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Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
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Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (27 February 1857 – 9 February 1944), born Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.
Quotes
We cannot all be great poets; but the humblest, if they be sincere, may give a genuine pleasure.
Preface, The Collected Poems Lyrical and Narrative (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), p. viii.
You hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly?A stranger hither? So am I,And (sooth to say) I wonder whyWe either of us came!
"To a Dragon-fly", in The Collected Poems Lyrical and Narrative (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), p. 70.
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