Forest of Dean Poet F W Harvey (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, August 20, 2006, 09:24 (6662 days ago) @ willow

I'm sure the works of FW Harvey - the Gloucestershire Lad -would provide a passage or two for you to consider. Your posts have suggested a certain "homesick" feeling so perhaps the following might be appropriate.

In Flanders
by F. W. Harvey

I'm homesick for my hills again -
My hills again!
To see above the Severn plain,
Unscabbarded against the sky,
The blue high blade of Cotswold lie;
The giant clouds go royally
By jagged Malvern with a train
Of shadows. Where the land is low
Like a huge imprisoning O
I hear a heart that's sound and high,
I hear the heart within me cry:
"I'm homesick for my hills again -
My hills again!
Cotswold or Malvern, sun or rain!
My hills again!"

or from "My Village"

"...I love the tangled orchards blowing so bright
with clouds of apple blossom and the red
ripe fruit that hangs a shining in the blue air
like rubies hanging in the orchard's hair"