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