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Christmas in Prison

Frederick William (FW) Harvey 1888 (Hartpury, Gloucestershire) – 1957 (Yorkley, Gloucestershire)

Outside, white snow
And freezing mire.
The heart of the house
Is a blazing fire !

Even so whatever hags do ride

His outward fortune, withinside

The heart of a man burns Christmastide !

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme XXXX A A A
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 192
Words 34
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 1, 1, 1
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Frederick William (FW) Harvey

Frederick William Harvey DCM, often known as Will Harvey, and dubbed "the Laureate of Gloucestershire", was an English poet, broadcaster and solicitor whose poetry became popular during and after World War I. Harvey was born in 1888 in Hartpury, Gloucestershire, and grew up in Minsterworth. He was educated at the King's School, Gloucester, where he formed a close friendship with Ivor Gurney, and then at Rossall School. Gurney and Herbert Howells, another local composer, would set a number of his poems to music. He started on a legal career, which would always be somewhat tentative; and began to consider conversion to Roman Catholicism. more…

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