Thoughts of New England (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,That Hoare he kept, the Puritan, who tiredOr fired, ...
Ivor Gurney Poems on Man (24 Poems)
Tobacco (Ivor Gurney Poems)
When tobacco came, When Raleigh did first bring inThe unfabled herb, the plant of peace, the kingOf comfort bringers, then ...
Laventie (Ivor Gurney Poems)
One would remember stillMeadows and low hillLaventie was, as to the line and elm rowGrowing through green strength wounded, as ...
Kilns (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Severn has kilns set all along her banksWhere the thin reeds grow and rushes in ranks;And the carts tip rubbish ...
A Wish (Ivor Gurney Poems)
I would hope for the children of West HamWooden-frame houses, square with some-sort stuffCrammed in to keep the wind away ...
Western Sky-Look (Ivor Gurney Poems)
When clouds shake out their sailsBefore delighted gales,I think the sailor-men at sea,Hearing the engine throbbing freeCurse their today's fate ...
To God (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Why have you made life so intolerableAnd set me between four walls, where I am ableNot to escape meals without ...
Encounters (Ivor Gurney Poems)
One comes across the strangest things in walks,Fragment of Abbey tithe barns fixed in modern,With Dutch-sort houses, where the water ...
Of Cruelty (Ivor Gurney Poems)
From the racked substance of the earth comes the plant andThat with heat and the night frost is tortured:To some ...
Beauty (Ivor Gurney Poems)
I cannot live with Beauty out of mind.I search for her and desire her all the day;Beauty, the choicest treasure ...
Apprentices (Ivor Gurney Poems)
We who praise poets with our labouring penAnd justify ourselves with laud of menHave not the right to call our ...
New Year’s Eve (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Aveluy and New Year's eve, and the time as tenderAs if green buds grew. In the low West a slenderStreak ...
The Target (Ivor Gurney Poems)
I shot him, and it had to beOne of us "Twas him or me.'Couln't be helped' and none can blameMe, ...
On Somme (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Suddenly into the still air burst thuddingAnd thudding and cold fear possessed me all,On the gray slopes there, where Winter ...
To The Prussians Of England (Ivor Gurney Poems)
When I remember plain heroic strengthAnd shining virtue shown by Ypres pools,Then read the blither written by knaves for foolsIn ...
The Touchstone – Watching Malvern (Ivor Gurney Poems)
What Malvern is the day is, and its touchstone -Grey velvet, or moon-marked; rich, or bare as bone;One looks towards Malvern and is ...
The Comparison (Ivor Gurney Poems)
What Malvern is the day is, and it's touchstoneGray velvet, or moonmarked; rich, or bare as bone;One looks towards Malvern ...
Afterwards (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Those dreadful evidences of Man's ill-doingThe kindly Mother of all shall soon hide deep,Covering with tender fingers her children asleep,Till ...
There is a man (Ivor Gurney Poems)
There is a man who has swept or rubbed a floorThis morning crying in the Most Holy NameOf God for ...
Pain (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Pain, pain continual; pain unending;Hard even to the roughest, but to thoseHungry for beauty . . . Not the wisest ...
Song of Pain and Beauty: To M.M.S (Ivor Gurney Poems)
O may these days of pain,These wasted-seeming days,Somewhere reflower againWith scent and savour of praise.Draw out of memory all bitternessOf ...
The Square Thing (Ivor Gurney Poems)
At Norton Green the tower stands well off roadAnd is a squareness meaning many things;Nearest to us, the makers had ...
Defiance (Ivor Gurney Poems)
I will not droop my soiled flag,Nor turn a thought on my own shame,Though it be sin without a name,And ...
The Love Song (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Out of the blackthorn edgesI caught a tuneAnd before it could vanish, seizedIt, wrote it down.Gave to a girl, so ...