Who is Mathilde Blind

Mathilde Blind (born Mathilda Cohen; 21 March 1841 in Mannheim, Germany – 26 November 1896, in London), was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community of artists and writers. By the late 1880s she had become prominent among New Woman writers such as Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), Amy Levy, Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and Katharine Tynan. She was praised by Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Michael Rossetti, Amy Levy, Edith Nesbit, Arthur Symons and Arnold Bennett. Her much-discussed poem The Ascent of Man presents a distinctly feminist response to the Darwinian theory of evolution.

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Mathilde Blind Poems

  • Marriage
    LOVE springs as lightly from the human heart
    As springs the lovely rose upon the brier,
    Which turns the common hedge to floral fire,
    As Love wings Time with rosy-feathered dart. ...
  • The Moon Of Ramadân
    The sunset melts upon the Nile,
    The stony desert glows,
    Beneath heaven's universal smile,
    One burning damask rose; ...
  • Lines Ii
    THOU camest with the coming Spring!
    With swallows, and the murmuring
    Of unloosed waters, with the birth
    Of daisies dimpling the green earth. ...
  • As Many Stars
    AS many stars as are aglow
    Deep in the hollows of the night
    As many as the flowers that blow
    Beneath the kindling light; ...
  • The Dying Dragoman
    Far in the fiery wilderness,
    Beyond the town of Assouan,
    Left languishing in sore distress,
    There lay a dying Dragoman. ...
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Love 91 I Love You 91 Life 75 Heart 71 Light 69 Earth 56 Sun 55 Night 55 White 42 Moon 41


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Brokensleep: including poems from: john agard, vasiliki albedo, andre bagoo, robert bal, liam bates, sally bayley, charlie baylis, mathilde blind, jane burn, wendy cope, hannah copley, lesley curwen, rishi dastidar, olga dermott-bond, imtiaz dharker, charles dibdin,
Thetls: 'mathilde had a desultory and informal education, as young women did in those days, but she learnt much through the family salon in st john’s wood, which entertained mazzini and garibaldi and many pre-raphaelite artists, progressive thinkers and émigrés.'
Proverbialsoups: not liberty but duty is the condition of existence. mathilde blind
Brucearthurs4: not exactly sure what this beast is supposed to be; maybe a hairy dragon? whatever it is, it looks like it's having a really rough day. from an uncredited page ornament in tarantella: a romance, 1885, written by mathilde blind.
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