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Severn and Somme

Severn and Somme

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Number of Chapters: 45

Length: 01 hour and 03 minutes

Language: English

The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area around the River Somme in northern France with the natural beauty of the valley of the River Severn in his native Gloucestershire. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

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Preface (Alan Mapstone)
To Certain Comrades (Alan Mapstone)
The Fire Kindled (Alan Mapstone)
To the Poet Before Battle (Alan Mapstone)
Maisemore (Alan Mapstone)
Afterwards (Joanna Michal Hoyt)
Carol (Larry Wilson)
Strange Service (Alan Mapstone)
Serenity (Stefan Von Blon)
The Signaller's Vision (mleigh)
The Mother (James K. White)
To England - A Note (James K. White)
Bach and the Sentry (James K. White)
Letters (James K. White)
Strafe (mleigh)
Acquiescence (Larry Wilson)
The Strong Thing (Alan Mapstone)
Scots (mleigh)
To an Unknown Lady (Stefan Von Blon)
Song and Pain (James K. White)
Purple and Black (James K. White)
West Country (Alan Mapstone)
Firelight (Larry Wilson)
The Estaminet (Alan Mapstone)
Song (mleigh)
Ballad of the Three Spectres (Alan Mapstone)
Communion (Larry Wilson)
Time and the Soldier (Alan Mapstone)
Influences (Stefan Von Blon)
After-Glow (Larry Wilson)
Hail and Farewell (mleigh)
Praise (Larry Wilson)
Winter Beauty (Alan Mapstone)
Song of Pain and Beauty (Yogi McCaw)
Spring. Rouen, May 1917 (Alan Mapstone)
June-To-Come (Larry Wilson)
"Hark, Hark, The Lark" (Larry Wilson)
Song at Morning (Larry Wilson)
Trees (Joanna Michal Hoyt)
Requiem (Alan Mapstone)
Sonnets 1917 : 1. For England (Alan Mapstone)
2. Pain (BenDowling)
3. Servitude (BenDowling)
4. Home-Sickness (BenDowling)
5. England the Mother (Alan Mapstone)
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