Henry Treece
Who is Henry Treece
Henry Treece (22 December 1911 – 10 June 1966) was a British poet and writer who also worked as a teacher and editor. He wrote a range of works but is mostly remembered as a writer of children's historical novels.
Life and work
Treece was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and educated at the town's grammar school. After graduating from the University of Birmingham in 1933, he went into teaching with his first placement being at Tynemouth School. In 1939 he married Mary Woodman and settled in Lincolnshire as a teacher at Barton-upon-Humber Grammar School. Their son, Richard Treece, became a musician with Help Yourself and other rock bands.He published five volumes of poetry: 38 Poems (London: Fortune Press, 1940), then by Faber & Faber; Invitation and Warning 194...
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Henry Treece Poems
- Ages
In that stone head, obscenity
Has been preserved a thousand years;
A bible-leaf of families
Have shuddered at the pointed ears.
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- Love Poem
Let us go out in the rain, love,
And keep these memories clean;
Then stand beneath the sheltering eave
To fall in love with the moon.
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- The Old Ones
The old ones knew that black was hate,
White garment purity and red one sin;
They spoke the language of the trees
And opened veins to let love in.
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- Sympathy With Stone
Blood-red the lily, and the questing horn
Shrivelling in silence;
Crumbling the archway, tumbled stone
Trembling at violence
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- Lincolnshire Bomber Station
Across the road the homesick Romans made
The ground-mist thickens to a milky shroud;
Through flat, damp fields call sheep, mourning their dead
In cracked and timeless voices, unutterably sad,
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- Aquestingvole: hard to say. mums old school text books lay around - but i don’t actually remember the titles.
probably fighting men by henry treece (kids book) or the viking achievement by foote & wilson.
- Doctorow: the pagan queen by henry treece
avon books t-363, 1959
cover by ernest “darcy” chiriacka
- Mzodian: 4 of 5 stars to red queen, white queen by henry treece
- Sfencyclopedia: arthur train & jack lovejoy died and henry treece & charles de lint were born on this day, so here are some of their covers (artist: frank d. mcsherry, jr., charles keeping, unknown and john howe). the first is for a 1958 edition of arthur train's "the moon maker":
- Sfencyclopedia: ... george mann (b.1978)
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