Gloucestershire Friends [Illustration] BY THE SAME AUTHOR _Fourth Impression_ A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad Cloth 2_s._ net; paper 1_s._ 6_d._ net. “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_. “A poet of power and a subtle distinction.... This little collection of his poems, which has a Preface by his Commanding Officer, will give him a high place in the Sidneian company of soldier-poets.”--E. B. O. in _The Morning Post_. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. Gloucestershire Friends: Poems from a German Prison Camp by F. W. Harvey Author of “A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad” [Illustration] Introduction by the Right Rev. BISHOP FRODSHAM Canon Residentiary of Gloucester London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 3 Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C.2. 1917 _First published in 1917_ _All rights reserved_ TO THE BEST OF ALL GLOUCESTERSHIRE FRIENDS MY MOTHER CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION, BY BISHOP FRODSHAM 11 CLOUD MESSENGERS 13 LONELINESS 14 AUTUMN IN PRISON 15 WHAT WE THINK OF 16 PRISONERS 17 SONNET, TO ONE KILLED IN ACTION 18 THE HATEFUL ROAD 19 ENGLISH FLOWERS IN A FOREIGN GARDEN 20 THE BOND 21 TO YOU--UNSUNG 22 A CHRISTMAS WISH 23 TO KATHLEEN 24 CHRISTMAS IN PRISON 25 TO THE OLD YEAR 26 BALLADE 27 BALLADE 29 SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 31 A RONDEL OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 32 THE LITTLE ROAD 33 SONNET 34 ENGLAND, IN MEMORY 35 THE DEAD 36 THE SLEEPERS 37 COMRADES O’ MINE 38 TO R. E. K. 39 BALLAD OF ARMY PAY 40 TO THE DEVIL ON HIS APPALLING DECADENCE 43 AT AFTERNOON TEA 44 TO THE UNKNOWN NURSE 45 THE HORSES 46 MOTHER AND SON 47 GROWN UPS: 1. TIMMY TAYLOR AND THE RATS 48