“I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride”

— Vita Sackville-West

"Sailing Ships", p. 162
Collected Poems (1933)
Context: While many a lovely ship below sailed by
On unknown errand, kempt and leisurely;
And after each, oh, after each, my heart
Fled forth, as, watching from the Downs apart,
I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride…

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English writer and gardener 1892–1962

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