10.5287/BODLEIAN8B3L.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The Lock-Keeper
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
2011-11-30 23:39:42.995037
2011-11-30 23:39:43.724114
2011
ww1-7057
Leaf
Manuscript in black ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exists in notebooks and letters. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). A shorter draft of the poem appears in 'War's Embers' (1919) with the inscription 'To the memory of Edward Thomas'.