Laventie

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'.

艾弗·格尼（Ivor Gurney）手写的钢笔手稿。该诗存在多个版本，其中包括绿色练习本手稿64.3中的草稿版本，这些版本篇幅更长。此处展示的版本截止到第44行。出自一本粉色斑驳硬壳练习本。内封面上题有“致C·罗杰斯小姐的音乐作品……致圣茨伯里教授的诗歌 / 巴斯”。内封底题有“我不需要家 / 我渴求死亡”。