Rainy Midnight (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Long shines the line of wet lamps dark in gleaming,The trees so still felt yet as strength not used,February chills ...
Ivor Gurney Poems (112 Poems)
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 ...
The Hoe Scrapes Earth (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The hoe scrapes earth as fine in grain as sand,I like the swirl of it and the swing in the ...
Hedges (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Bread and cheese grow wild in the green time,Children laugh and pick it, and I make my rhymeFor mere pleasure ...
Darkness Has Cheating Swiftness (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Darkness has cheating swiftnessWhen the eyes roveOpens and shuts in long avenuesThat thought cannot prove.Darkness shuts in and closes,There are ...
Soft Rain Beats Upon My Windows (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Soft rain beats upon my windowsHardly hammeringBut by the great gusts guessed further offUp by the bare moor and brambly ...
The Garden (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The ordered curly and plain cabbagesAre all set out like school-children in rows;In six short weeks shall these no longer ...
Midnight (Ivor Gurney Poems)
There is no sound within the cottage now,But my pen and the sound of long rainHeavy and musical, I must ...
The Miracles (Ivor Gurney Poems)
What things I have missed today, I know very wellBut the seeing of them each new time is miracle,Nothing between ...
Longford Dawns (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Of course not all the watchers of the dawnSee Severn mists like forced-march mists withdrawLondon has darkness changing into lightWith ...
What Evil Coil (Ivor Gurney Poems)
What evil coil of Fate has fastened meWho cannot move to sight, whose bread is sight,And in nothing has more ...
Bach And The Sentry (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Watching the dark my spirit rose in floodOn that most dearest Prelude of my delight.The low-lying mist lifted its hood,The ...
Stars Sliding (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The stars are sliding wanton through trees,The sky is sliding steady over all.Great Bear to Gemini will lose his placeAnd ...
Moments (Ivor Gurney Poems)
I think the loathed minutes one by oneThat tear and then go past are little worthSave nearer to the blindness ...
Drachms + Scruples (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Misery weighed by drachms and scruplesIs but scrawls on a vain page,To cruel masters we are pupils,Escape comes careless with ...
The High Hills have a bitterness (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The high hills have a bitternessNow they are not knownAnd memory is poor enough consolationFor the soul helpless gone.Up in ...
Generations (There are mummers yet on Cotswold) (Ivor Gurney Poems)
There are mummers yet on Cotswold,Though Will Squele he lies low,And men sow wheat on headlandsThat other men see grow.Eyes ...
Kettle-song (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The worry and low murmurOf the black kettle are setAgainst my unquiet achingsAnd vanish, so strong is the fret.Such tangles ...
The Songs I Had (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The songs I had are witheredOr vanished clean,Yet there are bright tracksWhere I have been,And there grow flowersFor other's delight.Think ...
Song (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Only the wandererKnows England's graces,Or can anew see clearFamiliar faces.And who loves joy as heThat dwells in shadows?Do not forget ...
Had I A Song (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Had I a songI would sing it hereFour lined square shapedUtterance dearBut since I have none,Well, regret in verseBefore the ...
April Gale (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The wind frightens my dog, but I bathe in it,Sound, rush, scent of the Spring fields.My dog's hairs are blown ...