'The Day' [Broadside poem.]

Chappell (Henry)

'The Day' [Broadside poem.]

Description: single sheet, red and blue line borders, a couple of ink-spots to rear showing through at margin of text, 8vo, the borders nicked and creased in places with the odd short closed tear, war stamp 'Fighting for "Peace with Honour"' tipped in at head, good

Publication Details: [1914]

Notes: First printed in the Daily Express, August 1914 - the poet gained the name of 'the Bath Railway Poet' from his day-job as a railway porter, as the introductory text relates, hazarding that he might also attain 'the rank of a national poet'. This, his best-known poem, is an upbraiding of their adversaries for their war-mongering.