“His wiles were witty and his fame far known,
Every king's daughter sought him for her own,
Yet he was nothing to be won or lost.
All lands to him were Ithaca: love-tossed
He loathed the fraud, yet would not bed alone.”

"Ulysses" from Poems 1930-1933 (1933)
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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