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Verses of a V.A.D - Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain
Verses of a V.A.D
EAN 8596547363910
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
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, out of
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