La Gorgues (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The long night, the short sleep, and La Gorgues to wander,So be the Fates were kind and our Commander;With a ...
The long night, the short sleep, and La Gorgues to wander,So be the Fates were kind and our Commander;With a ...
Through miles of mud we travelled, and by sick valleys-The Valley of Death at last - most evil alleys,To Grandcourt ...
In the penumbra of an afternoon, I dream.Come to visit me the fatigues of the day,The deceased of the year, ...
THE trees have now hid at the edge of the hurstThe spot where the ruins decayOf the cottage, where Will ...
Having consider'd thus what's to be done,The hazards, hardships, and the risque you run,Consider with what strength you are endow'd,What ...
Over the yearsI've stored up in my heartAll dawns and forenoons,Woods and mountains, plains and streams,The tropics and exotic flowers ...
A brazen Pot, by scouring vext, With Beef and Pudding still perplext,Resolv'd t' attempt a nobler Life,Urging the Jugg to ...
Fair Youth! who wish the Wars may cease, We own you better form'd for Peace. Nor Pallas you, nor Mars ...
IN vain the sprightly sun renews his course,Climbs up th' ascending signs and leads the day,While long embattled clouds repel ...
"A CONSTANCY in love I'll prize, And be to beauty true: And doat on all the lovely eyes, ...
It was the incongruity the foreign color, out of place sand camouflage on the Humvee merging with me, on the ...
One thousand more of our best and brightest our nation's treasure, spent in the streets, in the dust of that ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Fair Youth! who wish the Wars may cease, We own you better form'd for Peace. Nor Pallas you, nor Mars ...
Breathe from the gentle south, O Lord, And cheer me from the north; Blow on the treasures of thy word, ...
I'd heard fool-heroes brag of where they'd been, With stories of the glories that they'd seen. But you, good simple ...
The summer hums. The afternoon fatigues; she breathed her crisp white dress distractedly and put into it that sharply etched ...
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Beautiful Ancient City of Perth, One of the grandest on the earth, With your stately mansions and streets so clean, ...
At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time, When far within the spirit's hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the ...
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