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Ivor Gurney's Poetry, by first line

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  • Strange Service
    Little did I dream, England, that you bore me
    Under the Cotswold Rills beside the water meadows
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • To The Poet Before Battle
    Now, youth, the hour of thy dread passion comes;
    Thy lovely things must all be laid away;
    14 lines
  • To Certain Comrades (E.S. and J.H.)
    Living we loved you, yet withheld our praises
    Before your faces.
    27 lines
  • Afterwards
    Those dreadful evidences of Man's ill-doing
    The kindly Mother of all shall soon hide deep,
    14 lines
  • Yesterday Lost
    What things I have missed today,
    I know very well,
    16 lines
  • Water Colours
    The trembling water glimpsed
    through dark tangle
    19 lines
  • Walking Song
    The miles go sliding by
    Under my steady feet,
    16 lines
  • Strange Hells
    There are strange Hells within the minds War made
    Not so often, not so humiliating afraid
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Soft Rain Beats Upon My Windows
    Soft rain beats upon my windows
    Hardly hammering
    10 lines
  • To England--A Note
    I watched the boys of England where they went
    Through mud and water to do appointed things.
    14 lines
  • Snow
    There's not a sound tonight
    I look out and am beaten
    25 lines, 2 comments
  • First Time In
    After the dread tales and red yams of the Line
    Anything might have come to us; but the divine
    16 lines
  • Ballad Of The Three Spectres
    As I went up by Ovillers
    In mud and water cold to the knee,
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • The Square Thing
    At Norton Green the tower stands well off road
    And is a squareness meaning many things;
    13 lines
  • Old thought
    Autumn that name of creeper falling and tea-time loving,
    Was once for me the thought of High Cotswold noon-air,
    7 lines
  • New Year's Eve
    Aveluy and New Year's eve, and the time as tender
    As if green buds grew. In the low West a slender
    15 lines
  • Personages
    Beauty and bright fame go not together, I
    Bought oranges to-day from Queen Deirdre.
    12 lines
  • Hedges
    Bread and cheese grow wild in the green time,
    Children laugh and pick it, and I make my rhyme
    8 lines
  • The Bohemians
    Certain people would not clean their buttons,
    Nor polish buckles after latest fashions,
    16 lines, 5 comments
  • Darkness Has Cheating Swiftness
    Darkness has cheating swiftness
    When the eyes rove
    13 lines
  • Lovely Playthings
    Dawn brings lovely playthings to the mind,
    But sunset fights and goes down in battle blind.
    8 lines
  • London Dawn
    Dawn comes up on London,
    And night's undone.
    24 lines
  • Ben Johnson
    Few have praised the master of masters, who but I
    Have right, that followed example, and did not lie
    21 lines
  • Sonnet. September 1922
    Fierce indignation is best understood by those
    Who have time or no fear, or a hope in its real good
    14 lines
  • Of Cruelty
    From the racked substance of the earth comes the plant and
    That with heat and the night frost is tortured:
    17 lines
  • Thoughts of New England
    Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,
    Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,
    99 lines
  • The Change
    Gone bare the fields now, and the starlings gather,
    Whirr above stubble and soft changing hedges.
    13 lines
  • Had I A Song
    Had I a song
    I would sing it here
    8 lines
  • Half dead
    Half dead with sheer tiredness, wakened quick at night •
    With dysentry pangs, going blind among sleepers
    10 lines
  • To His Love
    He's gone, and all our plans
    Are useless indeed.
    22 lines, 1 comment
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