10.5287/bodleian85h.1
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford
Laventie
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
2011-11-30 23:51:18.315581
2011-11-30 23:51:18.621096
Dataset
ww1-7497
Notebook
1
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A1d00eebb-8fed-46ad-8e38-45dbdb4b224c
Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Various versions of the poem exist, including a manuscript draft in the green manuscript exercise book 64.3, are longer. The version show here ends at line 44. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.