Gloucestershire Friends: Poems From a German Prison Camp
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Fourth Impression
A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad
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“The secret of Mr. Harvey’s power is that he says what other English lads in Flanders want to say and cannot.... This modest little volume has real charm, and not a little depth of thought and beauty. It contains far more real poetry than many a volume ten times its length.”—Bishop Frodsham in The Saturday Review .
“A poet of power and a subtle distinction.... This little collection of his poems, which has a Preface by his Commanding Officer, will give him a high place in the Sidneian company of soldier-poets.”—E. B. O. in The Morning Post .
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.
Gloucestershire Friends: Poems from a German Prison Camp
by F. W. Harvey Author of “A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad”
Introduction by the Right Rev. Bishop Frodsham Canon Residentiary of Gloucester
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 3 Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C.2. 1917
First published in 1917 All rights reserved
F. W. Harvey
Gloucestershire Friends
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CLOUD MESSENGERS
LONELINESS
AUTUMN IN PRISON
WHAT WE THINK OF
PRISONERS
THE HATEFUL ROAD
ENGLISH FLOWERS IN A FOREIGN GARDEN
THE BOND
A CHRISTMAS WISH
CHRISTMAS IN PRISON
TO THE OLD YEAR
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
A RONDEL OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
THE LITTLE ROAD
SONNET
THE DEAD
THE SLEEPERS
BALLAD OF ARMY PAY
TO THE DEVIL ON HIS APPALLING DECADENCE
TO THE UNKNOWN NURSE
THE HORSES
MOTHER AND SON
1. TIMMY TAYLOR AND THE RATS
4. SETH BEMOANS THE OLDEST INHABITANT
5. A RIVER, A PIG, AND BRAINS
6. MARTHA BAZIN ON MARRIAGE
1. LITTLE ABEL GOES TO CHURCH
2. DELIGHTS
3. THE BOY WITH LITTLE BARE TOES
THE WIND IN TOWN TREES
VILLANELLE
KOSSOVO DAY
A PHILOSOPHY
CONSOLATOR AFFLICTORUM
RECOGNITION
ON OVER BRIDGE AT EVENING
PASSION
A COMMON PETITION
AN ADVENTURE WITH GOD
THE STRANGER
THE BUGLER