ...
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