A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad

by F. W. Harvey

Most of these poems were written at the Front, and appeared in the Fifth Gloucester Gazette—the first paper ever published from the trenches. The author was then a Lance-Corporal in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and as such gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal in August, 1915. The poems are written by a soldier and reflect a ..

Gloucestershire Friends

by F. W. Harvey

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.Bishop Frodsham in The Saturday Review.The poems are all short—too short. Lie..

Farewell

by F. W. Harvey

In spite of all the soulful utterances of people comfortably off, economic independence remains the first condition of happiness. This is not to say that people aren’t great fools for preferring law to literature. It is rather to imply that a poet who can do both is a fool if he does not...