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    Marlborough & Other Poems: "But until the peace, the storm, The Darkness and the thunder and the rain"
    Marlborough & Other Poems: "But until the peace, the storm, The Darkness and the thunder and the rain"
    Marlborough & Other Poems: "But until the peace, the storm, The Darkness and the thunder and the rain"
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    Marlborough & Other Poems: "But until the peace, the storm, The Darkness and the thunder and the rain"

    By Charles Sorley

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    Charles Hamilton Sorley was born on May 19th, 1895 in Aberdeen. His family moved to Cambridge when Sorley was five and his education later continued at Marlborough College (1908-13) where he was an excellent debater.

    From here he won a scholarship to Oxford but decided to spend a year in Germany beforehand. It was a fateful decision. War clouds had gathered over Europe and when war was declared Sorley was interned, for one night, and then instructed to leave Germany.

    Sorley returned to England and immediately signed up to serve as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Suffolk Regiment. He arrived in France in May, 1915 and, by the same August, had been promoted to Captain.

    On October 13th 1915, at the Battle of Loos, Charles Hamilton Sorley was killed by a sniper’s bullet to the head.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateOct 7, 2018
    ISBN9781787801851
    Marlborough & Other Poems: "But until the peace, the storm, The Darkness and the thunder and the rain"

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      Marlborough & Other Poems - Charles Sorley

      Marlborough & Other Poems by Charles Sorley

      Charles Hamilton Sorley was born on May 19th, 1895 in Aberdeen.  His family moved to Cambridge when Sorley was five and his education later continued at Marlborough College (1908-13) where he was an excellent debater. 

      From here he won a scholarship to Oxford but decided to spend a year in Germany beforehand.  It was a fateful decision. War clouds had gathered over Europe and when war was declared Sorley was interned, for one night, and then instructed to leave Germany.

      Sorley returned to England and immediately signed up to serve as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Suffolk Regiment.  He arrived in France in May, 1915 and, by the same August, had been promoted to Captain.

      On October 13th 1915, at the Battle of Loos, Charles Hamilton Sorley was killed by a sniper’s bullet to the head.

      From far away there comes a Voice,

      Singing its song across the sea—

      A song to make man's heart rejoice—

      Of Marlborough and the Odyssey.

      A voice that sings of Now and Then,

      Of minstrel joys and tiny towns.

      Of flowering thyme and fighting men.

      Of Sparta's sands and Marlborough's Downs.

      God grant, dear Voice, one day again

      We see those Downs in April weather.

      And snuff the breeze, and smell the rain.

      And stand in C House Porch together!

      Index of Contents

      Preface

      Marlborough 

      Barbury Camp

      What you will

      Rooks

      Rooks (II)

      Stones

      East Kennet Church at Evening

      Autumn Dawn

      Return

      Richard Jefferies

      J. B. 

      The Other Wise Man

      The Song of the Ungirt Runners

      German Rain

      Whom Therefore We Ignorantly Worship

      To Poets

      A Hundred Thousand Million Mites We Go

      Deus loquitur

      Two Songs from Ibsen's Dramatic Poems

      If I Have Suffered Pain

      To Germany

      All the Hills and Vales Along

      Le Revenant

      Lost

      Expectans Expectavi 

      TWO SONNETS

      I - Saints Have Adored the Lofty Soul of You

      II - Such, Such is Death: No triumph: No defeat

      A Sonnet - When you see millions of the Mouthless Dead

      There is Such Change in All Those Fields

      I Have Not Brought My Odyssey

      In Memoriam S.C.W., V.C

      Behind the Lines

      EARLIER POEMS

      A Call to Action

      Rain

      A Tale of Two Careers

      Peace

      The River

      The Seekers 

      PREFACE

      What was said concerning the author in the preface to the first edition may be repeated here. He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19 May 1895. From 1900 onwards his home was in Cambridge. He was at Marlborough College from September 1908 till December 1913, when he was elected to a scholarship at University College, Oxford. After leaving school he spent a little more than six months in Germany, returning home on the outbreak of war. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the Seventh (Service) Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment in August 1914, Lieutenant in November, and Captain in the following August. His battalion was sent to France on 30 May. He was killed in action near Hulluch on 13 October 1915. Being made perfect in a little while, he fulfilled long years.

      Many readers have asked for further information about the author or contributions from his pen. I am not able to give all that is asked for; but in this edition I have done what I can to meet the wishes of my correspondents by appending to the poems a certain number of illustrations in prose. With the exception of a few sentences from an early essay, these prose passages are all taken from his letters to his family and friends. They have

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