The Riddle

I dressed a lot of persons

I patched clothes to many others

The rich as well as the poor

I took off thorns

To the sick I pierced boils

I also pierced plenty of ears

Most people need me

They can’t do without me

I adorned too many brides

I made their grooms look handsome

So that they please their admirers

I protected the miserable

I covered and wormed them

With the suitable cloth

I cared a lot for the wrecked

I provided them with food in plenty

I realized later on

That I was doing only good

But as if I was digging in water

No profit coming in return

From the ungrateful man

Yet I kept accomplishing my duty

What I said is an example

I took it from our rich repertory

All the words I’ve used

Are about my doings

And those of the needle

Which remains naked.

ahcene mariche

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Poems in English 

• Two Hundred Years After by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• Twelve Months After by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• Trench Duty by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• Tree and Sky by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• Together by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• Today by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• To Victory by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• To My Brother by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• To His Dead Body by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• To Any Dead Officer by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• To a Very Wise Man by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• To a Childless Woman by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• Thrushes by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• ‘They’ by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• Their Frailty by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Tombstone-Maker by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Road by Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon

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