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How long ago Hector took off his plume,
Not wanting that his little son should cry,
Then kissed his sad Andromache goodbye —
And now we three in Euston waiting-room.


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A young Apollo, golden-haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
For the long littleness of life.


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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?


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The wrong you have done is very quiet: just
Not being there.


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More piercing, more unbearable than blame
Is to be understood.


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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.


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Your youth is like a water-wetted stone
Bright with a beauty that is not its own.


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Frances Cornford

Born: March 30, 1886
Died: August 19, 1960 (aged 74)
Bio: Frances Crofts Cornford was an English poet in the Georgian tradition. She belonged to the Darwin-Wedgwood family.

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