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    Verses of a V.A.D
    Verses of a V.A.D
    Verses of a V.A.D
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    Verses of a V.A.D

    By Vera Brittain

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    'Verses of a V.A.D' is a collection of poems written by Vera Brittain. She was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist, and pacifist. The poems featured are based on Brittain's experience serving as a nurse in World War I, and include the following titles: 'To A Fallen Idol', 'The Only Son', 'Looking Westward', 'May Morning', 'The Two Travellers'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 9, 2019
    ISBN4064066216320
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      Verses of a V.A.D - Vera Brittain

      Vera Brittain

      Verses of a V.A.D

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066216320

      Table of Contents

      FOREWORD

      AUGUST 1914

      ST. PANCRAS STATION, AUGUST 1915

      TO A FALLEN IDOL

      TO MONSEIGNEUR

      THE ONLY SON

      PERHAPS——

      A MILITARY HOSPITAL

      LOOKING WESTWARD

      THEN AND NOW

      MAY MORNING

      THE TWO TRAVELLERS

      ROUNDEL

      THE SISTERS BURIED AT LEMNOS

      IN MEMORIAM: G.R.Y.T.

      A PARTING WORD

      SIC TRANSIT——

      TO THEM

      OXFORD REVISITED

      THAT WHICH REMAINETH

      THE GERMAN WARD

      THE TROOP-TRAIN

      TO MY WARD-SISTER

      TO ANOTHER SISTER

      VENGEANCE IS MINE

      WAR

      THE LAST POST

      THE ASPIRANT

      FOREWORD

      Table of Contents

      These

      poems, by a writer for whom I have literary hopes, belong very clearly to that new and vigorous type of poetry which has sprung from the stress of the last few years and has its root in things done and suffered rather than in things merely imagined.

      Until lately our very belief in the saying that the poet is born and not made proved that we had completely accepted poetry as coming only from within, spun, as it were,

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