Frances Cornford Quotes

Frances Crofts Cornford was an English poet; because of the similarity of her first name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC". Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank". Wikipedia  

✵ 30. March 1886 – 19. August 1960
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Famous Frances Cornford Quotes

“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

"Epitaph for a Reviewer", line 1; from Collected Poems (London: Cresset Press, 1954) p. 112.

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

Frances Cornford

"Youth", line 1; from Poems (Hampstead: Priory Press, 1910) p. 15; on Rupert Brooke.

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