Severn and Somme
Ivor Gurney
45 chapters · 1 h 4 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, Joanna Michal Hoyt, Larry Wilson, Stefan Von Blon, mleigh, James K. White and others
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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
Chapters
1 Preface 4 min 2 To Certain Comrades 2 min 3 The Fire Kindled 1 min 4 To the Poet Before Battle 1 min 5 Maisemore 2 min 6 Afterwards 1 min 7 Carol 1 min 8 Strange Service 2 min 9 Serenity 1 min 10 The Signaller's Vision 1 min 11 The Mother 1 min 12 To England - A Note 1 min 13 Bach and the Sentry 1 min 14 Letters 1 min 15 Strafe 1 min 16 Acquiescence 1 min 17 The Strong Thing 1 min 18 Scots 1 min 19 To an Unknown Lady 2 min 20 Song and Pain 1 min 21 Purple and Black 1 min 22 West Country 1 min 23 Firelight 1 min 24 The Estaminet 2 min 25 Song 1 min 26 Ballad of the Three Spectres 1 min 27 Communion 1 min 28 Time and the Soldier 1 min 29 Influences 1 min 30 After-Glow 1 min 31 Hail and Farewell 1 min 32 Praise 1 min 33 Winter Beauty 2 min 34 Song of Pain and Beauty 1 min 35 Spring. Rouen, May 1917 6 min 36 June-To-Come 1 min 37 Hark, Hark, The Lark 1 min 38 Song at Morning 2 min 39 Trees 1 min 40 Requiem 1 min 41 Sonnets 1917 : 1. For England 1 min 42 2. Pain 1 min 43 3. Servitude 1 min 44 4. Home-Sickness 1 min 45 5. England the Mother 1 min
