Ivor Gurney Poems

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11.
Half Dead

Half dead with sheer tiredness, wakened quick at night •
With dysentry pangs, going blind among sleepers
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12.
Requiem

Requiem

Pour out your light, O stars, and do not hold
Your loveliest shining from earth’s outworn shell
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13.
On Somme

Suddenly into the still air burst thudding
And thudding and cold fear possessed me all,
On the gray slopes there, where Winter in sullen brooding
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14.
Strange Hells

There are strange Hells within the minds War made
Not so often, not so humiliating afraid
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15.
The Bohemians

Certain people would not clean their buttons,
Nor polish buckles after latest fashions,
Preferred their hair long, putties comfortable,
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16.
Poem For The End

So the last poem is laid flat in its place,
And Crickley with Crucifix Comer leaves from my face
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17.
Thoughts Of New England

Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,
Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,
That Hoare he kept, the Puritan, who tired
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18.
Longford Dawns

Of course not all the watchers of the dawn
See Severn mists like forced-march mists withdraw
London has darkness changing into light
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19.
Mist On Meadows

Mist lies heavy on English meadows
As ever in Ypres, but the friendliness
Here is greater in full field and hedge shadow.
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20.
Common Things

The dearness of common things -
Beech wood, tea, plate-shelves,
And the whole family of crockery -
Wood-axes, blades, helves.
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