Severn and Somme

by Gurney, Ivor; Thornton, Ronald K.

• ISBN13: 9781857543483
• ISBN10: 1857543483
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

This volume includes Gurney's early small volumes of verse, "Severn and Somme" (1917) and "War's Embers" (1919).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	10	(1)
A Brief Chronology	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(4)
SEVERN & SOMME
Title page of first edition	17	(2)
Preface	19	(2)
To Certain Comrades	21	(1)
The Fire Kindled	22	(1)
To the Poet before Battle	23	(1)
Maisemore	23	(1)
Afterwards	24	(1)
Carol	25	(1)
Strange service	26	(1)
Serenity	27	(1)
The Signaller's Vision	27	(1)
The Mother	28	(1)
To England---A Note	28	(1)
Bach and the Sentry	29	(1)
Letters	29	(1)
Strafe	29	(1)
Acquiescence	30	(1)
The Strong Thing	30	(1)
Scots	31	(1)
To an Unknown Lady	31	(1)
Song and Pain	32	(1)
Purple and Black	32	(1)
West Country	33	(1)
Firelight	34	(1)
The Estaminet	34	(2)
Song	36	(1)
Ballad of the Three Spectres	36	(1)
Communion	37	(1)
Time and the Soldier	38	(1)
Influences	38	(1)
After-Glow	39	(1)
Hail and Farewell	40	(1)
Praise	40	(1)
Winter Beauty	41	(1)
Song of Pain and Beauty	42	(1)
Spring. Rouen, May 1917	42	(3)
June-To-Come	45	(1)
``Hark, Hark, the Lark''	46	(1)
Song at Morning	47	(1)
Trees	48	(1)
Requiem	48	(1)
Requiem	49	(1)
Requiem	49	(4)
Sonnets 1917:
For England	49	(1)
Pain	50	(1)
Servitude	50	(1)
Home-Sickness	51	(1)
England the Mother	51	(2)
WAR'S EMBERS
Title page of first edition	53	(2)
Dedication: To M.M.S.	55	(2)
The Volunteer	57	(1)
The Farm	57	(2)
Omens	59	(1)
Eternal Treasure	60	(1)
Fire in the Dusk	60	(1)
Turmut-Hoeing	61	(1)
In a Ward	62	(1)
Camps	63	(1)
Girl's Song	64	(1)
Solace of Men	64	(1)
Day-boys and Choristers	65	(1)
At Reserve Depot	66	(1)
Toasts and Memories	66	(1)
From the Window	67	(1)
Ypres---Minsterworth	68	(1)
Near Midsummer	69	(1)
Toussaints	70	(1)
The Stone-Breaker	71	(2)
Drifting Leaves	73	(1)
Contrasts	73	(2)
To F.W.H.	75	(1)
The Immortal Hour	75	(1)
To His Love	76	(1)
Migrants	77	(1)
Old Martinmas Eve	78	(1)
After Music	78	(1)
The Target	79	(1)
Twigworth Vicarage	79	(6)
Hospital Pictures:
Ladies of Charity	80	(1)
Dust	81	(1)
``Aberdonian''	82	(1)
Companion---North-east Dugout	82	(1)
The Miner	83	(1)
Upstairs Piano	83	(2)
Hidden Tales	85	(1)
Recompense	86	(1)
The Tryst	87	(1)
The Plain	88	(1)
Rumours of Wars	88	(1)
``On Rest''	89	(2)
Dicky	91	(1)
The Day of Victory	92	(2)
Passionate Earth	94	(1)
The Poplar	95	(1)
Down Commercial Road (Gloucester)	96	(1)
From Omiecourt	97	(1)
Le Coq Francais	97	(1)
The Fisherman of Newnham	98	(1)
The Lock-keeper	99	(1)
The Revellers	100	(1)
``Annie Laurie''	100	(1)
The Battalion is Now on Rest	101	(1)
Photographs	102	(1)
That County	103	(1)
Interval	103	(1)
De Profundis	104	(1)
The Tower	105	(2)
Commentary	107	(40)
Map	108	(1)
The Composition of Severn & Somme	109	(8)
Notes to Severn & Somme	117	(13)
The Composition of War's Embers	130	(4)
Notes to War's Embers	134	(12)
Further Reading	146	(1)
Index of Titles and First Lines	147