War's Embers

by Ivor Gurney

58 chapters1h 37mEnglish1919

About this book

A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which he served on the Western Front and was wounded by a mustard gas attack, and its aftermath. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Chapters (57)

1The Volunteer

2The Farm

212

3Omens

4Eternal Treasure

5Fire in the Dusk

106

6Turmut-Hoeing

7In a Ward

8Camps

140

9Girl's Song

10Solace of Men

11Day-Boys and Choristers

177

12At Reserve Depot

13Toasts and Memories

14From the Window

15Ypres-Minsterworth

16Near Midsummer

132

17Toussaints

18The Stone Breaker

123

19Drifting Leaves

103

20Contrasts

132

21To F.W.H

22The Immortal Hour

23To His Love

24Migrants

25Old Martinmas Eve

26After Music

27The Target

28Twigworth Vicarage

29Hospital Pictures: 1. Ladies of Charity

110

302. Dust

103

313. "Aberdonian"

324. Companion-North-East Dugout

335. The Miner

346. Upstairs Piano

174

35Hidden Tales

36Recompense

37The Tryst

38The Plain

39Rumours of War

40"On Rest"

312

41Dicky

42The Day of Victory

293

43Passionate Earth

44The Poplar

45Down Commercial Road (Gloucester)

121

46From Omiecourt

47Le Coq Francais

109

48The Fisherman of Newnham

49The Lock-Keeper

136

50The Revellers

51"Annie Laurie"

52The Battalion is Now on Rest

53Photographs

120

54That County

55Interval

56De Profundis

146

57The Tower

133

War's Embers

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