Severn and Somme
Ivor Gurney
Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
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 (1 hr 3 min)
Kapitel
| Preface | 4:11 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| To Certain Comrades | 1:54 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| The Fire Kindled | 1:29 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| To the Poet Before Battle | 1:18 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Maisemore | 1:36 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Afterwards | 1:07 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
| Carol | 1:18 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Strange Service | 1:47 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Serenity | 0:55 | Gelesen von Stefan Von Blon |
| The Signaller's Vision | 1:17 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| The Mother | 0:46 | Gelesen von James K. White |
| To England - A Note | 1:15 | Gelesen von James K. White |
| Bach and the Sentry | 0:56 | Gelesen von James K. White |
| Letters | 1:00 | Gelesen von James K. White |
| Strafe | 0:53 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Acquiescence | 1:09 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Strong Thing | 0:57 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Scots | 1:23 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| To an Unknown Lady | 1:34 | Gelesen von Stefan Von Blon |
| Song and Pain | 0:56 | Gelesen von James K. White |
| Purple and Black | 1:17 | Gelesen von James K. White |
| West Country | 1:12 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Firelight | 1:11 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Estaminet | 2:13 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Song | 0:44 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Ballad of the Three Spectres | 1:26 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Communion | 0:53 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Time and the Soldier | 1:08 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Influences | 1:16 | Gelesen von Stefan Von Blon |
| After-Glow | 1:14 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Hail and Farewell | 1:27 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Praise | 0:30 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Winter Beauty | 1:58 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Song of Pain and Beauty | 1:09 | Gelesen von Yogi McCaw |
| Spring. Rouen, May 1917 | 5:59 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| June-To-Come | 1:03 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| "Hark, Hark, The Lark" | 0:41 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Song at Morning | 1:46 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Trees | 1:05 | Gelesen von Joanna Michal Hoyt |
| Requiem | 1:21 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnets 1917 : 1. For England | 1:25 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| 2. Pain | 1:19 | Gelesen von BenDowling |
| 3. Servitude | 1:08 | Gelesen von BenDowling |
| 4. Home-Sickness | 1:19 | Gelesen von BenDowling |
| 5. England the Mother | 1:24 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |