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Frances Cornford
4 quotes
“A young Apollo, golden-haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life.”
Frances Cornford (1886–1960) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Youth", line 1; from Poems (Hampstead: Priory Press, 1910) p. 15; on Rupert Brooke
“O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breast of doves And shivering-sweet to the touch? O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much?”
Frances Cornford (1886–1960) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train", from Poems (Hampstead: Priory Press, 1910) p. 20
“Whoso maintains that I am humbled now (Who wait the Awful Day) is still a liar; I hope to meet my Maker brow to brow And find my own the higher.”
Frances Cornford (1886–1960) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph for a Reviewer", line 1; from Collected Poems (London: Cresset Press, 1954) p. 112
“I ran out in the morning, when the air was clean & new, And all the grass was glittering, & grey with autumn dew; I ran out to the apple-tree and pull’d an apple down, And all the bells were ringing in the grey old town.Down in the town off the bridges and the grass They are sweeping up the leaves to let the people pass, Sweeping up the old leaves, golden-reds and browns, Whilst the men go to lecture with the wind in their gowns.”
Frances Cornford (1886–1960) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autumn Morning at Cambridge"; from Poems (1910), p. 1