Severn and Somme

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Ivor Gurney In Year : 1917

Book Language: English

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Preface
To Certain Comrades
The Fire Kindled
To the Poet Before Battle
Maisemore
Afterwards
Carol
Strange Service
Serenity
The Signaller's Vision
The Mother
To England - A Note
Bach and the Sentry
Letters
Strafe
Acquiescence
The Strong Thing
Scots
To an Unknown Lady
Song and Pain
Purple and Black
West Country
Firelight
The Estaminet
Song
Ballad of the Three Spectres
Communion
Time and the Soldier
Influences
After-Glow
Hail and Farewell
Praise
Winter Beauty
Song of Pain and Beauty
Spring. Rouen, May 1917
June-To-Come
"Hark, Hark, The Lark"
Song at Morning
Trees
Requiem
Sonnets 1917 : 1. For England
2. Pain
3. Servitude
4. Home-Sickness
5. England the Mother

The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area around the River Somme in northern France with the natural beauty of the valley of the River Severn in his native Gloucestershire. - Summary by Alan Mapstone