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Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928 / London / England)
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She was born in Bloomsbury, London the daughter of the architect Frederick Mew, who designed Hampstead town hall. Her father died in 1898 without maki .. more >>
16 poems of Charlotte Mew
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  ''Because all night you have not turned to us or spoken
It is time for you to wake;''
Charlotte Mew (1870-1928), British poet. Beside the Bed (l. 12-13). . . Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxf...
 
  ''This is only a most piteous pretense of sleep!''
Charlotte Mew (1870-1928), British poet. Beside the Bed (l. 17). . . Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford...
 
  ''And if I may not walk in th' old ways and look on
th' old faces
I wud sooner sleep.''
Charlotte Mew (1870-1928), British poet. Old Shepherd's Prayer (l. 17-19). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin,...
 
  ''An' him no more to me nor me to him
Than the wind goin' over my hand.''
Charlotte Mew (1870-1928), British poet. Sea Love (l. 7-8). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxf...
 
  ''She does the work about the house
As well as most, but like a mouse:
Happy enough to chat and play
With birds and rabbits and such as they,
So long as men-folk keep away.''
Charlotte Mew (1870-1928), British poet. The Farmer's Bride (l. 20-24). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed...
 
  ''Oh! my God! the down,
The soft young down of her, the brown,
The brown of her—her eyes, her hair, her hair . . .''
Charlotte Mew (1870-1928), British poet. The Farmer's Bride (l. 44-46). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed...

 
 
 
 
 
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