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HOSPITAL PICTURES N°1 – THE ABERDONIAN
A soldier looked at me with blue-hawk eyes, With kindly glances sorrow had made wise And till all I’d ever read in books Melted to ashes in his burning looks. And poets I’d despise and craft of pen If, while he told his coloured wander-tales Of Glasgow, Ypres, sea mist, spouting whales, (Alive past words or power of writing men) My heart had not exulted in his brave Air of the wild woodland and sea-wave. Or if, with each new sentence from his tongue My high-triumphing spirit had not sung As in some April when the world was young. 1919, War’s Embers
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| IVOR GURNEY ![]() Source ■ Voir aussi ▼ → (sur le site des éditions Alidades) une notice bio-bibliographique de Sarah Montin (en français) sur Ivor Gurney (+ deux autres poèmes) → (sur litteraturebritanniquedelagrandeguerre.fr) une page sur Ivor Gurney [PDF] |
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