(19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915 / Aberdeen, Scotland)

poet Charles Hamilton Sorley

Poems of Charles Hamilton Sorley

1. A Letter From the Trenches to a School Friend 4/16/2010
2. All the Hills and Vales Along 1/3/2003
3. Barbury Camp 1/3/2003
4. Expectans Expectavi 1/3/2003
5. Rooks 1/3/2003
6. Route March 5/9/2003
7. Saints Have Adored the Lofty Soul of You 1/3/2003
8. Such, Such Is Death 1/3/2003
9. The Song of the Ungirt Runners 1/3/2003
10. To Germany 1/3/2003
11. Two Sonnets 1/1/2004
12. When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead 1/3/2003

Expectans Expectavi

From morn to midnight, all day through,
I laugh and play as others do,
I sin and chatter, just the same
As others with a different name.

And all year long upon the stage
I dance and tumble and do rage
So vehemently, I scarcely see
The inner and eternal me.

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