Severn & Somme
by Ivor Gurney
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About This Book
Ivor Bertie Gurney was born in Gloucester on 28th August 1890. A chorister at Gloucester cathedral Ivor began to compose music at 14 before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 1911. Noted for his enormous potential he was equally thought by many to be un-teachable. His studies were interrupted by World War I and his enlistment with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was wounded in April 1917. He returned to duty but was gassed a few months later. After his release from hospital he was posted to Seaton Delaval, a mining village in Northumberland. His first volume of poetry, Sev...
Chapters (76)
- SEVERN & SOMME
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- SEVERN AND SOMME
- TO CERTAIN COMRADES (E. S. AND J. H.)
- 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
- REQUIEM
- REQUIEM
- SONNETS 1917
- 1. FOR ENGLAND
- 2. PAIN
- 3. SERVITUDE
- 4. HOME-SICKNESS
- 5. ENGLAND THE MOTHER
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