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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.

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List of poems by Frederick William (FW) Harvey 21 total

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Ducks
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Warning
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To You, Unsung
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The Bond
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Ballade
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To the Unknown Nurse
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Autumn in Prison
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The oldest inhabitant hears far off the drums of death
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A Christmas Wish
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The Bugler
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Solitary Confinement
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A Rondel of Gloucestershire
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In Flanders
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Loneliness
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Christmas in Prison 74 Views
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To The Old Year
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Sonnet
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The Hateful Road
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Ballad of Army Pay
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What we Think of
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To R.E.K.
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