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  • To A Lady Seen From The Train
    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, ...
  • Autumn Evening
    The Shadows flickering, the daylight dying,
    And I upon the old red sofa lying,
    The great brown shadows leaping up the wall,
    The sparrows twittering; and that is all. ...
  • The Guitarist Tunes Up
    With what attentive courtesy he bent
    Over his instrument;
    Not as a lordly conquerer who could
    Command both wire and wood, ...
  • The New-born Baby's Song
    When I was twenty inches long,
    I could not hear the thrush's song;
    The radiance of the morning skies
    Was most displeasing to my eyes. ...
  • The Watch
    I wakened on my hot, hard bed;
    Upon the pillow lay my head;
    Beneath the pillow I could hear
    My little watch was ticking clear. ...
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Yclbritain: john cornford was one of the first british volunteers for the spanish civil war. he was born in cambridge on 27 december 1915, to francis, a trinity college classics professor, and frances cornford, a renowned poet and granddaughter of charles darwin. john became a... (1/12)
Adzebill: incidentally francis cornford married darwin's granddaughter, who was named frances, so amongst the rest of the family francis and frances went by their initials: fmc and fcc.
Mbudha: a fragment of empedocles' by frances darwin cornford, (1886 – 1960) i heard a thrush sing in the flowering may, all in the morning cool, whilst joan and jack ran to the river to play and found a silvery salmon in a pool.
Davidcranmerun1: joseph l. henderson - wikipedia in 1934, he married helena cornford, a daughter of francis cornford and frances (née darwin), herself granddaughter of charles darwin. she was 10 years younger than he but predeceased him by 13 years.
Salisburymuseum: 18 nov 7.30pm: william pryor, direct descendent of charles darwin and gwen raverat's grandson, will talk about how darwin genes helped cousins gwen raverat, ralph vaughan williams and frances cornford record the melancholy and humanity of their zeitgeist. details on website.
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