A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad
A Gloucestershire Lad
by F. W. Harvey
Fourth Impression
London Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1917
First Impression, September 1916.
Second Impression, October 1916.
Third Impression, January 1917.
Fourth Impression, March 1917.
All rights reserved.
TO ALL COMRADES OF MINE WHO LIE DEAD IN FOREIGN FIELDS FOR LOVE OF ENGLAND, OR WHO LIVE TO PROSECUTE THE WAR FOR ANOTHER ENGLAND
Most of these poems were written at the Front, and appeared in the Fifth Gloucester Gazette —the first paper ever published from the trenches.
The author was then a Lance-Corporal in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and as such gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal in August, 1915.
F. W. Harvey
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
A SONG OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
BALLADE OF THE RICH HEART
SONG OF MINSTERWORTH PERRY
A GLOUCESTERSHIRE WISH AT EASTERTIDE
SONG OF THE ROAD
PIPER’S WOOD
BALLADE OF RIVER SAILING
SONG OF MINSTERWORTH
CRICKET: THE CATCH
WONDERS
TRIOLET
TRIOLET
WHAT GOD SAID
TO HIS MAID
BALLADE OF DAMNABLE THINGS
SONG OF HEALTH
GRATITUDE
THE SOLDIER SPEAKS
A PRESENT FROM FLANDERS
IF WE RETURN
A PEOPLE RENEWED
THE AWAKENING
THE RETURN
LAND OF HEART’S DELIGHT
GONNEHEM
THE REST FARM
BALLADE OF BEELZEBUB, GOD OF FLIES
TO THE KAISER
ROBERT HERRICK SOLILOQUIZES ON THE C.O.
THE THREE PADRES
WALT WHITMAN DESCRIBES MAJOR W.
SERGEANT FINCH
C COMPANY COOK
EPITAPH
SONNET
THE FIRST SPRING DAY
DEFIANCE
THE ORCHARDS, THE SEA, AND THE GUNS
DYING IN SPRING
VICTORY
DEATH THE REVEALER
F. W. H.
POETRY
PROSE POEMS
1. HEAVEN
2. THE MOTH
3. THE ARTIST
4. THE WINDOW GLASS
5. IN THE FIELD OF TIME
6. BLUE GRASS
7. THE POET
8. SORROW
9. THE MIRACLE
10. FAITH
11. TIME—THE HORSE
12. THE REBUILDING OF REALITY
13. THE TOKEN
