10.5287/BODLEIAN83C3.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Girls Song [The Tryst]
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
1918-09-01/1918-09-10
2011-11-30 23:44:43.848988
2011
ww1-7235
Notebook
Manuscript in pencil with corrections in ink and pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem here titled 'Girls Song' but which was later to be titled 'The Tryst'. Under the title given here the poem was sent to Marion Scott in a letter of 10 September 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.