Category: Poetry

Gloucestershire Friends: Poems From a German Prison Camp

Harvey, F. W. (Frederick William), 1888-1957; Frodsham, George Horsfall, 1863-1937 [Author of introduction, etc.]· 2 chapters· 7,170 words

“The secret of Mr. Harvey’s power is that he says what other English lads in Flanders want to say and cannot.... This modest little volume has real charm, and not a little depth of thought and beauty. It contains far more real poetry than many a volume ten times its length.”--...

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1. Part 1

“The secret of Mr. Harvey’s power is that he says what other English lads in Flanders want to say and cannot.... This modest little volume has real charm, and not a little depth...

2. Part 2

You put some men inside a trench, and call them infantrie, And make them face ten kinds of hell, and face it cheerfully; And live in holes like rats, with other rats, and lice,...