{"id":73,"date":"2010-01-20T01:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T01:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=73"},"modified":"2024-05-18T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:44:34","slug":"dreamers-siegried-sassoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/dreamers-siegried-sassoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Siegfried_Sassoon_by_George_Charles_Beresford_1915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Siegfried_Sassoon_by_George_Charles_Beresford_1915.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Siegfried_Sassoon_by_George_Charles_Beresford_1915-213x300.jpg 213w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 427px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 427\/600;\" \/><br \/>\nDREAMERS<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers are citizens of death&#8217;s grey land,<br \/>\nDrawing no dividend from time&#8217;s to-morrows.<br \/>\nIn the great hour of destiny they stand,<br \/>\nEach with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.<br \/>\nSoldiers are sworn to action; they must win<br \/>\nSome flaming, fatal climax with their lives.<br \/>\nSoldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin<br \/>\nThey think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.<\/p>\n<p>I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats,<br \/>\nAnd in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain,<br \/>\nDreaming of things they did with balls and bats,<br \/>\nAnd mocked by hopeless longing to regain<br \/>\nBank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,<br \/>\nAnd going to the office in the train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siegfried Sassoon was a British poet born Sept. 8, 1886. He died in 1967. Sassoon was served in World War I. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sassoon","category-war-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}