Flora Thompson (1876–1947) English author and poet
From On Reading a Posthumous book Gillian Lindsay -Biography of Flora Thompson 1990 ISBN 9781873855539
Poetry
“The poet walked alone in a cold late rain,
And thought his grief was like the crying of sea-birds;
For his lover was dead, he never would love again.”
The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
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